News: Northern New England
Posted: January 31, 2008
Cianbro Cos. names Vigue to board of directors
Peter Vigue, Cianbro's president and chief executive officer, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors for The Cianbro Companies. Andi Vigue has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Cianbro Corp.
Cianbro is an employee-owned company with gross annual sales in excess of $425 million. Cianbro operates in approximately 15 states with regional offices in Baltimore; Bloomfield, Conn.; and, Portland and Pittsfield, ME. Cianbro remains headquartered in Pittsfield, where it was founded in 1949 by Cianchette brothers Carl, Ken, Bud, and Chuck.
Today, Cianbro operations encompass a family of companies including its East Coast construction organization; fabrication & coatings facilities in Pittsfield and Baltimore; and new eastern manufacturing facility in Brewer, among other operations.
Ival Cianchette, Cianbro's outgoing chairman of the board, will now serve as chairman emeritus. He and his brother Ken remain active members of Cianbro's board of directors. Older brother Carl passed away in 1997 and younger brother Chuck died in 2000.
Cianbro is one of the East Coast's largest civil and heavy industrial construction, and construction services, companies.
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