M&A Deal Summary

Voyant Beauty Acquires Fluent

On August 1, 2020, Voyant Beauty acquired consumer products company Fluent from Ares Private Equity Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Voyant Beauty’s 4th transaction in the Consumer Products sector.
  • This is Voyant Beauty’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Voyant Beauty’s 1st transaction in Mississippi.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2020-08-01
Target Fluent
Sector Consumer Products
Buyer(s) Voyant Beauty
Sellers(s) Ares Private Equity Group
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Fluent

Olive Branch, Mississippi, United States
Fluent is a provider of North America's original hotel amenities supplier, offering turnkey manufacturing, development, and premium quality, earth-friendly solutions and true product innovation. Fluent was founded in 1976 and is based in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Voyant Beauty

Hodgkins, Illinois, United States

Category Company
Founded 1989
Sector Consumer Products
DESCRIPTION

Voyant Beauty is a full-service partner to both leading and emerging brands, Voyant Beauty helps its customers compete in the beauty landscape offering everything from marketing insights and ingredient research to development and manufacturing of award-winning products. Voyant Beauty was founded in 1989 and is based in Hodgkins, Illinois.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 5
Sector: Consumer Products M&A 4 of 5
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 4
State: Mississippi M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 3 of 4
Year: 2020 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-07-01 KIK Personal Care

Concord, Ontario, Canada

KIK Personal Care is a North American manufacturing partner and formulator for personal care, prestige beauty, over-the-counter and household products serving global consumer product companies and fast-growing asset-light brand owners, and a supplier of personal care guest amenities to the North American hotel industry.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-05-10 Jade Road Design And Sourcing

Monroe, Connecticut, United States

Jade Road Design And Sourcing is a supply chain solutions provider for the fragrance packaging industry. Jade Road Design And Sourcing was founded in 2011 and is based in Monroe, Connecticut.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Ares Private Equity Group

Los Angeles, California, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2003
PE ASSETS 24.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Ares Private Equity Group is the private equity arm of Ares Management, a global alternative asset manager. The Ares Private Equity Group specializes in opportunistic majority/shared control investments in under-capitalized middle-market companies. Ares looks for companies with strong franchises and attractive growth opportunities. The Group prefers to be the lead investor and will invest across the capital structure, including common equity, preferred equity, convertible equity/debt and senior debt. Areas of interest include business services, defense, healthcare, manufacturing, industrial, energy and consumer products and services. Ares Private Equity Group was formed in 2003 and is based in Los Angeles, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 42 of 59
Sector: Consumer Products M&A 6 of 8
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 10 of 17
State: Mississippi M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 34 of 47
Year: 2020 M&A 3 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-06-12 AZEK

Chicago, Illinois, United States

AZEK is a manufacturer of beautiful, low-maintenance residential and commercial building products, and is committed to accelerating the use of recyclable materials. The company is completely focused on leveraging our expertise in materials science and its customer-centric approach to engineer and manufacture the most beautiful, most sustainable building products to improve the lives and businesses of our customers. AZEK is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-08-12 WCA Waste

Houston, Texas, United States

WCA Waste Corp. is a full service, non-hazardous solid waste company providing collection and disposal services to commercial, industrial and residential customers.

Sell $1.2B