M&A Deal Summary

Alpine Investors Acquires Vionic Group

On October 1, 2012, private equity firm Alpine Investors acquired apparel/textiles company Vionic Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Alpine Investors’ 1st transaction in the Apparel/Textiles sector.
  • This is Alpine Investors’ 16th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Alpine Investors’ 3rd transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • Vionic Group was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2018 for 360M USD.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-10-01
Target Vionic Group
Sector Apparel/Textiles
Buyer(s) Alpine Investors
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Vionic Group

San Rafael, California, United States
Vionic Group LLC is a privately held global company offering product development, research, marketing and distribution of branded footwear, footbeds and educational workshops. Vionic was formed in 1979 and is based in San Rafael, California.

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Buyer

Alpine Investors

San Francisco, California, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2001
PE ASSETS 18.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Alpine Investors is a private investment firm that principally targets small to mid-sized, software and service company acquisitions in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Alpine looks for businesses with cash-flow of $1 to $50 million and will consider both control and non-control positions. Alpine prefers businesses with recurring revenues, identifiable growth opportunities, sustainable margins, and significant barriers to entry. Alpine Investors was established in 2001 and is based in San Francisco, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 16 of 47
Sector: Apparel/Textiles M&A 1 of 1
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 11 of 20
State: California M&A 3 of 10
Country: United States M&A 16 of 47
Year: 2012 M&A 4 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-05-01 Cleo

Rockford, Illinois, United States

Cleo is an ecosystem integration software company whose solutions simplify the movement and integration of critical B2B enterprise data, thereby enabling business agility and business flow visibility. The Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC) is a cloud-based platform that brings end-to-end integration visibility across API, EDI, and non-EDI integrations and gives technical and business users the confidence and capability to rapidly onboard trading partners, enable integration between applications, and accelerate revenue-generating business processes. Cleo was founded in 1976 and is based in Rockford, Illinois.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-10-22 DMS

Portland, Oregon, United States

DMS is a provider of integrated, omni-channel direct marketing solutions to a diverse client base throughout the U.S. DMS serves a variety of end markets including banking, alternative lending, technology and telecom. DMS was founded in 1982 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

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