DeWitt Excavating purchased

WINTER GARDEN  For more than 35 years, Winter Garden's DeWitt Excavating Inc. has been known for its work related to construction in West Orange County.

That work will continue with the same DeWitt team after an April 1 complete asset sale to Plateau Excavation, a site improvement contractor from Austell, Georgia, according to officials.

A slight name change to DeWitt Excavation LLC is involved, but as a family-owned business in Florida since 1980, personnel want to keep it that way, according to a press release on the sale.

“The DeWitt family sees this as a great opportunity for all concerned to assure the DeWitts' continuing service to the community throughout Central Florida, and beyond, in the years ahead,” DeWitt Vice President Timothy DeWitt said.

Plateau is licensed to operate in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

Plateau's COO and vice president, Brad Carroll, agreed that maintaining the local respect DeWitt has become known for would remain a top priority.

“The true value of any organization lies within the employees,” Carroll said. “We have been so impressed with the quality and character of the entire employee group at DeWitt and are excited to build strong relationships with them.”

Expansion would occur only organically via the current customer base in DeWitt's present footprint, he said, so the company will be ready to meet growth demand in the area.

“The overall construction market continues to improve, and we feel the future is bright for continued quality development and infrastructure improvements in the service area of DeWitt,” Carroll said. “Due to DeWitt’s outstanding reputation and decades of quality work, we have a wonderful foundation to build upon. Our goal is to provide increased leadership and improved financial capabilities to better service our customers.”

Specific terms of the deal will not be disclosed.

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