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A Global Portfolio Focused on Making a Positive Impact

We are building a portfolio based of sustainable and purpose-driven businesses that can make a vulnerable and positive impact on the world. We invest in organizations that support mental health, sustainability, energy conservation, and more. Explore our family of companies and discover how we work together to promote growth for good.

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Kendrion’s Automotive Division

Year Founded: 1911 Year Acquired: 2024

Kendrion’s Automotive Division designs, manufactures, and delivers intelligent actuators that help advance the global push towards electrification and sustainable energy. Today, these compact and connected actuators are used in wind power, robots, factory automation, electric vehicles, energy distribution and industrial heating processes, supporting the company’s OEM customers around the world in transitioning to safer and cleaner forms of energy. As a technology pioneer and innovator, building on a foundation of over one hundred years of experience, Kendrion’s Automotive Division is driven by a desire to explore creative solutions for the engineering challenges of tomorrow. The company takes broad responsibility for how they source, manufacture, and conduct business. Sustainable business practices are integrated in the company’s processes and embedded in their culture. Rooted in Germany, the company’s footprint extends across Europe to the Americas and Asia.

ProPrintPerformance

Year Founded: 2004 Year Acquired: 2023

ProPrintPerformance originates from a true production background and is specialized in the Digital Production Print Sales and Marketing Development. Their services are designed to enable Sales and Marketing professionals to demonstrate the added value for their customers. Many of the leading manufacturers of Digital Production Printing Solutions value their independence and have partnered with ProPrintPerformance, most of them for more than a decade. Their sales enablement platform, together with their training services, provides customers with confidence and credibility which helps to increase overall sales results.

Karstedt Partners, LLC

Year Founded: 1996 Year Acquired: 2022

Since 1996 Karstedt Partners, LLC has been a trusted source for insights, innovations, and consulting services to constituents in all sectors of the consumer products and packaging supply chain. Brand Owners, Graphic Service Providers, Package Printers, and OEMs have counted on Karstedt Partners counsel and guidance with developing efficient and effective workflows and tools aimed at improving time-to-market and product quality. Building on a corporate reputation of being both visionary and pragmatic, Karstedt Partners offers insightful and actionable guidance to companies looking to; use existing technologies in innovative ways, build new processes or solutions and bring them to market, validate business and technology prospects.

Psychological Assessment and Intervention Services, Inc. (PAIS)

Year Founded: 1991 Year Acquired: 2022

PAIS was founded in 1991 primarily to address individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. The company expanded and now serves clients in 29 counties, supported by seven regional offices in West Virginia. PAIS has over 200 employees and offers person-centered home and community-based services, including direct services and case management for individuals with developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families, along with psychological assessment and general outpatient therapy services for children and adults.

Solero Technologies

Year Founded: 1972 Year Acquired: 2021

Solero Technologies is a leading global supplier of transmission solenoids, engine solenoids, stop-start accumulators, and hydraulic control modules. The business, including its state-of-the-art production facility in Water Valley, Mississippi, along with related sales and engineering operations in Detroit, provides advanced design, prototyping, development, and manufacturing combined with a strong intellectual property portfolio across product categories. The business has built an acclaimed reputation for developing and delivering quality solenoid products to automotive OEMs, the aftermarket, and other industrial sectors, for more than 50 years.

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Human Resource Training

Year Founded: 1981 Year Acquired: 2021

Human Resource Training (HRT) was incorporated in August of 1981 to provide consultation and training in the social services field. Over its history, HRT has expanded its scope to offer a wide range of services in child and adult welfare throughout the state of Arizona. Today, programs offered by HRT include therapeutic foster care, child abuse prevention, and child and adult developmental homes for the developmentally disabled population. These programs serve to strengthen families and make homes safer for children, while HRT works with families from their initial involvement in the system to permanency planning. HRT takes a positive approach to parenting that builds on family strengths when working with children. 

