M&A Deal Summary

Exxel Outdoors Acquires American Recreation Products

On April 7, 2015, Exxel Outdoors acquired consumer services company American Recreation Products from Sun Capital Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Exxel Outdoors’ 1st transaction in the Consumer Services sector.
  • This is Exxel Outdoors’ 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Exxel Outdoors’ 1st transaction in Colorado.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2015-04-07
Target American Recreation Products
Sector Consumer Services
Buyer(s) Exxel Outdoors
Sellers(s) Sun Capital Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

American Recreation Products

Boulder, Colorado, United States
American Recreation Products is a provider of outdoor recreation and leisure products, utilizing multiple consumer lifestyle brands through the mass and specialty distribution channels. Brands include Kelty, Royal Robbins, Sierra Designs, Slumberjack, and Wenzel.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Exxel Outdoors

Haleyville, Alabama, United States
Category Company
Founded 1997
Sector Manufacturing
DESCRIPTION

Exxel Outdoors is a manufacturer and distributor of outdoor gear.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector (Consumer Services) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 1 of 1
State (Colorado) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 1
Year (2015) 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Sun Capital Partners

Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1995
PE ASSETS 13.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Sun Capital's corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida.
Sun Capital's corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida.

Sun Capital Partners is a large private equity firm focused on leveraged buyouts, equity, debt, and other control investments in North America, Asia, and Europe. Sun looks for businesses that can benefit from the Firm's operating experience including underperformers, turnarounds, and special situations. Target companies typically have $50 million to $1 billion in revenue with strong market positions. Sectors of interest include paper and packaging, food and beverages, metals and mining, automotive after-market parts, consumer products, financial services, healthcare, media and communications, building products, telecommunications, technology, retailing and catalogs, restaurants, manufacturing and industrial. Sun Capital was formed in 1995 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 66 of 127
Sector (Consumer Services) 1 of 2
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 25 of 53
State (Colorado) 1 of 3
Country (United States) 47 of 88
Year (2015) 1 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Doncaster, United Kingdom

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Buy £400M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Sandy, Utah, United States

Critical Flow Solutions is a provider of broad range of products and services to the petroleum refining industry. The DeltaValve brand is the market leader and offers solutions for the delayed coking process in refineries. The TapcoEnpro brand provides market leading solutions for the fluid catalytic cracking process in refineries.

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