• Embassy Group Ltd. (Elgin, Ill.) announced that in its ongoing efforts to expand its HVAC division, it has added five additional HVAC vendors who will join the group effective Jan. 1, 2012. The additional vendors are JB Industries (instruments, vacuum pumps & tools), Nu-Calgon (specialty chemicals), Ritchie Engineering/Yellow Jacket (charging hoses & gauges), Sterling/Beacon Morris (gas unit heaters, hydronic heaters & air units), and Unico (high-velocity systems/chillers).

• Colonial Commercial Corp. (Hawthorne, N.J.) announced the appointment of Peter Gasiewicz (right) as its president and chief operating officer.

Publication date: 12/26/2011