Janus International Group, Inc. (JBI) Business

Item 1. BUSINESS

Overview

Janus International Group, Inc. (“we,” “us,” “Group,” “Janus” or the “Company”), headquartered in Temple, Georgia with eleven domestic and three international manufacturing facilities is a leading global manufacturer, supplier, and provider of turn-key self-storage, commercial, and industrial building solutions including: roll up and swing doors, hallway systems, single- and multi-story steel buildings, building components, relocatable storage “MASS” (Moveable Additional Storage Structures) units, facility and door automation technologies, and trucking terminal renovation, construction, remodeling, and maintenance services. We are highly integrated with customers at every phase of a project, including facility planning/design, construction, access control, and the restoration, rebuilding, and replacement (“R3”) of self-storage facilities. The self-storage industry is comprised of institutional and non-institutional facilities. Institutional facilities typically include multi-story, climate controlled facilities located in prime locations owned and/or managed by large real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) or returns-driven operators of scale and are primarily located in the top 50 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (“MSAs”), whereas the vast majority of non-institutional facilities are single-story, non-climate controlled facilities located outside of city centers owned and/or managed by smaller private operators that are mostly located outside of the top 50 U.S. MSAs.

Company History

Founded in 2002, we are a leading global manufacturer and supplier of turn-key self-storage, commercial, and industrial building solutions, including roll-up and swing doors, hallway systems, relocatable storage units, and facility and door automation technologies. Over the past 20 years, we have expanded our operations to serve several U.S. and international locations. Our common stock is listed and traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “JBI.”

Competitive Strengths

We believe the following competitive strengths have been instrumental in our growth and position us for continued success:

Strong Share in Growing, Well-Structured Markets. We serve the market for exterior and interior building solutions through both institutional REITs and non-institutional operators. REITs comprise approximately 35 to 40% of the overall self-storage market by square footage, and have grown significantly over the past decade and at a higher rate than the non-institutional market. Within the commercial industrial sector, we are a smaller participant within a larger addressable market, which provides us with significant opportunity for market share growth within a sector that is well positioned for future growth driven by the rising growth of e-commerce. We have achieved this success within the self-storage and commercial industrial sectors by being a full solution provider to our customers, providing expertise, and a full suite of products to solve our customers’ problems.

Mission Critical Solutions for a Small Fraction of Facility Costs. Our self-storage products are typically the last items installed on site before an operator can generate income from its properties. This results in a high cost of failure for our suite of product solutions and a reliance by customers on our extensive domestic and international manufacturing and distribution networks. We focus on finding solutions to obstacles that arise long before a unit or facility is complete and customers place a premium on our efficiency, reliability, and ability to deliver. Our products also represent a small portion of the overall cost of a facility or an R3 retrofit. We believe our value-added services, such as site pre-work planning, site drawings, installation, project management, and third-party security, as well as our ability to differentiate ourselves from the competition through on-time delivery, efficient installation, reliable service, and a reputation for high quality products, has allowed us to gain a significant competitive advantage.

Complete Offering of Products, Solutions, and Services along with Maintenance, Fabrication, and Installation. We provide a full suite of products, services and maintenance, fabrication, and installation offerings that meet a wide-range of client demands including management of third-party installation, architect drawings, R3 solutions, self-storage doors, hallway systems, relocatable systems, electronic locks, commercial doors, self-storage maintenance and servicing, and custom facility gate fabrication and installation, all of which are realized through a large network of third-party installers, as well as our eleven strategically placed manufacturing and service facilities in the United States of America. Our current manufacturing, service, and distribution footprint enables us to serve customers globally, minimize lead times, and reduce freight expense. Our ability to provide a full suite of products, services, fabrication, installation and maintenance routines across a nationwide network enables us to compete for complex, marquee contract opportunities and deliver highly customized solutions at both the global and local level.

First Mover with Proprietary High ROI Technology Solutions. We and Nokē, Inc. (“NOKE”) (which we acquired in 2018) have been working for several years to develop proprietary access control technologies, software, and solutions focused on the self-storage sector where limited technologies or products currently exist. We are actively selling and developing a platform with multiple adjacencies including hardware (i.e., purpose-built locks), software (i.e., applications and a web portal) and back-end integration (i.e., APIs and a cloud platform) to provide ROI improvement opportunity for our clients’ new facilities and R3 retrofits. Our proprietary hardware and smart locking systems have helped businesses manage physical security and have laid the ground work for us to integrate an enhanced wireless network within a self-storage facility, thereby creating a segment of our business with limited competition and high barriers to entry.

