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The Budget-Phone Brand That Grew Up and Went Enterprise
NUU spent a decade selling cheap unlocked Androids to Americans who hated overpaying. Then a pandemic pushed it into a stranger, stickier business: building custom phones for companies who never wanted to be phone companies.
Meriton
Meriton is an Irving, Texas-based national alliance of independent commercial HVAC manufacturer representatives. Founded in 2019 and led by Chairman & CEO Jerry Braun, it unites market-leading rep firms under a shared-services model - giving local businesses access to national scale, engineering depth, and corporate support in finance, HR, IT, safety, training, and marketing while letting them keep their names and local autonomy. Through more than two dozen acquisitions, Meriton now spans 19 operating brands, 44 locations, roughly 26 states, and 2,100+ employees serving manufacturers, contractors, engineers, and building owners across commercial, industrial, and institutional markets.
Jerry Braun
Jerry Braun is the Chairman and CEO of Meriton, a Dallas-based national alliance of commercial HVAC manufacturer representative firms that he has grown into a network of 19 member companies, 44 locations and more than 2,100 employees since 2019. He is also Chairman and CEO of Texas AirSystems, which he has led since 2000. Braun's model buys leading regional HVAC representative firms and keeps their local leadership in place while giving them national scale, a strategy that has multiplied Meriton's revenue and profit more than sixfold in five years.