M&A Deal Summary

Wind Point Partners and Harvest Partners Acquire Gehl Foods

On March 27, 2015, private equity firms Wind Point Partners and Harvest Partners acquired food company Gehl Foods

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Wind Point Partners’ 8th and Harvest Partners’ 1st transaction in the Food sector.
  • This is Wind Point Partners’ 46th and Harvest Partners’ 27th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Wind Point Partners’ 4th and Harvest Partners’ 1st transaction in Wisconsin.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-03-27
Target Gehl Foods
Sector Food
Buyer(s) Wind Point Partners
Harvest Partners
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Gehl Foods

Germantown, Wisconsin, United States
Gehl Foods is a manufacturer of ready-to-serve, real dairy products like cheese sauces, puddings, yogurt, and dairy-based beverages. Gehl Foods was founded in 1896 and is based Germantown, Wisconsin.

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Buyer(S) 2

Buyer

Wind Point Partners

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 7.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Wind Point Partners is a private equity firm focused on acquisitions of mid-sized companies operating in the business services, consumer products, healthcare services, and industrial products sectors. Wind Point looks to invest $60 to $130 million in companies valued up to $500 million. Prospective transaction types include leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, industry consolidations, and growth capital financings. Wind Point Partners began investing in 1984 and is based in Chicago.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 50 of 85
Sector: Food M&A 8 of 13
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 25 of 42
State: Wisconsin M&A 4 of 4
Country: United States M&A 46 of 78
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-09-18 Vision-Ease Lens

Ramsey, Minnesota, United States

Vision-Ease Lens, Inc. (Vision Ease) is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of ophthalmic lenses. It offers photochromic, light-responsive, polarized, and progressive line-free lenses; and lenses in polycarbonate, plastic, and glass materials.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-09-22 Argotec

Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States

Argotec LLC is a manufacturer of thermoplastic polyurethane films used in a wide range of industries and market segments, including automotive paint protection, glass lamination, medical, graphics, textiles, and other industrial applications.

Sell $280M
Buyer

Harvest Partners

New York, New York, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1981
PE ASSETS 5.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Harvest Partners is a Investment firm provides Private Equity and Structured Capital focused on buyout, growth capital, minority position, and non-control investments in middle-market public and private companies. Harvest Partners looks to invest in profitable ($30 to $300 million of EBITDA). Sectors of interest include business services, consumer services, healthcare, industrial services, manufacturing, marketing, building products and distribution companies valued between $100 and $1000 million. The Firm prefers opportunities headquartered in North America. Harvest Partners was formed in 1981 and is based in New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 31 of 71
Sector: Food M&A 1 of 3
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 10 of 12
State: Wisconsin M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 27 of 67
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-01-26 Regency Energy Partners

Dallas, Texas, United States

Regency Energy Partners LP is a growth-oriented, master limited partnership engaged in the gathering and processing, compression, treating and transportation of natural gas; the transportation, fractionation and storage of natural gas liquids; the gathering, transportation and terminaling of oil (crude and/or condensate) received from producers; and the management of coal and natural resource properties in the United States.

Sell $18M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-04-20 VetCor

Norwell, Massachusetts, United States

VetCor owns and operates a national family of 272 veterinary hospitals. VetCor hospitals provide a full range of general medical and surgical services for pets, as well as pharmacy needs and ancillary services such as boarding, grooming, and pet products. VetCor was founded in 1997 and is based in Norwell, Massachusetts.

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