ESI Group Launches Strategic Growth Team for Food and Pharma-Cold Projects

HARTLAND, WI, February 24, 2026 – ESI Group has launched its Strategic Growth Team, a cross-functional initiative designed to bring clarity, alignment, and actionable insight to the earliest stages of capital planning for food and pharma-cold clients. This approach ensures critical decisions are guided by market trends, technical expertise, and financial insight — leveraging the experience and knowledge of ESI Group’s internal design, engineering, and operations teams.

A More Intentional Front-End Approach

The Strategic Growth Team unites Business Development, Marketing, and Preconstruction experts into a collaborative unit. By drawing on internal technical and operational expertise, the team helps clients define strategy, evaluate options, and reduce risk before construction begins — improving cost certainty, schedule reliability, and overall project outcomes.

Built for Food and Pharma-Cold Complexity

“Success in today’s food and pharmaceutical distribution markets starts early,” said Bobby Degregorio, Senior Vice President of Strategic Growth. “Our Strategic Growth Team integrates front-end advisory expertise with the insights of our internal design, engineering, and operations teams. This allows us to ask the right questions, provide actionable recommendations, and align every investment with our clients’ long-term operational and growth objectives. We’re not just building facilities — we’re helping our clients build strategy into every decision.”

Guiding Clients from Concept to Execution

With specialized experience in highly regulated and technically complex facilities, the Strategic Growth Team ensures clients benefit from the full depth of ESI Group’s capabilities. By acting as the bridge between strategy and execution, the team helps clients navigate regulatory complexity, speed-to-market pressures, and technical challenges with confidence and clarity.

For more information on ESI Group, visit https://www.esigroupusa.com.

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About ESI Group

ESI Group is a nationally recognized design, engineering, and construction services firm for climate-controlled facilities. Since 1991, our team has specialized in food and beverage processing and storage solutions to improve efficiencies, mitigate costs, and ensure compliance. Our success is driven by providing value to help customers build, manage, and grow their business. ESI Group has several large projects underway or recently completed. For more information, visit https://esigroupusa.com/projects and follow us @esigroupusa.