Ogden’s Hawx Services acquired by PCM Growth

Hawx Services, an Ogden based pest control company, has been acquired by PCM Growth LLC of Bellevue, Washington. Hawx Services has branches throughout the U.S. Under the new ownership, Hawx will enhance its technology and suite of product and service offerings, PCM Growth said in announcing the transaction.

“The technology, capabilities and resources that PCM brings, combined with our ambition to become a national player, provide the ultimate platform for continued success,” said Matt Mehr, president of Hawx. “The Hawx team is excited that its new partnership will help the company evolve from a technology standpoint. PCM brings a lot of strength to the team with digital marketing and really growing that platform.”

PCM founder Mike Paulus said he also thinks PCM’s digital expertise can help Hawx grow organically. “What I think really got us excited is the way they’ve executed the high-velocity door-to-door sales component. When you combine that with digital acquisition, that really rounds out the portfolio of customer acquisition assets.”

“[Hawx] is a company that has been around long enough to have really learned the model and executed it across a number of locations, but it also has a very entrepreneurial management team that’s incredibly ambitious,” Paulus added.

Hawx Services was founded in 2013 by Mehr and Scott Wilson to provide reliable, innovative and effective pest control services to customers across a broad geography, Mehr said. Since inception, Hawx has performed millions of pest control services. The company’s rapid growth developed organically and all clients are serviced under the Hawx brand.

The Hawx management team of Mehr as president, Wilson as CEO and J.K. Gleave as chief revenue officer will remain intact and continue to hold significant equity positions in the business, the compnay’s release said.

“As Milton Berle said, ‘If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.’ We’ve been building that door since 2013 and we are extremely excited about the new opportunities that are in front of us. We plan to use all growth channels, organic and acquisitive, to scale the company to the next level,” said Wilson.

PCM Growth was founded and is led by Paulus, a financial investor whose startup successes include Assurance IQ, a Seattle-based tech company he founded in 2016 and sold to Prudential Financial for $3.5 billion in 2019.