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Renew Consulting

Year Founded: 2004 Year Acquired: 2021

Founded in 2004, Renew Consulting is an industry-leading residential behavioral health company with 18 facilities serving the needs of a broad spectrum of behavioral health residents throughout Northwest Oregon. Renew is a service-driven organization committed to providing customized, person-centered supports for individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health needs.

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Family Behavioral Resources

Year Founded: 1997 Year Acquired: 2020

FBR-AERI is a leading provider of outpatient and community-based behavioral health services.  Acquired by Pathways Health and Community Support in 2020, FBR-AERI’s service offerings align with Pathways’ mission to improve the lives of people by inspiring personal growth, health and wellness. FBR-AERI operates from 30 locations throughout Pennsylvania and is a leading provider of outpatient and community-based behavioral health services. 

Since 1999, Family Behavioral Resources has been partnering with communities in an effort to improve the quality of life for individuals and families. With individualized recovery at their core, FBR-AERI collaborates with their consumers to provide services that are tailored to each person’s individual needs. FBR-AERI offers a diversified treatment approach to behavioral health and continues to expand treatment options to meet the growing needs of their communities.

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Access Family Services

Year Founded: 1997 Year Acquired: 2020

AFS offers community-based, school-based and outpatient behavioral health and autism services in North Carolina and South Carolina.  AFS is a proud subsidiary of Pathways Health and Community Support.  Pathways allows for additional clinical expertise and financial resources to strengthen our overall quality and sustainability.

AFS offers a comprehensive array of intensive family and individual services to stabilize the living environment reduce out-of-home placement and unify the family. Comprehensive services are delivered to children, adults and families with serious behavioral and emotional needs based on a mental health or autism diagnosis. Most of their services are delivered in the home. Additional school-based and office-based services are offered in several clinical programs.  Access Family Services, Inc., is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitative Facilities, certified as a critical access behavioral health agency and licensed by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

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WinCup

Year Founded: 1962 Year Acquired: 2020

Based outside of Atlanta, Georgia, WinCup is a leading manufacturer of disposable foodservice dine-in and takeout to-go products, such as cups, bowls, containers, lids, straws and stirrers. WinCup is the only US manufacturer of biodegradable foam cups through its Vio® brand; and has recently launched Phade®, the world’s first marine biodegradable, soil biodegradable, home and industrial compostable straw that looks and feels like a traditional straw. Phade® recently won the Plastics Industry Association 2020 Innovation in Bioplastics Award. The company has broad market access across all foodservice channels of distribution and is a trusted producer for many strategic national brands. WinCup proudly operates eight manufacturing facilities across the US committed to delivering high-quality products and superior customer service.

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Keypoint Intelligence

Year Founded: 1961 Year Acquired: 2019

Keypoint Intelligence is the global data and market intelligence leader for the digital imaging industry. The company is the authoritative provider of test based analytical information, competitive intelligence and sales enablement to the digital imaging industry. Its portfolio of products and services covers hardware, software, consumables and document management. Along with providing clients access to a range of SaaS tools and platforms, the company offers the most comprehensive independent research and data in the industry.

Keypoint Intelligence supports the industry’s leading Original Equipment Manufacturers, Independent Software Vendors and more than 2,000 dealers and leasing companies active in the digital imaging industry. The company’s core platform, bliQ, is based on its sophisticated and proprietary analytical testing capabilities, powering a product offering that includes field and laboratory test reports, product evaluations and outsourced testing services. In addition, Keypoint Intelligence is widely recognized as the leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the imaging, document solutions, production print, and digital media industries.

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Sustainable Solutions Group

Year Founded: 2009 Year Acquired: 2019

Founded in 2009, Sustainable Solutions Group (SSG) is leading the industry in commercial waste reduction and recycling solutions nationwide. As one of the fastest-growing companies of its kind, SSG is dedicated to developing comprehensive waste reduction programs for its clients by increasing efficiency and reducing costs. SSG continues to build successful relationships with a large portfolio of commercial clients comprised of retail centers, enclosed malls, office buildings, hotels, and mixed-use properties among many others.

