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Note 1 - Organization and Description of Business

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Note 1 - Organization and Description of Business
6 Months Ended
Apr. 30, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]
Note
1.
Organization and Description of Business
 
Organization
 
Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc. (the “Company” or “Successor”) is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries including Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping Holdings (“Brundage-Bone”), Camfaud Group Limited (“Camfaud”), and Eco-Pan, Inc. (“Eco-Pan”).
 
On
December 6, 2018 (
the "Closing Date"), the Company, formerly known as Concrete Pumping Holdings Acquisition Corp., consummated the previously announced business combination transaction (the “Business Combination”) pursuant to which it acquired (i) the private operating company formerly called Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc. (“CPH”) and (ii) the former special purpose acquisition company called Industrea Acquisition Corp (“Industrea”). In connection with the closing of the Business Combination, the Company changed its name to Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc.  The financial results described herein for the dates and periods prior to the Business Combination relate to the operations of CPH prior to the consummation of the Business Combination. See Note
4
– Business Combinations for further discussion.
 
Nature of business
 
Brundage-Bone and Camfaud are concrete pumping service providers in the United States ("U.S.") and United Kingdom (“U.K.”), respectively. Their core business is the provision of concrete pumping services to general contractors and concrete finishing companies in the commercial, infrastructure and residential sectors. Most often equipment returns to a “home base” nightly and neither company contracts to purchase, mix, or deliver concrete. Brundage-Bone has
80
branch locations across
22
states. Camfaud has
29
branch locations throughout the U.K., with its corporate headquarters in Epping (near London), England.
 
Eco-Pan provides industrial cleanup and containment services, primarily to customers in the construction industry. Eco-Pan uses containment pans specifically designed to hold waste products from concrete and other industrial cleanup operations. Eco-Pan has
16
operating locations across the U.S. with its corporate headquarters in Denver, Colorado.
 
Seasonality
 
The Company’s sales are historically seasonal, with lower revenue in the
first
quarter and higher revenue in the
fourth
quarter of each year. Such seasonality also causes the Company’s working capital cash flow requirements to vary from quarter to quarter and primarily depends on the variability of weather patterns with the Company generally having lower sales volume during the winter and spring months.