2018 – Volume Two

As 2018 comes to a close,MPS Group remains on pacein pursuit of our long termGrowth Strategy. This year,

we extended our streak of double-digit growthto nine consecutive years. We also continue toachieve significant industry-leading growth byproviding best-in-class service to our customers.Constant positive feedback and new businessawards confirms we are on the right track and inspires us to keep working hard to satisfy our customers.

This year saw MPS successfully launch severalnew customers, expanding our experience inmarkets beyond Automotive.

In August, MPS acquired EnE Consultants inLouisiana to give us a strong presence in theGulf States region and support several prioritiescontained in our strategic growth plan, specifically related to customer diversificationand geographical expansion. This new group,headed by former EnE owners Josh Savantand Jason Edwards, is a great addition to ourteam and I am excited to see the new heightswe can reach with them on our side.

Last, but certainly not least, I would like to recognize everyone in our organization for theirhard work, passion and commitment to success.What differentiates us from our competitors isnot only our intense focus on process excellenceand our customers, but most importantly, ourgenuine care for one another. As we movethrough the Holiday Season and into the NewYear, we need to be alert and persistent aroundsafety both in the workplace and our personallives. Let’s continue to keep this a priority.

Happy holidays to you and yours.

Ed Schwartz – CEO & President

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Looking Back...Forging Ahead

MPS Group Acquires EnE Consultants

In August, MPS Group announced the acquisition of Estherwood, LAbased EnE Consultants, a leading provider to the Offshore Oil & GasIndustry with experienced and competent consultants who specializein deep-water operations throughout the U.S. and abroad.

The deal, which is projected to add $30 million in annual revenue, alsosupports several priorities contained in MPS Group’s strategic growthplan, specifically related to customer diversification and geographical

expansion. The company’s vision is to continue to grow the business line’s activities whileidentifying opportunities to leverage the capabilities of MPS to add value to its new customers.

"The acquisition of EnE gives MPS Group a strongpresence in the Gulf States region, diversifying ourcustomer base and expanding our footprint," said President and CEO Ed Schwartz. "We are excited towork with our new colleagues, and strongly believethis is another great step forward as we continue to solidify our place as a leader in the markets we serve.

Schwartz noted that what interested MPS in EnE is that, like MPS,EnE’s people are their strength. Their customer relationships arestrong and built on trust accumulated over many years of providing superior performance. He also liked the EnE’s ability to leverage its experience and solid reputation to attract the best and brightest engineers in the industry to oversee drilling

operations on behalf of its customers. Former EnE owners Josh Savant and Jason Edwards will head the new team.

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Did you know that pollinators are responsible for one out of every threebites of food we take each day?

These pollinators, however, which include bees and butterflies, are ata critical point in their own survival,

according to the National Pollinator Garden Network. While there are many reasons

contributing to their decline, the Technical ServiceCenter at MPS Group recently took steps that willhopefully help reverse this trend by planting a pollinator garden at the company’s headquarters inFarmington Hills, MI this past spring.

As part of the Suppliers Partnership for the Environment’s Biodiversity Work Group Project, thecrew of Project Manager Amanda Loveday and InternAllie Plancon planned and planted the garden withthe help of Corporate Recruiter Kellen Seguin.

They planted three each of four different species of plants, all of which are native to Michigan and the local area. These included swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), butterfly weed (Asclepiastuberosa), great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica),and purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea).

Since this garden is stocked with native plants,they’ll grow long root systems and are well suitedto Michigan’s climate…and thus once established,won’t require much maintenance besides regularweeding of the garden and occasional watering,but only when the weather is hot and humid.

“Although the garden began small, multiples ofeach species were planted, and the garden shouldfill in over the years and grow bigger each year,”Loveday said. “This fall, all of the plants that weplanted survived and went to seed, a great sign forthe future success of the pollinator garden.”

The project also requires compiling a monitoring logdetailing which pollinators the garden has attracted.With spotting help from many other MPS employees,the logs show that the garden has already welcomedcabbage white (Pieris rapae) butterflies, an unknownspecies of butterfly in the Sulphur genus (Colias),monarch butterflies, caterpillars (Danaus plexippus),

several species of bees and honeybees, and evensome hummingbirds.

“There has been a lot of interest so far and peoplehave been very positive about the garden,” saidLoveday. “Frequently, staff members tell me aboutwhat they saw when they visited it. And now thatwe’re confident that the garden has survived the fallseason, we can plan which plants to add next springto expand it further… and maybe even place a picnictable near the garden so people can enjoy the viewwhile they eat lunch.”

