Oak Hill Capital Partners, founded in 1986 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, is a private equity firm that specializes in investments across various sectors, including services, industrials, consumer, media, and communications. The firm primarily targets middle-market companies, focusing on buyouts, recapitalization, and complex turnaround situations. Oak Hill seeks to invest between $10 million and $400 million, typically taking a majority stake in its portfolio companies. Its investment strategy encompasses a wide range of industries, such as healthcare, technology, education, and transportation, among others. With additional offices in New York, Bangalore, and Menlo Park, the firm has established a significant presence in North America and aims to capitalize on opportunities that arise in both the U.S. and global economies.
Lit partners with real estate developers, municipal, county and other governmental entities, as well as a variety of private partners to deploy last-mile fiber optic network infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses connected to our networks to choose their internet service provider and be automatically provisioned through a web based portal. Our networks also support a wide variety of other services in addition to internet, including but not limited to voice, TV, small cell, DAS, and wireless backhaul, telehealth, home security, home automation, and public safety applications such as gunshot detection sensors and smart surveillance systems.
Trinity Consultants is an environmental consulting company that specializes in industrial air quality issues. With offices nationwide and in China and the Middle East, we help organizations comply with applicable environmental regulatory requirements and optimize environmental performance for long-term sustainability. Trinity provides value to its clients in the areas of regulatory and sustainability consulting, environmental modeling software products and services, EH&S staffing assistance, and EH&S data management solutions.
Asheboro, N.C.-based Technimark is a leading, global provider of custom rigid plastic packaging and components. For over 30 years, Technimark has provided customers with customized, end-to-end solutions based on technology and innovation. With facilities in the United States, Mexico, China and Germany, the Company delivers high quality products on a global basis primarily for consumer packaged goods, household care and specialty industrial customers.
MetroNet is a customer-focused company providing cutting-edge fiber optic telecommunication services, including high-speed Fiber Internet, full-featured Fiber Phone, Fiber IPTV with a wide variety of programming, and a home security product called MetroNet SmartHome.
GoNetspeed is a provider of high-speed fiber optic Internet connectivity, catering to both residential and business customers. Founded by Frank Chiaino, who previously established Fibertech Networks, the company leverages extensive experience in building fiber networks. With a management team that has decades of experience in the industry, GoNetspeed is dedicated to delivering exceptional customer service while offering a range of services, including telephone, long-distance calling, and broadband internet. The company also provides television packages that include local networks, sports, news, and entertainment channels, ensuring clients remain connected to the outside world.
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Galway Holdings specializes in the fields of financial services, finance, and insurance. Galway manages over $7 billion of insurance premiums, employs over 3,100 associates, and operates over 100 offices serving all 50 states.
Race Communications, Inc., a fiber-to-the-premises operator, provides internet and communication services. The company serves homes, small businesses, and large enterprises. Race Communications, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in South San Francisco, California.
OTELCO is a publicly-traded (NASDAQ: OTEL) telecommunications provider offering a full menu of business and residential voice and data communications solutions. Our footprint spans seven states, with specific products and services available either statewide or regionally, including Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, Vermont, and West Virginia. For more than a century, the OTELCO family of communication companies has been providing rural communities with cutting edge technology, first with the telephone in the late 1800s, and today with traditional and digital communication technology and high speed Internet.
Mercer Advisors Inc. is a total wealth management firm that provides fee-only comprehensive investment management, financial planning, family office services, retirement benefits and distribution planning, estate planning, and tax management services to affluent individuals. Mercer Advisors is the parent company of Mercer Global Advisors, one of the largest Registered Investment Advisors and financial planning firms in the U.S. with nearly $6 billion in assets under management and more than 4,300 clients.
