IT company ICS acquires Massachusetts firm

ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Endicott–based ICS on Thursday announced it has acquired AKUITY Technologies, a provider of information technology (IT) managed services in the greater New England area.

ICS — a provider of IT managed services and cybersecurity products in the Northeast — didn’t provide any financial terms of the acquisition deal in its Thursday news release. The deal closed the same day, ICS tells CNYBJ in an email.

ICS and Auburn, Massachusetts–based AKUITY say they are joining forces to “expand their Northeast footprint strategically.”

The AKUITY Technologies suite of services will complement ICS’s extended capabilities, so the two companies integrating their services made “perfect sense,” Kevin Blake, president and CEO of ICS, said in a release.

“We are thrilled to have the AKUITY Technologies staff join the ICS family,” said Blake. “It was clear that the AKUITY Technologies culture and core values fit right in with ours. We are looking forward to growing our New England footprint thru future acquisitions.”

With the sale of the company, all 50 AKUITY Technologies employees have transitioned to ICS. Additionally, Brian Hanify, COO of AKUITY Technologies, is now serving as the New England territory’s regional president for ICS.

In operation for more than 30 years, ICS now has nearly 150 employees with headquarters in Endicott and two additional New York offices in DeWitt and Ithaca, along with the new location in Auburn, Massachusetts, south of Worcester in the central part of the state.