– Bill Narozanick in the industry. Today, Al leads by Bill’ s guiding principle of“ Seek perfection, accept nothing less than excellence”. He is joined by Liam Narozanick, who recently rejoined the company as Vice President after working in finance, to detail the organization’ s history, evolution, and expertise in the construction industry.
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“ Seek perfection, accept nothing less than excellence”
– Bill Narozanick in the industry. Today, Al leads by Bill’ s guiding principle of“ Seek perfection, accept nothing less than excellence”. He is joined by Liam Narozanick, who recently rejoined the company as Vice President after working in finance, to detail the organization’ s history, evolution, and expertise in the construction industry.
Pivotal partnerships
Since its early days, American Athletic has come a long way and grown through several key partnerships, as Liam explains.“ Initially, Bill was focused on smaller facilities, including parking lots, running tracks, and athletic fields. By aggressively pursuing the sports facility market, he positioned American Athletic for the larger public bid market. Eventually, Bill realized he could carve a successful niche by being vertically integrated, allowing him to win larger, more sophisticated athletic facilities. In the late 1980s, he won his first state-of-the-art track job. From there, American Athletic’ s expansion into running tracks took off and, after partnering with Southwest Recreational Industries, Inc., the largest track surfacing business in the US at the time, Bill and American Athletic quickly became their go-to paving partner. This empowered the company to grow into one of the largest running track construction and repair companies on the East Coast.
“ Then, in 2004, Southwest Recreational filed for bankruptcy. Out of that bankruptcy emerged Beynon Sports Surfaces( Beynon), which today is one of the world’ s largest suppliers and installers of polyurethane track surfaces, for whom we were and are incredibly proud to have been their first authorized installer. After Beynon achieved significant success in the mid-2000s, it was acquired by Tarkett Group, a global, billiondollar flooring solutions business that could
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