Berlin Packaging manufactures and supplies glass, plastic, and metal containers. It offers plastic bottles, jars, cans, tins, pails, dispensing systems, and tubes. The company provides a range of packaging products and services designed to streamline packaging supply chains and grow profits. Berlin Packaging is an ISO 9001 certified and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism certified. Berlin Packaging was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
VetCor, Inc. provides veterinary services. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Hingham, Massachusetts. It has hospitals in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Headquartered in Belton, MO, Safe Fleet owns a portfolio of brands that provides safety-oriented components and integrated solutions for fleet vehicle manufacturers and operators around the world. These brands serve five major markets including: emergency services, bus and rail, truck and trailer, utility, and industrial. With almost 1000 employees, the Safe Fleet family of brands operates over 500,000 square feet of manufacturing space and targets markets with increasing demand for operator, passenger and pedestrian safety
Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) is a retail property and casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage and consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco. Established in 2007, EPIC has grown significantly, increasing its revenue from $12 million to an estimated $200 million through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions. The firm operates over ten offices across California, as well as locations in Denver, Colorado, and New York, employing more than 300 team members. Recognized as one of the top retail insurance brokers in the United States, EPIC ranks among the top 20 and is included in the top 50 globally. The company emphasizes a values-based, client-focused culture that enhances employee satisfaction and customer service excellence, earning accolades as a “Best Place to Work” in various regions and nationally within the insurance industry. EPIC provides a range of services, including commercial property and casualty, employee benefits, specialty program insurance, and private client services, while pursuing further expansion and revenue growth.
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Sovernet Communications, a middle mile fiber provider that serves Vermont, New York and southwest New Hampshire, creating a larger Northeast fiber provider that will be a bigger competitive threat to incumbent players Verizon and FairPoint Communications.
Oxford Networks is a Maine based technology company providing phone, Internet and data services to businesses and residents across the State of Maine and beyond. For over 100 years, Oxford Networks has been connecting people and helping to grow businesses through it's technology services. With a robust and redundant Fiber Optic Network running from Bangor to Boston, Oxford Networks supports medical facilities, educational institutions, banks, restaurants and all kinds of businesses in between. Oxford Networks Fiber based technology and services are quickly making Maine a 21st century technology state.
FirstLight is a provider of advanced fiber-optic telecommunications services, offering a comprehensive range of products that include dedicated Internet access, Ethernet, voice services, cloud communications, and data center solutions. The company designs, builds, and maintains fiber-based communications networks, catering to a diverse clientele of national cellular providers, competitive local exchange carriers, and enterprises across various sectors such as healthcare, education, banking, and government. FirstLight's services are aimed at delivering high bandwidth connectivity and reliable communication solutions to meet the needs of its customers. The company is backed by Riverside Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston.
Imagine! is North America's leading provider of printed in-store marketing solutions. The company's retail and brand-based marketing services breadth is unparalleled, enabling Imagine! to execute highly recurring, large scale point-of-purchase / point-of-sale displays and in-store signage campaigns. Imagine!'s single-source capabilities include design, campaign production, kitting and fulfillment. Proprietary, technology based services enable Imagine! to disintermediate customers' traditional, complicated supply chains to enhance quality, improve speed-to-market and lower total delivered cost. Fortune 500 companies, Fortune 1000 retailers, quick-service restaurants, convenience stores and branded consumer goods companies depend on Imagine!'s customer-integrated store profiling, kitting, merchandising, inventory management and on demand e-commerce services to execute mission critical in-store campaigns. Imagine! was founded in 1988 and is based in Minneapolis, MN.
Berlin Packaging manufactures and supplies glass, plastic, and metal containers. It offers plastic bottles, jars, cans, tins, pails, dispensing systems, and tubes. The company provides a range of packaging products and services designed to streamline packaging supply chains and grow profits. Berlin Packaging is an ISO 9001 certified and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism certified. Berlin Packaging was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Pulsant (formerly Lumison) operates in the growing managed data center services and cloud computing market. It typically provides managed services where it acts as the outsourced partner responsible for managing clients' IT infrastructure, hosting critical IT hardware in its secure data center physical facilities, providing "cloud" based infrastructure services and offering network managed services, which allow clients to connect securely to the internet and other locations. Pulsant has ten data centers across six locations in the UK, making it one of the largest suppliers of data center services in the UK.
