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KPS Capital Partners Buys Bosch Foundation BrakesKPS Capital Partners announced Tuesday that it has acquired The Bosch Group’s automotive foundation brakes business: Bosch Foundation Brakes. Terms of the deal were not released. Bosch Foundation Brakes is based in France and makes automotive foundation brakes and foundation brake components.
- Global Brass & Copper Holdings Files for I.P.O.
Global Brass & Copper Holdings Inc., a company which is backed by middle market buyout shop KPS Capital Partners, has filed http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1533526/000119312511286313/d227241ds1.htm with regulators to raise up to $150 million in an initial public offering of common stock.
- KPS Capital Partners Buys American & Efird
KPS Capital Partners is paying $180 million to buy American & Efird Inc. from Ruddick Corp. The firm is acquiring American & Efird. Mt. Holly, North Carolina-based American & Efird is a manufacturer and distributor of industrial sewing thread, embroidery thread and technical textiles.
- KPS Capital Buys United Copper
KPS Capital Partners has acquired the assets of United Copper Industries Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not released. United Copper is a manufacturer and distributor of building wire and cable used in the construction of industrial, residential and commercial buildings.
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Deets on Obama's new jobs plan http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-jobs-plan-could-cost-300-billion-include-tax-cuts-new-spending/2011/09/07/gIQA2V9e9J_story.html?hpid=z1 http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-memo-yahoos-board-sent-employees-after-firing-bartz-2011-9?op=1 Daily Dow Jones Rorschach http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/09/daily-dow-jones-rorschach0 How Morgan Stanley may have just gotten a leg up on the Facebook IPO http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/09/07/did-morgan-stanley-just-get-a-leg-up-on-the-facebook-ipo/ Here's the letter http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-memo-yahoos-board-sent-employees-after-firing-bartz-2011-9?op=1 Yahoo's board sent out to employees, shortly after they canned Carol Bartz. A Yahoo employee today then asked the board to give Bartz’s severance package to charity, to much applause http://allthingsd.com/20110907/yang-says-not-for-sale-all-hands-on-yahoos-slippery-deck/ Cold. Crikey. Guy Hands is still trying to win back control http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/after-losing-emi-guy-hands-tries-new-legal-tack/ of the music company EMI. The most f*#%ed up thing people have ever been asked to do at work: Victims share their stories http://www.businessinsider.com/work-horror-stories-2011-9#ixzz1XJITZGgS The industrial manufacturer Dover is selling two companies to KPS Capital Partners http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/09/07/business-industrials-us-dover-kps-capital_8662809.html Rick Perry's economic team is so far economist free http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/07/rick-perry-economic-team/?iid=SF_F_Lead Fortune on why the end of TechCrunch wouldn't be such a terrible thing for entrepreneurs http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/07/the-end-of-techcrunch-would-be-good/?iid=SF_F_LN (Or, of course, TechCrunch competitors.) Lindsey Buckingham is back with a new solo album. New York magazine chats him up http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/09/lindsay_buckingham.html
- KPS Capital Partners Acquires Paladin Brands, Crenlo
Private equity investor KPS Capital Partners, via its newly formed company International Equipment Solutions, has acquired Paladin Brands Holding and Crenlo. The firm is buying the two companies from publicly traded Dover Corp. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Paladin is a provider of engineered attachment tools for operator-driven equipment. Crenlo is a provider of steel cabs and roll-over protective structures and electronics enclosures.
- Domtar Completes Attends Deal
KPS Capital Partners has completed the sale of portfolio company Attends Healthcare Inc. to Domtar Corp. for $315 million in cash. Attends Healthcare is a maker of adult incontinence products. The transaction reportedly generated a 15x and 120% IRR for the PE investor.
- KPS Capital Partners Exits Attends Healthcare
KPS Capital Partners is selling its portfolio company Attends Healthcare Inc. to Domtar Corp. for $315 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. Attends Healthcare is a maker of adult incontinence products.