Since 1990, our private equity strategy has been to invest in basic businesses - manufacturing, assembly, business services, value-added distribution and franchising companies - throughout the United States. We have invested in more than 70 portfolio companies creating a deep reservoir of experience and contacts across a broad array of industries. The vast majority of our portfolio companies have been acquired as a result of family ownership transactions – corporate divestitures or recapitalizations of businesses owned by entrepreneurs. We use flexible investment structures to tailor our investment to satisfy the needs of the transaction – control equity or minority mezzanine positions. Regardless of the nature of the business or transaction, our goal is to grow and improve the business as partners with management and our co-investors.