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Microcel

Year Founded: 1989 Year Acquired: 2018

Acquired by Atar Capital in 2018, Microcel is a Canadian full-service distribution business that represents some of the most innovative brands and products in the world.  Global brands such as Fitbit, Anker, Tile, Polaroid, Logitech, Belkin, Beurer, Goal Zero, and many more, partner with Microcel to drive their sales, brand expansion, retail activation, online/e-commerce, distribution and logistics. 

Microcel is a leader in driving collaborative and strategic partnerships across all channels of distribution in Canada; from big-box retailers (Walmart, Canadian Tire, Best Buy, The Source, Loblaws, Home Depot, MEC, Sport Chek, and more), to regional independents, to Amazon, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer channels,

Microcel has incredible reach and agility.  This unmatched combination of channel expertise, commercial know-how, and best-in-class customer service, has established Microcel as the go-to partner in Canada to bring the world’s leading innovation brands and their products to market.

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Clarvida

Year Founded: 1997 Year Acquired: 2018

Clarvida is one of the largest providers of community based behavioral and social services in America. In 18 states and the District of Columbia, more than 5,000 dedicated Clarvida employees create healthier communities by addressing social determinants of health and providing home and community-based services.

Clarvida was founded in 1997 and provides direct services and case management for clients of all ages, including Youth & Family Services, Adult Services, and Prevention Services.

Healthcare providers are today focused, more than ever, on delivery of patient-centered care that results in optimal outcomes, reduced re-admissions and lower costs. Clarvida provides a focused approach to managing the medical, behavioral and social needs of potentially high-cost healthcare consumers with chronic conditions and complex social challenges. With over 20 years of experience, Clarvida is uniquely positioned to partner with hospitals and physicians to address and lower the additional healthcare costs for those who suffer from medical as well as behavioral and social determinants of health challenges.

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RWS Facility Services

Year Founded: 2012 Year Acquired: 2017

RWS develops and manages end-to-end recycling, waste and sustainability programs for multi-site blue chip customers across North America. RWS is a full-service provider and category manager with an asset light business model. Its customers benefit from market leading technology, action oriented analytics and reporting, and an expertly managed commodities trading platform. RWS is headquartered in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and has offices located in Atlanta, Georgia; Plano, Texas; St. Louis, Missouri; and Los Angeles, California.

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Frontier Integrity Solutions

Year Founded: 1975 Year Acquired: 2016

Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma FIS serves as an independent, outsourced provider of inspection and integrity services for all disciplines of midstream pipeline, pipeline stations, terminals, power plants, tank storage farms, and other energy related fields.

FIS began in 1975 under the name of Cleveland Inspection Services. The Business works with trained and certified professionals to place qualified Inspectors who act as the Designated Operator Representative to supplement the pipeline operators’ management and employees in the construction and implementation of pipeline, power plant, and mechanical integrity projects.

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Maysteel

Year Founded: 1936 Year Acquired: 2013

Maysteel specializes in complex and highly engineered sheet metal enclosures. The Company was founded in 1936 and is based in Wisconsin, but also has a second plant that it operates in Monterey, Mexico. The Company’s enclosures are found in a variety of industries including utility, self-service, alternative energy, information technology, security and more.

Clearwater Gazette

Year Founded: 1950 Year Acquired: 2013

Founded in 1950, the Clearwater Gazette serves the Clearwater, Dunedin, Largo, Belleair, and Indian Rocks Beach communities in Pinellas County, Florida. This investment was sold along with Tampa Media Group to the Tampa Bay Times in May 2016.

The Tampa Tribune

Year Founded: 1895 Year Acquired: 2012

TMG, LLC operated the Tampa Tribune and TBO.com, along with several affiliate newspapers: Centro, Suncoast News and Highlands Today. The Tampa Tribune was a carve out from Media General in 2012 and was subsequently sold to the Tampa Bay Times in May 2016.