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Proven and Experienced Management Team. Our management team has deep industry expertise and a deep bench of supporting talent. We are led by our Chief Executive Officer, Ramey Jackson, who has been with us since 2002 and has extensive experience in the industry. Mr. Jackson is supported by a management team that has a long track record of demonstrating an ability to produce robust and consistent organic and inorganic growth.

Our Acquisition Strategy. Our management team has a proven track record of identifying, executing, and integrating acquisitions to support our strategic growth initiatives. In order to achieve this growth, we utilize a disciplined, highly accretive acquisition strategy that prioritizes portfolio diversification into logical adjacencies, geographic expansion, and technological innovation. We continue to actively review a number of acquisition opportunities that fit this framework.

Acquisitions

Kiwi II Asset Acquisition

On January 8, 2026, through our wholly owned subsidiary Janus International Group, LLC, we acquired the business operations (such transaction, the “Kiwi Acquisition”) of Kiwi II Construction Inc., a California corporation, Kiwi II East, Inc., a Tennessee corporation, Metal Tech, Inc., a California corporation (collectively, the “Kiwi Sellers”). Pursuant to the asset purchase agreement for the Kiwi Acquisition, we acquired substantially all the assets of the Kiwi Sellers related to the business of designing, supplying, and constructing self-storage facilities and manufacturing certain components in those facilities.

Terminal Door Asset Acquisition

On May 17, 2024, we, through our wholly owned subsidiary Terminal Door, LLC (“Terminal Door”) acquired the business operations (such transaction, the “T.M.C. Acquisition”) of Smith T.M.C., Inc., a Georgia corporation, Jerry O. Smith Company, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company, and J.O.S. Realty, Inc., a Georgia corporation (collectively, “T.M.C.” or the “T.M.C. Sellers”). Pursuant to the asset purchase agreement for such acquisition, Terminal Door acquired substantially all assets of the T.M.C. Sellers related to the business of trucking terminal renovation, construction, remodeling, and maintenance.

Industry Overview

Self-Storage

Approximately 68% of our total revenues are attributable to the self-storage market. The self-storage industry refers to properties that offer do-it-yourself storage space rental for personal or business use. Self-storage provides a convenient way for individuals and businesses to store their belongings, whether due to a life event or the need for extra storage.

According to management estimates, there are more than 57,000 self-storage facilities located in the United States. Self-storage facilities can be classified into two general categories: institutional and non-institutional. Institutionally owned facilities typically include multi-story, climate-controlled facilities located in prime locations owned and/or managed by a REIT or other returns-driven operators of scale. These institutional facilities are typically located in a top 50 U.S. MSA. Non-institutional facilities are typically comprised of single-story, non-climate-controlled facilities, often located outside of city centers, owned and/or managed by smaller private operators.

The self-storage market is highly fragmented with REITs comprising approximately 38% of the overall self-storage market by square footage, having grown significantly over the past decade and at a higher rate than the non-institutional market. REITs often achieve growth via acquisition of existing self-storage facilities, which creates demand for remodeling solutions to conform branding to the acquirer’s colors, logos, and aesthetic.

The self-storage market benefits from unique and attractive demand and supply attributes. Growth in self-storage demand has been driven by favorable long-term macroeconomic trends, including rising storable consumption per capita, population growth, and rising home ownership rates. There are also several other demand drivers within the self-storage industry that create demand including disasters, dislocation, death, divorce, decluttering, and commercial customers utilizing self-storage for storage and/or operations of their business. Available supply of self-storage is well below long-term levels, as exhibited by the key self-storage REITs operating at over 90% occupancy rates based upon publicly available information as of the third quarter of 2025. In addition to ongoing tight supply conditions, management estimates that approximately 66% of existing self-storage facilities are over 20 years old, which creates the potential need for replacement and refurbishment of an aging installed base.

Given high existing occupancy rates and expected rising demand, investment in additional self-storage capacity may be required in the future. New self-storage capacity can be created in several ways, including greenfield construction, expansions of existing self-storage facilities, conversions of existing buildings into self-storage facilities (for example: mothballed Big Box retail locations), or via facility acquisitions and upgrades. We are the market leader in building solutions for the self-storage market, offering institutional and non-institutional operators the broadest product offering and unique end-to-end solutions.

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Commercial Door

Approximately 32% of our total revenues are attributable to the commercial industrial door market. Commercial doors are primarily composed of metal, plastic, and wood and used in industrial facilities, office, retail, and lodging establishments, institutional buildings, trucking terminal renovation, construction, remodeling, and maintenance services, and other non-residential infrastructure.