Pollinator GardenTakes Root at MPSHeadquarters

MPS Group Assists in Effort to Help Mitigate Flood DamageImagine walking into your office in the morning and being welcomed byankle-deep level water. What would you do?

If you were staffers working at Soave Enterprises and Ferrous Processing& Trading Co. (FPT) headquarters in Detroit on July 13, you band togetherand help your employer mitigate its losses after a pipe burst in thebuilding. The two companies even reached out for help from MPS Group headquarters in Farmington Hills, which quickly responded by sendingseveral employees, including General Manager Mario Tribuzio and ProjectManager Scott Beaudette, to assist.

“We deal with emergency responses all the time, so it was business asusual for us,” said Operations Manager Jeff Loos. “When we received thecall from Mario (Tribuzio), we put a team together, loaded them up with thenecessary equipment and mobilized them to get on site as soon as possible.”

The MPS staff members arrived with a vacuum truck, submersible pumps,hand tools and shop vacs to help extract the water from the basement,which houses many important documents. Thankfully, ServPro, which alsowas on the scene, has a freeze-drying process that ultimately allowed thedocuments to be retained.

“It’s a great feeling to know we can come together to help our affiliateswhenever the need arises,” said Loos. “What we were able to accomplishthat day with everything that needed to be done gave us all a sense ofaccomplishment.”

These days, kids of all skill levels across the U.S.in almost every team sport are being swept up by a youth sports economy that has grown to becomeworth over $15 billion dollars.

But what if parents can’t afford the asking price fortheir kids to participate? Does that mean they won’tplay or ever have the opportunity to compete againsttop tier players?

MPS Group Gulf Coast Division Billing AdministratorJoseph Winningham won’t let that happen. Outsideof work hours, he serves as a development coachfor two northwest Louisiana soccer clubs, FC BOCA,which consists of two semi-professional U23 men’s

teams, and FC BOCA Academy,which teaches the game to boysand girls ages three to 23.

“With our program, what we really focus on is providing theopportunity for everybody whowants to play this sport, regardless of whether or notthey can afford it,” proclaimed

Winningham. “We don’t have anything against theother clubs and the ways in which they do things,it’s just that we want to make sure that everybodyhas the chance to compete at a high level.”

In addition to learning the game of soccer, coachingstaffs from both clubs make sure players learn aboutlife as well, and how they react to circumstances. “Abig part of my coaching is teaching our players howto react to negative things,” Winningham explained.“This is something that gets overlooked by a lot ofother coaches. Like teaching our young players thatget knocked down, it’s not just about getting upduring the game, it’s learning that whenever you falldown in life, you pick yourself back up.”

Thanks to an agreement with Bossier Parish, the clubfinally has a true home field, but where FC BOCAand FC BOCA Academy need ongoing help is in theform of sponsorships and/or donations. Uniformsare currently piecemealed so players don’t have toplay in ordinary T-shirts, however, there also is aneed for more equipment, including agility poles,rebound nets and different size hurdles.

Most of the expenses for the clubs are paid out ofpocket by the coaches themselves in order to keepthe cost down for families of the players. The teamalso tries to fit two to three families to a room whenthey travel to away tournaments.

Winningham is very thankful when it comes to thesupport of his daytime employer with which he hasbeen working for 18 months, joining it when the organization was known as EnE Consultants, beforeMPS Group acquired it in August. His day starts at6:00 in the morning and goes until around 2:00 inthe afternoon. He then heads home and switches tosoccer mode, often until midnight. “It’s like havingtwo full-time jobs, but MPS Group has been greatwith accommodating my schedule,” Winninghamsaid. “And likewise, I go out of my way if available forwhatever help MPS Group may need.”

“Soccer is a huge part of my life. Jason Edwardsand Josh Savant both know about this passion and

they havebeen very supportive of our program and what I am trying to do to help these kids.”

As a testament to coaching and opportunity to playagainst top-level competition, in the last two seasonsthe league has seen two players go from the FCBOCA system to professional leagues, including onewho is now playing in Mexico and another who wasrecently picked up by a team in Turkey.

“If you look at soccer around the world, it doesn’tmatter if a player comes from a third world countryor anywhere else, there’s talent everywhere,” saidWinningham. “You can come from wealth or have no money to your name. We just want to make sureeveryone has the same opportunities to compete.”

