Investment Summary

Wind Point Partners Invests In Pacific Cycles

On September 24, 2001, private equity firm Wind Point Partners invested in consumer products company Pacific Cycles

Investment Highlights
  • This is Wind Point Partners’ 1st transaction in the Consumer Products sector.
  • This is Wind Point Partners’ 10th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Wind Point Partners’ 2nd transaction in Wisconsin.
Investment Fate
  • Pacific Cycles was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2004 for 310M USD.

Investment Summary

Date 2001-09-24
Target Pacific Cycles
Sector Consumer Products
Investor(s) Wind Point Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Pacific Cycles

Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Pacific Cycles, Inc. is a designer and supplier of higher quality bicycles to U.S. based mass-market retailers. Pacific supplies high-quality, feature-rich bicycles to retailers such as Toys R Us, Target and Sears.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Wind Point Partners

Chicago, Illinois, United States

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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 10 of 86
Sector: Consumer Products M&A 1 of 13
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 3 of 5
State: Wisconsin M&A 2 of 4
Country: United States M&A 10 of 79
Year: 2001 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-04-23 V-SPAN

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

V-SPAN, Inc. is a provider of premium conferencing services to businesses. V-SPAN's services include video conference bridging (integrating two or more video conference participants into a single video output), automated audio conferencing, document web conferencing, Internet streaming and storage, and other related premium conferencing services. V-SPAN was founded in 1995 and is based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2002-01-01 The Ames Companies

Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, United States

The Ames Companies, Inc. is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of non-motorized lawn and garden tools, wheelbarrows and hose reels. Ames products are marketed under the Ames, True Temper, Jackson and Garant brand names.

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