TGF Management

TGF Management Corp. is a private equity firm based in Austin, Texas, that focuses on investments in small to middle-market companies. Established in 1992, the firm specializes in strategies such as buy and build, internal expansion, and acquisitions. TGF Management targets mature companies, including family-owned businesses looking to transition and larger firms seeking to divest parts of their operations. The firm typically invests in sectors such as manufacturing, distribution, construction-related industries, industrial services, outsourced business services, and food and consumer products. TGF Management primarily operates in the United States, with a concentration on Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. It generally invests in companies with revenues between $25 million and $250 million and EBITDA ranging from $5 million to $25 million. The firm employs various investment structures, including subordinated debt, preferred stock, and common stock, to acquire either majority or minority stakes in its portfolio companies.

Stephen Soileau

Co-Founder

Barry Twomey

Director and Principal

Janet Waldeier

Chief Financial Officer

4 past transactions

Sterling Foods

Acquisition in 2009
Sterling is a leading supplier of baked gourmet bakery items to the food industry. Sterling's products include a wide variety of specialty and gourmet baked products such as cakes, croissants, bagels, muffins, scones, and various specialty dessert items. Sterling is the largest supplier of shelf-stable bakery products to the U.S. Military and also provides products to nationally recognized restaurant chains throughout the country. Additionally, Sterling is a leading provider of baked goods to the weight management industry and also the K-12 educational market.

ePartners

Venture Round in 2005
ePartners has been giving businesses the power to reach their goals, to grow, and to discover and profit from new areas of potential since 1992. ePartners takes the time to understand your business so it can devise comprehensive solutions—solutions that are tailored to your specific industry and processes and afford a short learning curve for your employees. Empowering your workforce with the tools they need to fulfill their mission and make better decisions, whether they work on the shop floor, at the front desk, or in the executive suite. With help, you align your IT strategy with your business objectives and deploy cost-effective solutions that drive genuine performance improvements across your enterprise.

DISA Global Solutions

Acquisition in 2001
DISA has been providing innovative workplace safety and compliance services for over 25 years. We are a global provider with a client-base of approximately 11,000 client companies around the world. Our services are specifically designed to promote workplace health and safety, while utilizing today's most advanced technologies. DISA is highly committed to quality and service excellence and is ISO 9001:2008 certified. We deliver a broad portfolio of value-added services. Our extensive knowledge and commitment to safety and compliance has positioned our company as a leading provider to safety-sensitive employers around the world. Our service portfolio includes drug and alcohol testing, background screening, occupational health screening, transportation compliance, and safety and substance abuse training.

Total Safety

Private Equity Round in 1995
Total Safety U.S., Inc. is the leading global provider of integrated industrial safety services, strategies and equipment necessary to keep your workers, your facility and the environment safe. We not only deliver complete, cost-effective safety service solutions to our customers as promised and without compromise, but we have the resources and the support to back it up. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with more than 134 locations worldwide in 18 countries, Total Safety has the people, programs and processes to deliver the industry's best industrial safety services and equipment tailored to your specific business needs.