Growth Capital • Beverages

Celerity Partners Invests In O Premium Waters

On February 25, 2004, private equity firm Celerity Partners invested in beverage company O Premium Waters

Investment Context
  • This is Celerity Partners’ 1st transaction in the Beverages sector.
  • This is Celerity Partners’ 5th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Celerity Partners’ 1st transaction in Arizona.
Investment Fate
  • O Premium Waters was sold to a strategic buyer in 2009.

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Investment Summary

Date February 25, 2004
Target O Premium Waters
Sector Beverages
Investor(s) Celerity Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target Company

O Premium Waters

Mesa, Arizona, United States
O Premium Waters has rapidly become the #2 bottled home and office delivery ('HOD') water company in Arizona. Since entering the HOD industry, O Premium Waters has demonstrated its ability to rapidly acquire and retain long-term customers.
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Investor Overview 1

Investor

Celerity Partners

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1995
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Celerity Partners is a private equity firm that has invested equity capital in the change of control transactions of private companies. Celerity Partners typically partner with business owners to provide liquidity to entrepreneur and family-owned businesses, recapitalize existing owners of independent companies or facilitate corporate divestitures. Celerity Partners will consider investment opportunities across a wide range of industries in Healthcare, Contract Manufacturing, Energy Services, Infrastructure, and Environmental Services, and Transportation & Logistics. Celerity Partners was formed in 1995 and is based in Los Angeles, California.


Deal Context for Investor #
Overall 5 of 26
Sector: Beverages 1 of 1
Type: Growth Capital 2 of 6
State: Arizona 1 of 3
Country: United States 5 of 25
Year: 2004 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-02-24 Chaparral Network Storage

Longmont, Colorado, United States

Chaparral Network Storage, Inc. develops storage networking solutions for data intensive enterprise applications. Chaparral's mission is to enable connectivity of both Fibre Channel and SCSI high performance storage subsystems into the dynamic environment of enterprise-wide storage networks.

Sell $72M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-04-12 Orion Defense Systems

Burbank, California, United States

Orion Defense Systems, Inc. is a distributor of electronic and mechanical assemblies to the military aerospace market with primary focus on aircraft upgrade and maintenance programs.

Buy -