Brynwood Partners, the lower-middle market private equity firm, continues to add to its portfolio of hair care products companies. Today, it announced that its portfolio company, Golden Sun, has acquired to the rights to the L.A. Looks, Dep Sport, Zero Frizz and Thicker Fuller Hair portfolio of hair care brands, the Soft & Dri female deodorant […]
High Ridge Brands Co., has acquired the global rights to the Coast personal cleansing brand from the Dial Corporation, a subsidiary of the Henkel Group. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, High Ridge Brands is majority-owned by the private equity firm Brynwood Partners, which formed the platform company in January of last year, when it purchased the North […]
InEnTec, a Bend, Oregon, company whose technology technology converts household garbage into gases that can be remade into fuels or burned to generate electricity, has received a “strategic investment” from Chicago-based Lakeside Energy, a clean tech investor backed by the New York-based private equity firm American Securities. As part of the deal, terms of which are not […]
It's looking glum in the M&A world as deal values for first quarter transactions dropped 53%. But the value of PE-backed transactions actually rose, according to Thomson Reuters.
High Street Capital has put an undisclosed amount of money into The TLC Companies. The firm invested alongside the company’s management team, and Cohesive Capital Partners, to fund growth efforts and provide liquidity for its owners, the firm said in a written statement. TLC is based in Brooklyn Center, Minn., and provides outsourced human resource […]
Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings and private equity firm RRJ Capital bought nearly half of the shares in the $1.34 billion offering by PetroChina Co,‘s unit Kunlun Energy Co., Reuters reported Tuesday. More than 140 investors bought into the company, which is becoming a leading player in China’s natural gas sector, according to a term […]
Private equity fund Innova Capital and two others will get a peek at the finances of Polish telecoms operator Netia in a move that could lead to one of them snapping up the group, Reuters reported Tuesday. Netia shares jumped by as much as 4.5% on the news, reaching levels unseen since 2001. Reuters reported […]
Goals Soccer Centres Plc, which runs 5-a-side football centers throughout the UK, said it had received a preliminary approach from Canada’s Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Over the weekend, media reports emerged that the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan was in talks to buy the soccer center operator, which is currently valued at 52 million pounds ($83.08 […]
Sentinel Capital Partners, a buyout shop focusing on lower middle-market deals, has acquired restaurant chain Huddle House Inc. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Atlanta, Huddle House was formed in 1964, and operates in the Southeastern U.S. PRESS RELEASE Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising, lower […]
Top shareholder Carl Icahn has moved closer to buying CVR Energy, after the billionaire investor said 55% of the crude oil refiner’s outstanding shares was tendered to his $2.26 billion offer, Reuters reported Monday. Icahn, who plans to buy CVR for $30 a share and then sell it, holds a 14.5% stake in the company. […]