Crain’s Detroit Business selected MPS Groupto its Crain’s Fast 50, the publication’s annualsurvey of the fastest-growing companies onmetro Detroit’s business scene.

Selections are not made purely by percentagegrowth rate alone, but rather ranked by growthbetween 2014 and 2017 and by the dollaramount of revenue growth. The two rankingsare then added together to create the list.

New service offerings, customer retention,expansion and diversification, and bolt-onacquisitions have all helped contribute toMPS Group’s growth. The company also sawgains from its Total Paint Shop Management business and significant expansion of its steelmill service capabilities that was supportedby an acquisition in 2014.

Providing Kids the Opportunity to Compete

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• Former MPS Group intern Allie Plancon, daughter of PurchasingManager Jill Plancon, was namedvice president of the American Marketing Association’s Grand ValleyState University chapter. The senior,scheduled to graduate in April 2019,worked in the Purchase and Operations Departments during hersummer 2017 internship and theTechnical Service Center for hersummer 2018 internship.

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2018 MPS Group Anniversaries

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KEVIN LEBOEUF

GREGORY LITTLE

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WILLIAM KNOX

TIMMY JONES

SEAN O'CONNOR

EARL DIXON

WENDY HILBERT

BRIAN CARI

HERBERT THOMAS

BETH BAUMGARTNER

LAMONT BERRY

JAMES FIELDS

BRADLEY POLAND

AMY CORSBIE

KELI WEEMS

HANNAH RECKLING

JOE STANIFER

SETH KIEL

JAMES BUMGARNER

JASON CHAPMAN

JAMES COBB

PATRICK DANNEGGER

CALVIN DAVIS

NIGIL EAVES

TANYA FREENEY

BEVERLY GRANBERRY

JOSEPH HURLEY

JOHN INGOLIA

DARREL KNOX

SHELDON LORRAINE

NICHOLAS LOSTUTTER

BRANDON MERLENBACH

CORTNEY OAKMAN

BRYAN ERNST

BRYAN REYNOLDS

MICHELLE RIDGWAY

FREDERICK SMITH

STANLEY SMITH

CHRISTOPHERSPAUNHURST

KENNY TAYLOR

ROBERT TAYLOR

SARAH WHITENER

DONTE WILKERSON

DARLENE WILLIAMS

NICHOLAS ROBERTS

JAMES GWINN

JONATHAN DAVIS

JEREMY BROWN

DEVIN ANDERSON

STEVEN WEST

JUSTIN VANOVER

KEVIN SMITH

WESLEY GWINN

CAIN VEHIGE

CODY LEONARD

LACEY MILLER

ISAIAH LOSTUTTER

ANTHONY DRAPER

MICHAEL WILLIAMS

KYLE DUDLEY

DARRON CHILDRESS

JOSEPH MONROE

RUSSELL HUNT

DAVID SCHWAB

WAYNE SCHWAB

MARIUM AHMED

LAMAR MORRIS

GLENN SIMMONS

SHILONDA BEARD

RICKEY SPEARS

JASON MERLENBACH

ISAAC NICKELSON

BRITTANY REID

KYARA DAVIS

CHRISTINE KRYWYJ

ANDREW GARRISON

GERALD FARRAR

BIANCA THOMAS

MARISSA GILLETT-BEHRENS

JOSEPH WINNINGHAM

ERIC SCHNEIDER

LAWRENCE REMBERT

CODY NUGENT

NATHANIEL BISHOP

MARY HOLLAWAY

BESTHER EDUYA

ALEXANDER LOVE

JIMMY BARNES

MONIQUE FRENCH

JEREMIAH BARLOW

KIMBERLY PEKLO

KIMBERLY SAYENGA

ABBEY RODEBAUGH

BRANDON BERNARD

WILLIAM DICKSON

THOMAS FAULKNER

RYAN HOSTETLER

SCOTT BEAUDETTE

DALE CLARK

JEFFERY LOWE

MALIKI MARTIN

JACK PARIS

PATRICK DUGAN

LEA HANLEY

KIRK HODGES

COREY WILLIAMS

RACHEL CRUMP

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Employee & Family Recognition• The Farmington Hills MPS office celebrated Octoberfest at its warehouse complete with cider anddonuts, lunch and a single-elimination corn-hole tournament. Congratulations to tournament championsRich Lephew and Christine Krywyj of IFS. A chilly, but fun, hayride at Heritage Park capped off the day.