Pulsant (formerly Lumison) operates in the growing managed data center services and cloud computing market. It typically provides managed services where it acts as the outsourced partner responsible for managing clients' IT infrastructure, hosting critical IT hardware in its secure data center physical facilities, providing "cloud" based infrastructure services and offering network managed services, which allow clients to connect securely to the internet and other locations. Pulsant has ten data centers across six locations in the UK, making it one of the largest suppliers of data center services in the UK.
Accolade, Inc. develops technology-driven solutions designed to assist individuals in navigating the complexities of the healthcare system and workplace benefits in the United States. The company provides a cloud-based platform that integrates support from a team of health assistants and clinicians, including nurses and behavioral health specialists, to offer personalized guidance. Primarily serving employers, Accolade enables employees and their families to access a centralized resource for their health and benefits needs. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, the company focuses on improving healthcare experiences, outcomes, and costs through personalized advocacy and engagement strategies.
Wave is a leading provider of video, internet and phone services on the West Coast, serving customers in communities in Washington, Oregon, and California. Wave, founded in 2003, is part of WaveDivision Holdings, LLC, which currently serves over 455,000 residential and business customers in Washington, Oregon, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area. WaveDivision Holdings is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. Owned and operated by local industry leaders, WaveDivision Holdings supports its customers with decades of cable know-how. Its mission is to provide 100% of its cable systems with the latest technologies and upgrades including high-speed internet, digital cable, home phone service, international programming, DVR, HDTV, and TV On Demand services.
Southern Air Holdings, Inc. is a prominent air cargo carrier that specializes in providing air charter and aviation solutions to a diverse range of blue-chip customers globally. Founded in 1947 and based in Florence, Kentucky, the company offers a variety of services including aircraft, crew, maintenance, and insurance solutions. Its operations range from short-term charter flights to comprehensive long-term agreements, catering to seasonal market demands and providing aircraft coverage. Southern Air serves shippers, charter brokers, freight forwarders, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations, delivering tailored air charter services across various industries. Additionally, the company offers contract solutions for both ad hoc and long-term charter operations, including support for government initiatives and humanitarian relief efforts. In July 2007, Southern Air, Inc. was rebranded as Southern Air Holdings, Inc., and as of 2016, it operates as a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc.
Security Networks is a full service life safety solutions company, specializing in sales, installation, maintenance and monitoring of commercial and residential Burglar Alarms, Fire Alarms, Medical Alert, Access Control and CCTV systems. Security Networks owns its own, state-of-the-art, UL-listed central monitoring station, allowing us to offer the latest in high-tech monitoring services for our customers coast-to-coast.
Accolade, Inc. develops technology-driven solutions designed to assist individuals in navigating the complexities of the healthcare system and workplace benefits in the United States. The company provides a cloud-based platform that integrates support from a team of health assistants and clinicians, including nurses and behavioral health specialists, to offer personalized guidance. Primarily serving employers, Accolade enables employees and their families to access a centralized resource for their health and benefits needs. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, the company focuses on improving healthcare experiences, outcomes, and costs through personalized advocacy and engagement strategies.
Avolon Holdings operates as an international aircraft leasing company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with regional offices in the United States, China, Dubai, and Singapore. Founded in 2010, Avolon specializes in leasing a diverse portfolio of new aircraft sourced directly from Boeing and Airbus, as well as younger aircraft acquired through sale and leaseback transactions. The company serves a global clientele by providing aircraft leasing and lease management services to airlines and aircraft investors. As of mid-2015, Avolon had an owned, managed, and committed fleet of 260 aircraft, catering to 56 customers across 33 countries.
Dave & Buster is a professional event planner that offers a combination of games, sports-viewing, food, and drinks. Founded in 1982, Dave & Buster is based in Dallas, Texas.
The Hillman Cos.