Dove Professional Apparel

Year Founded: 1985 Year Acquired: 2009

Dove designs, manufactures, and distributes medical apparel and accessories. The Company is based out of San Diego, California and serves a broad network of medical and educational communities across the US.

Kendrion’s Automotive Division

Year Founded: 1911 Year Acquired: 2024

Kendrion’s Automotive Division designs, manufactures, and delivers intelligent actuators that help advance the global push towards electrification and sustainable energy. Today, these compact and connected actuators are used in wind power, robots, factory automation, electric vehicles, energy distribution and industrial heating processes, supporting the company’s OEM customers around the world in transitioning to safer and cleaner forms of energy. As a technology pioneer and innovator, building on a foundation of over one hundred years of experience, Kendrion’s Automotive Division is driven by a desire to explore creative solutions for the engineering challenges of tomorrow. The company takes broad responsibility for how they source, manufacture, and conduct business. Sustainable business practices are integrated in the company’s processes and embedded in their culture. Rooted in Germany, the company’s footprint extends across Europe to the Americas and Asia.

ProPrintPerformance

Year Founded: 2004 Year Acquired: 2023

ProPrintPerformance originates from a true production background and is specialized in the Digital Production Print Sales and Marketing Development. Their services are designed to enable Sales and Marketing professionals to demonstrate the added value for their customers. Many of the leading manufacturers of Digital Production Printing Solutions value their independence and have partnered with ProPrintPerformance, most of them for more than a decade. Their sales enablement platform, together with their training services, provides customers with confidence and credibility which helps to increase overall sales results.

Karstedt Partners, LLC

Year Founded: 1996 Year Acquired: 2022

Since 1996 Karstedt Partners, LLC has been a trusted source for insights, innovations, and consulting services to constituents in all sectors of the consumer products and packaging supply chain. Brand Owners, Graphic Service Providers, Package Printers, and OEMs have counted on Karstedt Partners counsel and guidance with developing efficient and effective workflows and tools aimed at improving time-to-market and product quality. Building on a corporate reputation of being both visionary and pragmatic, Karstedt Partners offers insightful and actionable guidance to companies looking to; use existing technologies in innovative ways, build new processes or solutions and bring them to market, validate business and technology prospects.

Psychological Assessment and Intervention Services, Inc. (PAIS)

Year Founded: 1991 Year Acquired: 2022

PAIS was founded in 1991 primarily to address individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. The company expanded and now serves clients in 29 counties, supported by seven regional offices in West Virginia. PAIS has over 200 employees and offers person-centered home and community-based services, including direct services and case management for individuals with developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families, along with psychological assessment and general outpatient therapy services for children and adults.

Solero Technologies

Year Founded: 1972 Year Acquired: 2021

Solero Technologies is a leading global supplier of transmission solenoids, engine solenoids, stop-start accumulators, and hydraulic control modules. The business, including its state-of-the-art production facility in Water Valley, Mississippi, along with related sales and engineering operations in Detroit, provides advanced design, prototyping, development, and manufacturing combined with a strong intellectual property portfolio across product categories. The business has built an acclaimed reputation for developing and delivering quality solenoid products to automotive OEMs, the aftermarket, and other industrial sectors, for more than 50 years.

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Human Resource Training

Year Founded: 1981 Year Acquired: 2021

Human Resource Training (HRT) was incorporated in August of 1981 to provide consultation and training in the social services field. Over its history, HRT has expanded its scope to offer a wide range of services in child and adult welfare throughout the state of Arizona. Today, programs offered by HRT include therapeutic foster care, child abuse prevention, and child and adult developmental homes for the developmentally disabled population. These programs serve to strengthen families and make homes safer for children, while HRT works with families from their initial involvement in the system to permanency planning. HRT takes a positive approach to parenting that builds on family strengths when working with children. 

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Renew Consulting

Year Founded: 2004 Year Acquired: 2021

Founded in 2004, Renew Consulting is an industry-leading residential behavioral health company with 18 facilities serving the needs of a broad spectrum of behavioral health residents throughout Northwest Oregon. Renew is a service-driven organization committed to providing customized, person-centered supports for individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health needs.