We compete within the metal commercial doors sub-sector with a focus on commercial roll-up sheet doors and rolling steel doors. Roll-up sheet doors are constructed of lighter gauge steel, are less durable, and less expensive than rolling steel doors. These doors are used in pre-engineered buildings and for applications where insulation is less important. Rolling steel doors are constructed of heavier gauge steel, are more durable and more expensive than roll-up sheet and sectional doors, and are primarily used in facilities such as warehouses, particularly in heavy industrial applications (carrying with them the ability to better trap hot/cool air inside the facility).

The metal commercial door market has experienced solid growth driven by: (1) an increase in construction spending, (2) aging infrastructure, and (3) efforts to improve security, appearance, and the energy efficiency of buildings.

Within the commercial industrial sector, we are a smaller participant within a larger addressable market, which we believe provides us with significant opportunity for market share growth within a sector that is well positioned for future growth driven by the rising growth of e-commerce.

Competitive Conditions

We are subject to competition in substantially all product and service areas. Although our competition can vary by local market, both the industries and markets we compete in are highly competitive and fragmented as a whole.

Our industries and markets include global, national, regional, and local providers for our products, services, and solutions, including manufacturers, distributors, service providers, online commerce providers, as well as newer entrants to the market with non-traditional business and customer service models or disruptive technologies and products.

We believe that participants in our industry compete on the basis of customer relationships, product quality and availability, reliability, delivery speed, value added products and services, service capabilities, product and technological innovation, pricing, and overall ease of doing business. We typically compete with one or more local providers in all of our markets, as well as a number of national and regional companies.

Raw Materials

The principal raw material used in our business is steel (steel coil). We purchase raw materials from commercial sources on a fixed and variable basis. Our practice is to seek cost savings and enhanced quality by purchasing from a limited number of suppliers.

The steel industry is highly cyclical and prices for these raw materials are influenced by numerous factors beyond our control. The steel market continues to be dynamic, with a degree of uncertainty about future pricing trends. Numerous factors may cause steel prices to increase in the future, including the imposition of tariffs. In addition to increases in steel prices, steel mills may add surcharges for zinc, energy, and freight in response to increases in their costs. See “Item 1A — Risk Factors” and “Item 7 — Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” While sufficient raw materials are generally available, rising geopolitical challenges may impact the availability, and thereby cause supply constraints, for steel. Depending on relative demand in the raw materials market, we may purchase and carry more steel or other raw materials in inventory to meet projected sales demand, as required.

Patent and Intellectual Property Rights

Generally, we, through Janus Core and its subsidiaries, seek statutory protection for strategic or financially important intellectual property developed in connection with our business. Certain intellectual property, where appropriate, is protected by contracts, licenses, confidentiality or other agreements. From time to time, we take action to protect our businesses by asserting our intellectual property rights against third-party infringers.

We maintain various trademarks that are registered or otherwise legally protected in the U.S. and many non-U.S. countries where our products and services are sold. As part of our Nokē Smart Entry platform, we provide a limited right for our customers to publicly display certain trademarks in connection with the customer’s use and adoption of the Nokē Smart Entry solution.

We have U.S. and foreign patents, the majority of which cover products that we currently manufacture and market. Our patents expire at various dates between 2031 and 2044. These patents, and applications for new patents, cover various design aspects of our products, as well as processes used in their manufacture and installation. We continue to develop new potentially patentable products, product enhancements, and product designs including those concerning mechanical, electrical, and computerized self-storage security and access solutions and self-storage building products and techniques.

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While we believe our intellectual property portfolio is important to our business operations and in the aggregate constitutes a valuable asset, no single patent, trademark, license or other intellectual property, or group of such intellectual property, is critical to the success of the business or any segment. See “Item 1A — Risk Factors.”

Regulation

Laws, ordinances, or regulations affecting development, construction, operation, upkeep, safety, and taxation requirements may result in significant unanticipated expenditures, loss of self-storage sites or other impairments to operations, which would adversely affect our cash flows from operating activities.

Insurance activities are subject to state insurance laws and regulations as determined by the particular insurance commissioner for each state in accordance with the McCarran-Ferguson Act, as well as subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the privacy regulations promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission pursuant thereto.

Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”), and comparable state laws, we may be required to investigate and remediate regulated hazardous materials at one or more of our properties. For additional information on environmental matters and regulation, see “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business — Extensive environmental regulation to which we are subject creates uncertainty regarding future environmental expenditures and liabilities.”