Acquisition in 2010
Founded in 1964 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hillman is a leading value-added distributor of over 60,000 SKUs, including fasteners, key duplication systems, engraved tags and related hardware items to over 20,000 retail customers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and South America, including home improvement centers, mass merchants, national and regional hardware stores, pet supply stores and other retailers. Hillman provides a comprehensive solution to its retail customers for managing SKU intensive, complex home improvement categories. Hillman also offers its customers additional services, such as inventory management and in-store merchandising services.
With 22 data centers and growing, ViaWest is one of the largest privately-held data center and managed services providers in North America. From our Denver, Colorado headquarters, we oversee enterprise-class data centers in Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Texas, and Nevada, providing a comprehensive suite of colocation, complex hosting, cloud and managed services to business of all sizes nationwide.
SVTC provides its novel-silicon development customers access to two state-of-the-art, IP-secure development fabs – in San Jose, California, and Austin, Texas – with a full complement of 200 mm (8-inch) and 300 mm (12-inch) advanced CMOS and MEMS fabrication equipment, designed to speed the development of best-of-class solutions.
Oversee.net is an innovative technology company that owns and operates a portfolio of consumer web and mobile properties designed to help users discover, compare, and save. Oversee has been at the forefront in digital customer acquisition for nearly two decades, connecting up to 25 million in-market consumers each month to top consumer brands. The company's newest flagship web property, GoDoTrip.com, enables visitors to discover, book and share personalized, money-saving travel experiences without the hassle of organizing a trip across multiple travel sites. GoDoTrip is part of a growing portfolio of travel brands and mobile properties which also includes AirportParking.com and AboutAirportParking.com.
Validus DC Systems is a leading provider of fully integrated Direct Current (DC) power infrastructure for datacenters and telecommunications facilities. The company's “Hybrid Power†technology combines the best attributes of Alternating Current (AC) system design and DC energy efficiency, offering scalability, reliability and modularity, all while improving energy efficiency by up to 40%. By deploying Validus' solutions, based on the global standard for DC power, customers are able to increase processing power and server densities in new and existing facilities at a lower total cost of ownership due to reduced complexity, greater uptime and reduced power and cooling costs. Validus DC Systems, LLC is headquartered in Brookfield, CT
Firth Rixson is a prominent global manufacturer specializing in engineered metal products and complex components for high technology industries, with a strong focus on the aerospace sector. The company supplies its products to various segments within aerospace, including commercial aircraft, business jets, military aircraft, and helicopters. Firth Rixson partners with original equipment manufacturers, ensuring high-quality standards and innovative solutions tailored to meet the demands of the aerospace market.
AccountNow is a financial services company that specializes in providing prepaid card solutions for approximately 40 million consumers in the United States who lack traditional banking relationships or established credit. By offering alternatives to conventional checking accounts, AccountNow enables these individuals to access essential financial and payment systems. The company's offerings include Visa prepaid cards and various bill payment services, all designed to help consumers manage their finances more effectively. AccountNow's prepaid cards are issued by The Bancorp Bank or MetaBank, allowing them to be used wherever Visa or MasterCard is accepted. This positions AccountNow as a valuable resource for those seeking financial services outside of traditional banking.
Jacobson is one of the largest value-added warehousing 3PL providers in North America with integrated domestic transportation management capabilities. Jacobson had annual revenue of approximately $800 million USD in 2013, 9.5% EBITDA margin and 5,500 employees. Jacobson is a successful and profitable company, with a flexible business model, experienced management team and driven by operational excellence.
MarketTools, Inc. was acquired by MetrixLab BV. MarketTools, Inc. designs, develops, and offers online marketing research software and services. The company offers market research software suite, including Survey Manager, an online market research survey process that allows users to build online surveys, deploy them, collect the results, analyze the data, and share findings with their colleagues; Panel Manager, a panel management software to create an online market research panel; and Community Manager, a market research online community. It also provides brand, media, and advertising research solutions, including advertisement creative test, interactive and advertisement campaign evaluation, cross media optimization, brand and campaign tracking, brand health monitoring, and advertisement concept creation; innovation and shopper research, such as market exploration, innovation, and in-store activation; eBusiness performance research in the areas of Website performance monitor, in/out lab usability test, in home usability test, usability expert review, Website competitor benchmark, focus group panel, Website concept test, and interactive campaign evaluation; and customer experience management solutions. It serves banks, insurance companies, consumer goods companies, and many others in the United States and internationally.
