Private Equity
TSG Consumer Partners built a stellar track record by remaining true to its roots. For more than two decades, the firm never wavered from its focus on three core consumer segments: food and beverage, personal care and household products. That kind of single-mindedness has paid off with blockbuster investments in companies like VitaminWater, Smart Balance Foods, and Smashbox Cosmetics.
5 min read · 28 January 2013
10 min read · 12 November 2012
Gary Bruebaker reckons that without private equity, Washington State’s pension funds would be worth $6 billion less than they are worth today.
10 min read · 12 November 2012
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6 min read · 20 September 2010
July 19 was a good day for Castle Harlan Inc. The New York buyout firm announced that it had agreed to sell Ames True Temper Inc., a maker of shovels, wheelbarrows and other lawn and garden equipment, to Griffon Corp. for $542 million. It had bought the company for $380 million in 2004.
6 min read · 02 August 2010
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