Investing in Strong Consumer Brands for Long‑Term Success

Japonesque is a rapidly-growing developer and marketer of innovative branded and partner-label beauty implements and makeup brushes. The company primarily sells its products through traditional brick & mortar retailers such as CVS, Target, Walmart, Shoppers Drug Mart, Rite Aid, and online through Amazon.

Remedy Health Media is a growing digital media business that produces proprietary healthcare content. The Company’s primary products and services include digital advertising, “point of care” publications, digital enterprise services and an outsourced publishing business.

Bear Down Brands is a developer and marketer of branded home, health and wellness products headquartered in Santa Ana, California. The Company has capitalized on the shift to e-commerce through its diversified portfolio of humidifiers, air purifiers, personal care products, lunch and food storage and other products sold under its two premier brands, Pure Enrichment and Bentgo.

Palmetto Moon is a specialty retailer, headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, operating in the southeastern United States. Palmetto Moon is focused on merchandising affordable, outdoor active lifestyle, college lifestyle, and state pride brands that appeal to and promote the values of collegiate, coastal and southern living.

Texas Family Fitness (“TFF”) operates high-amenity, high-value health and fitness centers in the suburban Dallas-Fort Worth market. TFF’s fitness centers offer a full range of cardio and strength equipment, group exercise, personal training, and family care for children for a low monthly price.

Polder Products is a designer and manufacturer of branded housewares, and produces innovative products across the kitchen storage and prep, home organization, and laundry categories.

JD Beauty is a leading designer and marketer of branded, professional-quality hair brushes and beauty care accessories headquartered in Hauppauge, NY. The Company’s flagship detangling brush, the Wet Brush, is the number one hair brush brand in the professional channel and the fastest-growing hair brush brand in the consumer retail channel.

PlayMonster is a family entertainment company headquartered in Beloit, WI. The Company is a leader in the toy and game industry, and designs, manufactures, distributes, and markets games, children’s puzzles, preschool toys, creative activities, and teaching tools. The Company focuses on innovation through building brands and creating new categories, and maintains relationships across national chains and specialty stores. Top selling brands include 5 Second Rule^®, Mirari^®, My Fairy Garden^®, Relative Insanity^®, The Game of THINGS^®, and Yeti in My Spaghetti^®.

HCOA Fitness is the largest operator of fitness clubs in Puerto Rico. HCOA clubs provide a variety of health and wellness offerings, including a complete array of strength and cardiovascular equipment, group exercise and cycling classes, and personal training services. The company manages a total of 15 locations – both female-only and co-ed, located throughout Puerto Rico.

Stagnito Business Information is a business-to-business media and information services company serving the grocery and convenience store industries. The company has the number one or two market share for each of its trade publications including Convenience Store News (CSN), CSNews for the Store Single Operator (SSO), Private Label Store Brands (PLSB), Retail Leader, Progressive Grocer and Hispanic Retail (HR 360).

Pulse Veterinary Technologies develops and markets innovative, non-invasive medical devices for the veterinary market. The company’s principal technology is the VersaTron family of products for the management of a variety of musculoskeletal disorders causing chronic pain and lameness in animals. The VersaTron® creates a high energy acoustic pressure wave that stimulates the healing process in soft tissue injuries and arthritic joints.

New Whey Nutrition is a functional beverage company based in Oviedo, Florida. The Company sells a portfolio of functional beverages and other nutritional products through Wal-mart, Kroger, Vitamin Shoppe and a variety of other retailers and distributors. The company’s best-selling product is New Whey Liquid Protein, an innovative, concentrated protein beverage containing 42 grams of protein with no sugar or fat in 3.8 ounces.

Utrecht was a niche retailer of fine arts supplies with 43 stores nationwide.  Utrecht also manufactured its own proprietary line of oil-based and acrylic paints out of a facility in Brooklyn, NY.  Founded in 1949, the Utrecht brand is well-known and well-regarded among artists, both for its retailing expertise, assortment and the quality of its proprietary paints.  We successfully sold Utrecht to a strategic acquirer in April 2013.