Perfect Commerce provides a SaaS spend management solutions and the open supplier network. The company's solutions include PerfectSource, which creates value from effective supply management; PerfectProcure, which establishes control of the procure-to-pay process; and PerfectShop, which enhances visibility of company-approved goods and services. Perfect Commerce solutions specialize in procurement operations by identifying organizational needs and requirements, as well as capturing and analyzing empirical spend and marketplace data to develop a suite of business solutions tailored to each organization's operating environment. In addition, the company's solutions include Open Supplier Network, a hosted service that connects buyers and suppliers to facilitate B2B transactions; and Commerce One Procurement tool, a behind-the-firewall solution that manages and controls the procurement and purchasing process. It serves chemicals, retail, energy, financial services, health/medical, hospitality, food products, education, manufacturing, technology, and transportation industries.
AccountNow is a financial services company that specializes in providing prepaid card solutions for approximately 40 million consumers in the United States who lack traditional banking relationships or established credit. By offering alternatives to conventional checking accounts, AccountNow enables these individuals to access essential financial and payment systems. The company's offerings include Visa prepaid cards and various bill payment services, all designed to help consumers manage their finances more effectively. AccountNow's prepaid cards are issued by The Bancorp Bank or MetaBank, allowing them to be used wherever Visa or MasterCard is accepted. This positions AccountNow as a valuable resource for those seeking financial services outside of traditional banking.
Duane Reade takes its name from the Company's first successful full-service drugstore, which opened in 1960 on Broadway between Duane and Reade Streets in Manhattan. (Yes, we know they don’t intersect…it makes for a better picture!) Since then, Duane Reade has grown to become the most recognized drugstore chain in metropolitan New York. Today, the Company operates over 250 stores in commercial and residential neighborhoods throughout New York.
Duane Reade's conveniently located stores carry an extensive assortment of items, including those from the pharmacy as well as vitamins, nutritional products, cosmetics, greeting cards and photo processing.
Atlantic Broadband Finance, LLC, along with its subsidiaries, operates cable systems across several states, including Pennsylvania, Florida, Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware, South Carolina, and New York. The company provides a variety of services, including cable television with options for basic and premium channels, pay-per-view, and video on demand. It also offers high-speed internet services, Wi-Fi solutions for homes and small businesses, and cable telephony for residential customers. Atlantic Broadband enhances its offerings with value-added services such as remote storage, equipment rental, and installation support. In addition to its core services, the company engages in local advertising on satellite-delivered channels. Established in 2003 and headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts, Atlantic Broadband aims to deliver reliable services with strong local support to its residential and business customers.
Liquid Engines provides software and services that empower corporate tax professionals to develop and manage world-class tax organizations. Today Liquid Engines is a recognized leader and innovator in corporate tax technology. Our comprehensive tax management solutions enable tax teams to transform their operations by evolving from manually intensive methods to highly automated processes, from single users to collaborative problem solving, and from questionable quality to certainty in data. Global 1000 companies in retail, financial services, manufacturing, and other industries rely on Liquid
IPWireless is a pioneer in developing and delivering next generation wireless solutions, including silicon, software, and network infrastructure, based on 3GPP, the world's leading mobile standard. They provide some of the world's largest mobile network operators, governments, and device vendors with innovative solutions that deliver the performance, reliability, and compelling business economics they require so they can stay ahead of their competition and offer their subscribers the value-added services they demand.
Intelligent Markets, Inc. is a prominent provider of order management software tailored for broker-dealers in the institutional financial markets. Established in 1999 and headquartered in New York, the company specializes in comprehensive trading solutions that include the ALTA system for convertible bonds and the BuySideDirect Convertible Securities Trading System, which was the first electronic platform dedicated to trading convertible securities and their underlying stocks. Intelligent Markets offers its technology through software licensing and full ASP hosting, featuring automated contingent order execution and computer learning technology that identifies transaction opportunities for financial professionals. Its robust and scalable architecture is designed to meet the specific needs of securities dealers, dealer-consortia, and exchanges.
