Technology management, consulting and outsourcing company Aldridge and Dallas-based managed service provider (MSP) Twist Solutions are joining forces to form one of the largest IT providers in Texas.

Aldridge this week announced it has acquired Twist, and together, the combined entity will serve customers in Austin, Dallas and Houston.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but Aldridge Vice President Mark Leary pointed out that there were several reasons his company acquired Twist.

“It’s important to quickly grow our branch offices to be at ‘critical mass’ size to ensure we have all the resources our clients need and to, frankly, be big enough to weather storms and to overcome the normal obstacles of being an IT services firm,” he told MSPmentor. “Second, Twist is a ‘pure-play’ managed service provider … This makes [Twist] very easy to integrate into the Aldridge team.”

Kevin Trottier, Twist’s CEO, added that he believes Aldridge provides “the perfect match” to satisfy the increasingly complex demands of his company’s customers.

Twist represents Aldridge’s fourth acquisition in the past year; Aldridge previously purchased Houston-based MSP IS Support last June and also established a foothold in the Dallas/Fort Worth market after it bought The Harding Group’s IT services division in July 2013.

Leary noted that managed services are “the core” of Aldridge’s offerings, and his company could explore additional managed services acquisitions in the future.

“Today’s client prospects demand managed services and that’s what we provide,” he said. “We are either looking for companies to acquire that are already good at managed services and that can integrate with what we are doing, or companies that don’t yet have a strong managed services offering and that have a pool of clients who are ready to give managed services a try.”

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