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Family Behavioral Resources

Year Founded: 1997 Year Acquired: 2020

FBR-AERI is a leading provider of outpatient and community-based behavioral health services.  Acquired by Pathways Health and Community Support in 2020, FBR-AERI’s service offerings align with Pathways’ mission to improve the lives of people by inspiring personal growth, health and wellness. FBR-AERI operates from 30 locations throughout Pennsylvania and is a leading provider of outpatient and community-based behavioral health services. 

Since 1999, Family Behavioral Resources has been partnering with communities in an effort to improve the quality of life for individuals and families. With individualized recovery at their core, FBR-AERI collaborates with their consumers to provide services that are tailored to each person’s individual needs. FBR-AERI offers a diversified treatment approach to behavioral health and continues to expand treatment options to meet the growing needs of their communities.

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Access Family Services

Year Founded: 1997 Year Acquired: 2020

AFS offers community-based, school-based and outpatient behavioral health and autism services in North Carolina and South Carolina.  AFS is a proud subsidiary of Pathways Health and Community Support.  Pathways allows for additional clinical expertise and financial resources to strengthen our overall quality and sustainability.

AFS offers a comprehensive array of intensive family and individual services to stabilize the living environment reduce out-of-home placement and unify the family. Comprehensive services are delivered to children, adults and families with serious behavioral and emotional needs based on a mental health or autism diagnosis. Most of their services are delivered in the home. Additional school-based and office-based services are offered in several clinical programs.  Access Family Services, Inc., is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitative Facilities, certified as a critical access behavioral health agency and licensed by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

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WinCup

Year Founded: 1962 Year Acquired: 2020

Based outside of Atlanta, Georgia, WinCup is a leading manufacturer of disposable foodservice dine-in and takeout to-go products, such as cups, bowls, containers, lids, straws and stirrers. WinCup is the only US manufacturer of biodegradable foam cups through its Vio® brand; and has recently launched Phade®, the world’s first marine biodegradable, soil biodegradable, home and industrial compostable straw that looks and feels like a traditional straw. Phade® recently won the Plastics Industry Association 2020 Innovation in Bioplastics Award. The company has broad market access across all foodservice channels of distribution and is a trusted producer for many strategic national brands. WinCup proudly operates eight manufacturing facilities across the US committed to delivering high-quality products and superior customer service.

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Keypoint Intelligence

Year Founded: 1961 Year Acquired: 2019

Keypoint Intelligence is the global data and market intelligence leader for the digital imaging industry. The company is the authoritative provider of test based analytical information, competitive intelligence and sales enablement to the digital imaging industry. Its portfolio of products and services covers hardware, software, consumables and document management. Along with providing clients access to a range of SaaS tools and platforms, the company offers the most comprehensive independent research and data in the industry.

Keypoint Intelligence supports the industry’s leading Original Equipment Manufacturers, Independent Software Vendors and more than 2,000 dealers and leasing companies active in the digital imaging industry. The company’s core platform, bliQ, is based on its sophisticated and proprietary analytical testing capabilities, powering a product offering that includes field and laboratory test reports, product evaluations and outsourced testing services. In addition, Keypoint Intelligence is widely recognized as the leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the imaging, document solutions, production print, and digital media industries.

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Clarvida

Year Founded: 1997 Year Acquired: 2018

Clarvida is one of the largest providers of community based behavioral and social services in America. In 18 states and the District of Columbia, more than 5,000 dedicated Clarvida employees create healthier communities by addressing social determinants of health and providing home and community-based services.

Clarvida was founded in 1997 and provides direct services and case management for clients of all ages, including Youth & Family Services, Adult Services, and Prevention Services.