Knowledge Networks, Inc., a consumer information company, delivers consumer insights and research to researchers and marketers. It offers Knowledge Networks/SRI, which provides media research; and Knowledge Networks/PDI, which provides promotion research. The company also provides practices in media, marketing, advertising, and government and academic studies. In addition, it involves in study designs, analytics, and custom panel creation. Further, the company delivers online research through Internet panel. It serves consumer packaged goods and retail, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, government and academic research, media, yellow pages research, and financial services industries. Knowledge Networks was formerly known as InterSurvey, Inc. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Menlo Park, California.
Telephia is a provider of research on consumer usage data in the telecom and mobile media markets. Telephia’s portfolio of marketing and service quality information products helps mobile service operators, device manufacturers, infrastructure companies, and enterprises make better business decisions. Mobile companies use Telephia information products to track their position in the mobile marketplace; optimize investment decisions; and drive adoption and usage of their services and products. Telephia was acquired by Nielsen Mobile in June 2007.
Intelligent Markets, Inc. is a prominent provider of order management software tailored for broker-dealers in the institutional financial markets. Established in 1999 and headquartered in New York, the company specializes in comprehensive trading solutions that include the ALTA system for convertible bonds and the BuySideDirect Convertible Securities Trading System, which was the first electronic platform dedicated to trading convertible securities and their underlying stocks. Intelligent Markets offers its technology through software licensing and full ASP hosting, featuring automated contingent order execution and computer learning technology that identifies transaction opportunities for financial professionals. Its robust and scalable architecture is designed to meet the specific needs of securities dealers, dealer-consortia, and exchanges.
Metrika Design is recognized for its work in architecture, urban Design, event sculpting, design and strategic thinking. Today different professionals, including architects, designers, planners, engineers and makers work collaborate with Metrika Design in the ti-county area of Miami Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Metrika Design provides professional Design services, conceptual design, visualization, and technical document production in the fields of urban design, architecture, event production and sculpture. Their design experience ranges from large residential developments to single family units, commercial and educational architecture, aviation structures to Interiors as well as furniture & production design for high-end and luxury brands. They have worked with traditional building systems and cutting edge prefab modular concrete systems.
Telephia is a provider of research on consumer usage data in the telecom and mobile media markets. Telephia’s portfolio of marketing and service quality information products helps mobile service operators, device manufacturers, infrastructure companies, and enterprises make better business decisions. Mobile companies use Telephia information products to track their position in the mobile marketplace; optimize investment decisions; and drive adoption and usage of their services and products. Telephia was acquired by Nielsen Mobile in June 2007.
eGain (NASDAQ: EGAN) is the leading provider of cloud customer engagement hub software. For over a decade, eGain solutions have helped improve customer experience, optimize service process and grow sales—across the web, social, and phone channels. Hundreds of the world's largest companies rely on eGain to transform their fragmented sales engagement and customer service operations into unified Customer Engagement Hubs (CEHs).
Align Technology, Inc. is a medical device company that specializes in the design, manufacture, and marketing of Invisalign clear aligners and iTero intraoral scanners and services. Its primary product, Invisalign, effectively addresses malocclusion through a series of clear, removable appliances that gradually shift teeth into the desired position. The company offers a variety of Invisalign products tailored to different patient needs, including options for teens and simpler cases. Additionally, Align Technology provides ancillary products such as retainers and dental tools. The iTero scanners facilitate digital impressions and assist in orthodontic and restorative procedures, enhancing treatment planning for dental professionals. Operating in two segments—Clear Aligner and Scanners and Services—Align Technology serves a global market, distributing its products to orthodontists and dentists in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Japan. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Align Technology has established itself as a leader in the clear aligner market, having treated over 14 million patients to date.
