Venture • Distribution

Advantage Capital Partners Invests In Rucker s Candy

On December 16, 2007, growth capital firm Advantage Capital Partners invested in distribution company Rucker s Candy

Investment Context
  • This is Advantage Capital Partners’ 1st transaction in the Distribution sector.
  • This is Advantage Capital Partners’ 62nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Advantage Capital Partners’ 2nd transaction in Illinois.

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Investment Summary

Date December 16, 2007
Target Rucker s Candy
Sector Distribution
Investor(s) Advantage Capital Partners
Deal Type Venture

Target Company

Rucker s Candy

Bridgeport, Illinois, United States
Rucker's Candy is a distributor of candies. Rucker's provides full service, direct store delivery of confectionery and snack products to a variety of retail outlets including farm and ranch stores and outdoor sporting goods stores. Rucker's Candy was founded in 1985 and is based in Bridgeport, Illinois.
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Investor Overview 1

Investor

Advantage Capital Partners

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1992
PE ASSETS 2.6B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Advantage Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing growth capital to a variety of companies. The Firm's geographic coverage includes Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Texas, Wisconsin and Washington DC. Advantage looks to initially commit $0.5 to $2 million per investment and can provide mezzanine debt in addition to equity capital. Areas of interest include communications, information technology, life science, and energy. Advantage Capital was formed in 1992 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.


Deal Context for Investor #
Overall 62 of 329
Sector: Distribution 1 of 4
Type: Venture 43 of 125
State: Illinois 2 of 22
Country: United States 62 of 325
Year: 2007 15 of 16
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-12-01 Federation Software

Denver, Colorado, United States

Federation Software, Inc., provides a Global Content Repository (GCR) for engineering product data content. The GCR is a software solution, which creates a network of cooperating servers that maintain product content repositories distributed across manufacturing organizations and their suppliers. The GCR represents a new and important category within the fast growing Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC) market. Cordys has acquired Federation Software in December 2007

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-12-20 SensorTran

Austin, Texas, United States

SensorTran is an ISO 9001 certified, global supplier of fiber optic-based distributed monitoring solutions. Customers benefiting from SensorTran's distributed temperature sensing (DTS) technology include many of the world's largest energy providers. DTS systems, which can be customized for any language, have applications in downhole oil and gas, transmission and distribution power cable monitoring, pipeline flow assurance and leak detection, and environmental monitoring.

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