Greenhouse Gas (“GHG”) Emission Related Policies, Regulations, and Legislation

Governments across the globe have announced and implemented various policies, regulations, and legislation to support the transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon forms of energy and the infrastructure around that transition. The operation of our business and our customers’ use of our products and solutions and services as well as our digital applications are, and may in the future be, impacted by these various government actions. For example, the United States rejoined the Paris Agreement effective February 19, 2021, an international climate change agreement among almost 200 nations and the European Union (“EU”), that established a long-term goal of keeping the increase in global average temperature well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and which calls for countries to set their own GHG emissions targets and be transparent about the measures each country will use to achieve these targets. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order directing the immediate notice to the United Nations of the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and all other agreements made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. However, various state and local governments in the U.S. have publicly committed to furthering the goals of the Paris Agreement and many of these efforts at the local, state and international levels are expected to continue.

In August 2022, the United States passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”), which consists of a number of provisions aimed directly at confronting the climate change crisis. Among other things, the IRA introduced the Clean Energy Investment Tax Credit (“ITC”) for standalone energy storage, which is anticipated to lower the capital cost of equipment. The IRA also contains provisions with incentives for grid modernization equipment, including domestic battery cell manufacturing, battery module manufacturing and its components as well as various upstream applications. These types of regulations incentivize the adoption of renewable energy technologies, including energy storage products.

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) into law, which revises and expands certain renewable energy tax credits that were previously available under the IRA. Future implementation and enforcement of the IRA, including in light of the OBBBA, remains uncertain at this time. However, compliance with these specific policies, regulations, and legislation targeted to support the transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon forms of energy and the infrastructure around that transition may have an impact on the Company.

Human Capital

Workforce Composition and Demographics

As of January 3, 2026, we had 2,243 employees, consisting of 1,817 full-time and part-time employees worldwide and 426 contract workers.

Approximately 58% of our full-time and part-time employees are engaged in manufacturing and production roles, primarily as hourly production associates. The remaining portion of our workforce is comprised of professionals in various roles. Our current worldwide workforce is made up of approximately 89% domestic employees and approximately 11% international employees.

We recognize that our employees are our greatest asset. As a result, we strive to create an environment that keeps our employees safe, treats them with dignity and respect, and fosters a culture of performance recognition. We achieve this through the programs summarized below.

Employee Health and Safety

Safety is a core value of ours and is a critical element to our continued growth strategy. We foster a culture that is committed to making safety a personal mission for every employee. Our overall goal is to eliminate workplace injuries. We also promote and foster an environment of empowerment and sharing throughout the company at all levels and at all locations. We engage our employees on safety with a focus on risk identification and elimination through various leading indicators. We track Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”)

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recordable injuries and lost time rates by location monthly. We establish safety targets annually, which are tracked and reported to leadership on a monthly basis.

We have an Environmental, Health & Safety committee comprised of representatives from across our businesses that share best practices and is responsible for driving our environmental, health and safety strategy. This helps drive our programs designed to reinforce positive behaviors, empower our employees to actively take part in maintaining a safe work environment, to heighten awareness and mitigate risk on critical safety components. Within each of our manufacturing and distribution facilities, we have site-specific safety and environmental goals designed to reduce risk.

Total Rewards

As part of our compensation philosophy, we believe that we must offer and maintain a competitive total rewards program for our employees in order to attract and retain superior talent. These programs not only include base wages and performance-based incentives, but also health, welfare, and retirement benefits.

We offer competitive health and wellness benefits to eligible employees and periodically conduct analyses of plan utilization to further tailor our employee benefits to meet their ongoing needs.

Talent Development and Succession

We aim to inspire and equip our employees to be successful in their current role within the organization and help them develop the skills to build on opportunities for future career growth. We understand our most critical roles that serve as points of leverage to deliver value and place our best people in those roles while attracting new talent and capabilities in support of continuous improvement in all we do. We utilize performance management programs to support a high-performance culture, strengthen our employee engagement, and help retain our top talent.

Succession planning for critical roles is an important part of our development program across our businesses. We are committed to developing our current talent and have made a significant investment in assessing our talent against the jobs both in the near term and in the future state. We are committed to ensuring our leaders are prepared for greater levels of responsibility and can successfully transition into new roles.

We believe that investing in the long-term development of our employees further solidifies our commitment to recruit, mentor, and retain world-class talent. Through the development and implementation of Janus University, we are continuously expanding learning opportunities for our teams. We strongly believe that this investment in our teams will build upon our employees’ existing skills and talents and will allow them to advance in their careers while allowing us to achieve our strategic goals.

Available Information

Our principal office is located at 135 Janus International Blvd. Temple, GA. Our telephone number is (866) 562-2580. Our website address is www.janusintl.com. Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and all amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Exchange Act are available free of charge on our website as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Unless expressly noted, the information on our website or any other website is provided as inactive textual references only and is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K or any other information we file with or furnish to the SEC.

Information About Our Executive Officers

See “Item 10 — Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance”.