Capital For Business

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.

Tim Buening

Vice President

Jim Frazer

Operating Partner

John Gilmore

Assistant Vice President

Don Hickerson

Operating Partner

Matt Leinauer

Vice President

Chris Redmond

Senior Vice President

Eddie Trigo

Vice President

Bill Witzofsky

Senior Vice President

3 past transactions

Vanguard Graphics International

Private Equity Round in 2013
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.

Affiliated Metals Company

Venture Round in 1997
Affiliated Metals, a Bralco Metals Company, is the premier Stainless Steel and Aluminum metals distributor along the Wasatch Front.

Clarion Industries

Venture Round in 1997
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.
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