The skyscraper-studded Los Angeles skyline is emblematic of the growth and diversification of the city’s enterprises. That growth is paralleled by the story of a residential plaster-and-lath specialty contractor founded in the city 80 years ago that now provides commercial interior and exterior wall construction and theming-finish services for a broad range of project types in the largest markets in California: Los Angeles, the Bay Area and San Diego.
The company started by George Raymond—now known as the Raymond Group—is an 800-employee firm that still is owned and run by the founder’s descendants. And not only has it risen to third in ENR’s national ranking of wall and ceiling specialists, but it also has been selected as ENR California’s Specialty Contractor of the Year.