O'Hara's Son Roofing Company

Location: Chicago, Ill.

Founded: 1987

Scope of Work: 100 percent commercial

Number of Employees: 40

Website: oharasson.com

2018 Annual Revenue: $17.4 million

Last year was: “2018 proved to be a year of tremendous financial growth for O’Hara’s Son Roofing Company,” said President Luke Coleman. “Through continued education training for our team, better organization internally, and the addition of new salespersons and supervisors, we saw our sales go from $15 million in 2017, to $17.3 million in 2018.

“We implemented new strategies for sales, operations, and job processing. Executing these strategies included hiring additional sales professionals with experience in procuring and maintaining national accounts. Becoming vendors in the roof recover programs for multiple major retailers has contributed greatly to our backlog.”

This year will be: “We fully expect continued financial growth in 2019, as we expand our services into several new regions nationally. We are vetted vendors for both Walmart Stores, Inc. and Target, Inc., and have secured contracts in many states across the United States. We’ve also launched a residential company, Avondale Roofing Services, that will be fully functional in 2019. Our current projected revenue for 2019 is $22.5 million.”

On Being part of RC’s Top 100: “To be included in the best-read and most-shared Roofing Contractor Top 100 Roofing Contractor List is an honor, one that all roofing contractors should strive to achieve. Our mission at O’Hara’s Son Roofing Company is to provide the highest quality service, materials, and workmanship. We aim to preserve and perpetuate our reputation as one of the nation’s best roofing and exteriors companies.