M&A Deal Summary

DS Waters of America Acquires O Premium Waters

On December 16, 2009, DS Waters of America acquired beverage company O Premium Waters from Celerity Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is DS Waters of America’s 3rd transaction in the Beverages sector.
  • This is DS Waters of America’s 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is DS Waters of America’s 1st transaction in Arizona.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2009-12-16
Target O Premium Waters
Sector Beverages
Buyer(s) DS Waters of America
Sellers(s) Celerity Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

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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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

DS Waters of America

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Category Company
Founded 1985
Sector Beverages
DESCRIPTION

DS Waters of America, Inc. is a diversified beverage company providing bottled drinking water, water filtration and coffee services and products to homes and offices across the U.S.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 7
Sector (Beverages) 3 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 4 of 7
State (Arizona) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 4 of 7
Year (2009) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-12-12 Blue Ridge Mountain Waters inc.

Norcross, Georgia, United States

Blue Ridge Mountain Water delivers a variety of bottled water and complimentary products to residential and commercial customers throughout the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-11-09 Mount Olympus Waters

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Mount Olympus Waters, Inc. delivers bottled spring water to homes and offices in Denver, Boise, Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Twin Falls, and Salt Lake City.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Celerity Partners

Los Angeles, California, United States

Investor Investor Investor

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 has offices in Los Angeles and Menlo Park.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 9 of 23
Sector (Beverages) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 5 of 11
State (Arizona) 1 of 3
Country (United States) 7 of 21
Year (2009) 4 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-08-31 Cogeco Peer 1

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cogeco Peer 1, Inc. is a provider of outsourced Internet infrastructure in the form of colocation and related managed services to enterprise customers in the US, and to a lesser extent, in Canada.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-10-04 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.

Sell -
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