Capital For Business, Inc. is a private equity firm based in St. Louis, Missouri, with an additional office in Kansas City. Established in 1959, the firm focuses on investments in middle-market, family-owned businesses within the manufacturing and value-added industrial services sectors. Its investment strategies include management buyouts, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and third-party sponsored transactions, typically targeting companies with revenues between $10 million and $100 million and EBITDA ranging from $2 million to $7 million. The firm generally invests between $500,000 and $30 million and prefers to take board positions in its portfolio companies. Capital For Business does not engage with start-ups, unproven technologies, real estate, or financial institutions. The firm aims for exits within five to seven years, typically through sales to management or other buyers, recapitalizations, or initial public offerings. Additionally, the firm maintains reserves for follow-on investments and leverages a broad network within the private equity community to support its portfolio companies.
Vanguard Graphics International provides prepress solutions to the specialty, short-run printing segment of the graphic communications industry. Vanguard Graphics provides computer-to-plate equipment, services, consumables, and software.
Clarion Industries, LLC manufactures and distributes fiberboard and laminate flooring products. It provides medium density fiberboard that is used in the manufacture of furniture, cabinets, door parts, moldings, and millwork; and high density fiberboard that is primarily used as a substrate for flooring products, such as laminate flooring and engineered wood flooring. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Shippenville, Pennsylvania with additional location in Raleigh, North Carolina. As of April 29, 2020, Clarion Industries, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Kaindl Invest GmbH.