WJ Partners
WJ Partners is a private investment firm based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, founded in 2008. The firm is dedicated to growing companies and creating long-term value through its investments, which are made exclusively using its own capital. This approach allows WJ Partners to engage in each opportunity as a long-term collaboration, free from the pressures of a mandated exit timeline. The firm focuses on strengthening the management of its portfolio companies by providing essential financial, strategic, and operational expertise. WJ Partners primarily invests in sectors such as business and professional services, consumer products and services, specialty finance, and industrial services, utilizing strategies like buyouts, management buyouts, add-ons, recapitalization, and growth capital.
Private Equity Round in 2019
Founded in 1973 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Power-Utility Products Co. (PUPCO) is a distributor and servicer of strut channel, cable tray, fittings, and associated components used in electrical infrastructure. With locations in Charlotte and Norfolk, Virginia, PUPCO serves a national customer base including power plants, data centers, solar farms, healthcare facilities, and industrial construction. PUPCO prides itself in consulting with customers to provide just-in-time, comprehensive product solution sets.
Lowcountry Breakfast Services, LLC operates a chain of franchised breakfast and lunch restaurants. The company offers various dishes such as sandwiches, waffles, french toasts, burgers, wraps and platters. Lowcountry Breakfast Services, LLC also provide catering services. The company was founded in 1986 and is based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Mobile Communications has been established as a major market communications service and solution provider. Mobile Communications has retained a philosophy and approach dedicated to a personal level of customer service thought to be gone by the wayside in today's large corporation dominated environment, all the while pacing the development and implementation of dynamically emergent technologies. Specializing in electronically oriented communications solutions, Mobile Communications has dozens of strategic partnerships with product and solution manufacturers and is proud to be recognized as an authorized Motorola Total Solutions Provider.
Private Equity Round in 2012
Pure Barre, LLC is a fitness company that operates over 450 studios across the United States and Canada. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Spartanburg, South Carolina, it specializes in barre-inspired boutique fitness classes that focus on low-impact, full-body workouts. The Pure Barre technique utilizes the ballet barre to perform small isometric movements designed to create long, lean muscles, making it accessible to a wide range of fitness levels. In addition to in-studio classes, Pure Barre offers at-home workout DVDs, exercise equipment, and apparel. The company also provides franchise opportunities, supporting franchisees with training, marketing, and business consulting services.
Private Equity Round in 2009
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Global Medical Imaging (GMI) has rapidly grown into the largest, non-OEM ultrasound and nuclear imaging technology provider in the United States. The company prides itself in “Lowering The Cost of High-Quality Healthcare™.” GMI has also built the leading R&D probe repair facility in the world, and developed capabilities to fully support all major manufacturer platforms found in private practice or hospital settings. GMI has a national network of coverage and employs experienced imaging professionals at its locations in Charlotte, N.C. and Houston, Texas.