TravelCenters of America (TA) is the largest publicly traded full-service travel center company in the United States, with approximately 250 full service locations along the Interstate Highway System in 43 U.S. states and in Canada, plus stand-alone convenience stores and restaurants in more than 10 states, as of 2018.
Andale, Inc., founded in 1999 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, specializes in providing auction management and research services for online sellers. The company offers a range of tools designed to assist auction sellers and small to medium-sized online businesses. These tools include auction automation and management services, pricing research and analytics, selling recommendations, and solutions for listing distribution across shopping sites. Additionally, Andale provides downloadable software suites tailored for online merchants, enhancing their operational efficiency. The company's services cater to a diverse clientele, including casual sellers and professional auctioneers, across various markets, including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Australia. In 2006, Andale was acquired by Vendio Services, Inc., which expanded its reach and capabilities in the e-commerce sector.
eScout is a web-based e-commerce and e-business network for America's independent businesses and banks. They empower businesses through a group of online services so they can buy, sell, learn and grow.
Caribbean Restaurants
Acquisition in 1999
Caribbean Restaurants, LLC owns and operates Burger King restaurants in Puerto Rico.
American Skiing Company
Post in 1999
American Skiing Company was one of the largest operators of alpine ski, snowboard and golf resorts in the United States. Its resorts included Sunday River and Sugarloaf, in Maine and The Canyons in Utah. The Company believes that it is well-positioned to capitalize on certain favorable recent trends and developments affecting the alpine resort industry in the United States, including: (i) the 66.7 million members of the "baby boom" generation that are now approaching the 40 to 59 year age group where discretionary income, personal wealth and pursuit of leisure activities are maximized (this group is estimated to grow by 16.7% over the next 23 years); (ii) the "echo boom" generation (children of baby boomers) is emerging as a significant economic force as they begin to enter the prime entry age for skiing, snowboarding and other "on-snow" sports; (iii) advances in ski equipment technology such as development of parabolic skis which facilitate learning and make the sport easier to enjoy; (iv) the continued growth of snowboarding as a significant and enduring segment of the industry, which is increasing youth participation in alpine sports; and (v) a greater focus on leisure and fitness. There can be no assurance, however, that such trends and developments will continue to have a favorable impact on the ski industry.
Intelligent Markets, Inc. is a prominent provider of order management software tailored for broker-dealers in the institutional financial markets. Established in 1999 and headquartered in New York, the company specializes in comprehensive trading solutions that include the ALTA system for convertible bonds and the BuySideDirect Convertible Securities Trading System, which was the first electronic platform dedicated to trading convertible securities and their underlying stocks. Intelligent Markets offers its technology through software licensing and full ASP hosting, featuring automated contingent order execution and computer learning technology that identifies transaction opportunities for financial professionals. Its robust and scalable architecture is designed to meet the specific needs of securities dealers, dealer-consortia, and exchanges.
Xpede's mission is to establish and strengthen relationships between financial institutions and their customers through web-based solutions. The company is an Application Service Provider (ASP) that helps lenders quickly establish an online loan presence under their own brand and personalize interactions with their customers. The Internet provides an opportunity to fundamentally change the way financial services are delivered to consumers. Xpede's goal is to enable this change and become the dominant provider of e-commerce solutions to the financial services market. Xpede's innovative software and services solutions web-enable financial processes and optimize the online transaction. Lenders can use these solutions to originate, close and service loans. The software runs on an underlying Java application server and supports a distributed, component-based, thin-client architecture. The server is a highly scaleable transaction processing system that complies with industry standards. Applications are customized for the institutions' specific look and feel and business processes; integrated with legacy back-end systems; and the work flow re-engineered to significantly improve operational efficiencies. Xpede hosts and manages this customized solution on behalf of its customer at a world class data center where the systems are maintained around-the-clock. The company was founded in 1998 and is venture funded by Mayfield Fund, Rosewood Capital and Oak Hill Partners. Xpede's founders include mortgage banking visionaries and veteran entrepreneurs from the Information Technology (IT) industry. In addition, the management team includes successful professionals with financial services and software technology backgrounds.