Farrior & Sons

What Farrior & Sons does

Farrior & Sons Inc. is a privately held, family-owned general contractor and design/build firm headquartered in Farmville, North Carolina, operating across eastern North Carolina since 1962. The company delivers new construction, additions, and renovations across a diversified set of verticals: government and municipal buildings, fire stations, EMS stations, emergency operations centers, public schools, banks and credit unions, restaurants and retail, industrial and manufacturing facilities, healthcare and dental offices, and religious institutions. Its core offering is integrated design/build construction services, providing clients a single point of accountability from concept through completion, including pre-construction, project design and budgeting, value engineering, and general contracting. Notable technical specializations include pre-engineered metal building construction, modern fire station construction with decontamination and radio rooms, and EMS station construction configured for 24/7 operations.

The business model is project-based: revenue is earned primarily through fixed-price construction contracts on completed projects, supplemented by professional services revenue from integrated design/build delivery. Pricing is custom per project (not publicly disclosed), and the go-to-market is enterprise field sales via competitive bidding on public sector RFPs and direct negotiations with commercial and institutional clients. The company targets a broad customer base of municipal governments, counties, school systems, fire and EMS departments, sheriff's offices, banks, restaurant chains (notably Pizza Hut with seven locations since 2017 and Panera Bread), and industrial clients (Kioti Tractor, Bayer Crop Science, CRC Global, Minges Bottling Group). Marketing is conducted through a project-gallery website, active Facebook presence, news/blog updates, and Greenville Chamber of Commerce membership. Long-tenured field superintendents, family-led management under Bill Farrior Sr. and Bill Farrior Jr., and strategic alliances with engineering partners such as The Wooten Company and Hite Associates underpin delivery capacity.

Name

Farrior & Sons

Legal name

Farrior & Sons Inc.

Website

https://farriorandsons.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Farrior & Sons is a family-owned design/build general contractor based in Farmville, North Carolina, delivering commercial, institutional, and public-sector construction — including fire stations, EMS facilities, schools, banks, restaurants, and industrial buildings — primarily across eastern North Carolina.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Farmville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. General Construction Services: Project-based construction services for commercial, institutional, and municipal buildings. Revenue is earned through fixed-price contracts on completed projects across multiple building categories including fire stations, EMS facilities, schools, churches, banks, restaurants, and industrial facilities.
2. Design/Build Services: Integrated design and construction services providing clients with single-source responsibility for project delivery from conception through completion.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Farrior & Sons is a commercial general contractor offering design/build and pre-construction services for government, institutional, and commercial clients. The company constructs fire stations, EMS stations, emergency operations centers, schools, banks, restaurants, churches, medical and dental offices, retail centers, and industrial facilities primarily across eastern North Carolina, delivering projects via superintendent-led execution and competitive bidding.