Healthcare providers are today focused, more than ever, on delivery of patient-centered care that results in optimal outcomes, reduced re-admissions and lower costs. Clarvida provides a focused approach to managing the medical, behavioral and social needs of potentially high-cost healthcare consumers with chronic conditions and complex social challenges. With over 20 years of experience, Clarvida is uniquely positioned to partner with hospitals and physicians to address and lower the additional healthcare costs for those who suffer from medical as well as behavioral and social determinants of health challenges.

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Frontier Integrity Solutions

Year Founded: 1975 Year Acquired: 2016

Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma FIS serves as an independent, outsourced provider of inspection and integrity services for all disciplines of midstream pipeline, pipeline stations, terminals, power plants, tank storage farms, and other energy related fields.

FIS began in 1975 under the name of Cleveland Inspection Services. The Business works with trained and certified professionals to place qualified Inspectors who act as the Designated Operator Representative to supplement the pipeline operators’ management and employees in the construction and implementation of pipeline, power plant, and mechanical integrity projects.

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Sustainable Solutions Group

Year Founded: 2009 Year Acquired: 2019

Founded in 2009, Sustainable Solutions Group (SSG) is leading the industry in commercial waste reduction and recycling solutions nationwide. As one of the fastest-growing companies of its kind, SSG is dedicated to developing comprehensive waste reduction programs for its clients by increasing efficiency and reducing costs. SSG continues to build successful relationships with a large portfolio of commercial clients comprised of retail centers, enclosed malls, office buildings, hotels, and mixed-use properties among many others.

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Microcel

Year Founded: 1989 Year Acquired: 2018

Acquired by Atar Capital in 2018, Microcel is a Canadian full-service distribution business that represents some of the most innovative brands and products in the world.  Global brands such as Fitbit, Anker, Tile, Polaroid, Logitech, Belkin, Beurer, Goal Zero, and many more, partner with Microcel to drive their sales, brand expansion, retail activation, online/e-commerce, distribution and logistics. 

Microcel is a leader in driving collaborative and strategic partnerships across all channels of distribution in Canada; from big-box retailers (Walmart, Canadian Tire, Best Buy, The Source, Loblaws, Home Depot, MEC, Sport Chek, and more), to regional independents, to Amazon, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer channels,

Microcel has incredible reach and agility.  This unmatched combination of channel expertise, commercial know-how, and best-in-class customer service, has established Microcel as the go-to partner in Canada to bring the world’s leading innovation brands and their products to market.

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RWS Facility Services

Year Founded: 2012 Year Acquired: 2017

RWS develops and manages end-to-end recycling, waste and sustainability programs for multi-site blue chip customers across North America. RWS is a full-service provider and category manager with an asset light business model. Its customers benefit from market leading technology, action oriented analytics and reporting, and an expertly managed commodities trading platform. RWS is headquartered in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and has offices located in Atlanta, Georgia; Plano, Texas; St. Louis, Missouri; and Los Angeles, California.

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Maysteel

Year Founded: 1936 Year Acquired: 2013

Maysteel specializes in complex and highly engineered sheet metal enclosures. The Company was founded in 1936 and is based in Wisconsin, but also has a second plant that it operates in Monterey, Mexico. The Company’s enclosures are found in a variety of industries including utility, self-service, alternative energy, information technology, security and more.

Clearwater Gazette

Year Founded: 1950 Year Acquired: 2013

Founded in 1950, the Clearwater Gazette serves the Clearwater, Dunedin, Largo, Belleair, and Indian Rocks Beach communities in Pinellas County, Florida. This investment was sold along with Tampa Media Group to the Tampa Bay Times in May 2016.

The Tampa Tribune

Year Founded: 1895 Year Acquired: 2012

TMG, LLC operated the Tampa Tribune and TBO.com, along with several affiliate newspapers: Centro, Suncoast News and Highlands Today. The Tampa Tribune was a carve out from Media General in 2012 and was subsequently sold to the Tampa Bay Times in May 2016.

Dove Professional Apparel

Year Founded: 1985 Year Acquired: 2009

Dove designs, manufactures, and distributes medical apparel and accessories. The Company is based out of San Diego, California and serves a broad network of medical and educational communities across the US.