Product overview

Farrior & Sons is a commercial construction company offering design/build and general construction services across multiple sectors. The company provides specialized construction services for diverse building types including churches, dental offices, medical offices, professional offices, schools, retail spaces, restaurants, government/municipal facilities, fire stations, banks, industrial facilities, EMS stations, and public safety buildings. The company operates primarily in North Carolina with projects including new construction, additions, and renovations across the commercial and institutional building segments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Design/Build Construction Services Integrated design-build construction offering that provides clients with a single point of responsibility from concept through completion, covering pre-construction, design, value engineering, budgeting, and construction execution for commercial, institutional, and municipal projects.
• Church Construction Construction services for churches and religious facilities, including temples and worship centers, for religious institutions across eastern North Carolina.
• Dental Office Construction Specialized construction for dental offices and dental practice facilities, delivered for dental practitioners such as Michels & Gauquie and Smith, Adams, and Pilkington Dental.
• Medical Office Construction Construction services for medical offices and healthcare facilities, including orthopedics and general medical practices such as Orthopedics East.
• Professional Office Construction Construction of professional office buildings and commercial office spaces for businesses requiring purpose-built workspaces.
• School Construction Educational facility construction including elementary schools with new classroom additions and expansions, delivered for public school systems such as Johnston County Schools and Arendell Parrott Academy.
• Retail Construction Retail space construction including shopping centers and retail outlets for commercial tenants and developers.
• Restaurant Construction Restaurant construction services for national and regional chains, including multi-location rollouts such as Pizza Hut and Panera Bread.
• Government/Municipal Construction Government and municipal building construction including libraries, airports, public aquatics centers, senior centers, and other public facilities for city, county, and other governmental clients.
• Fire Station Construction Fire station construction including modern facilities with truck bays, training rooms, decontamination rooms, communications rooms, and living quarters, delivered for municipal fire departments and volunteer fire departments across eastern North Carolina.
• Bank Construction Financial institution construction including credit unions and bank branches for institutions expanding into new markets or modernizing existing facilities.
• Industrial Construction Industrial facility construction including manufacturing plants, distribution centers, and corporate facilities for manufacturing and industrial firms requiring purpose-built facilities.
• EMS Station Construction Emergency Medical Services station construction including facilities with ambulance bays, sleeping quarters, decontamination rooms, and day rooms designed for 24/7 operations, delivered for county EMS services and municipal emergency response agencies.
• Public Safety Facility Construction Public safety facility construction including emergency operations centers and sheriff's office training facilities with training rooms, classrooms, and specialized tactical spaces, delivered for county and municipal law enforcement and emergency management clients.

Quantifiable outcome

• Wilson County North Central City EMS Station completed ahead of schedule
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers25 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• The Wooten CompanycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 November 2025Partnered with The Wooten Company on Jones County EMS Station No. 02 and Emergency Operations Center projects. The Wooten Company served as engineering/architecture partner for these public safety facility developments.
• Hite AssociatescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerServed as project architect for Benson Elementary School expansion. Collaboration between Farrior & Sons (construction) and Hite Associates (architecture) delivered the 19-classroom addition project.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• T.A. Loving Company: Goldsboro, NC-based general contractor with deep eastern North Carolina roots, providing design-build, construction management, and general contracting across commercial, institutional, healthcare, and industrial projects. Closely overlaps Farrior & Sons' geographic base and customer verticals.
• Clancy & Theys Construction Company: Wilmington, NC-based general contractor with roughly 250–500 employees operating across the Carolinas in commercial, institutional, healthcare, and higher-education construction. Directly comparable to Farrior & Sons in size, regional footprint, and project mix, including public-sector work.
• Robins & Morton: Birmingham, AL-based general contractor with strong healthcare, commercial, and institutional practice across the Southeast. Comparable in employee scale and diversified vertical mix, with deeper healthcare specialization than Farrior & Sons.
• Choate Construction Company: Atlanta-based regional general contractor that has expanded into the Carolinas and Southeast, delivering commercial, healthcare, education, and multifamily projects. Comparable in mid-market positioning and Southeast regional focus, though generally larger in scale than Farrior & Sons.
• Hoar Construction: Birmingham, AL-headquartered general contractor with offices across the Southeast and Texas, working in commercial, healthcare, education, and public-sector markets. Comparable in regional mid-market positioning and project types, though Hoar operates at a larger scale and broader geography.

Broad incumbents

• Brasfield & Gorrie: One of the largest privately held U.S. general contractors, headquartered in Birmingham, AL with a major Southeast presence. Competes with Farrior & Sons on healthcare, commercial, institutional, and public-sector projects but at meaningfully larger scale and broader geography.
• Balfour Beatty US: U.S. arm of the global infrastructure group, with substantial operations across the Carolinas and Southeast in commercial, education, and public-sector construction. Far larger and more diversified than Farrior & Sons, but competes for the same municipal and institutional bids.
• McCarthy Building Companies: National employee-owned general contractor with a strong Southeast presence in healthcare, education, commercial, and public-sector work. Adjacent comparison point for Farrior & Sons given overlapping customer verticals, though at much larger scale and broader geographic reach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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