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$350MM Supplier of Goods to Government & Consumers - this privately owned company is profitable and has a well-known brand name. Our Backable CEO has an outstanding track record of success in private equity backed transactions. He has spent most of his career in the consumer goods sector and is very familiar with the target company because he was CEO of a related product line. $1Billion Consumer Goods Company - Significant opportunity for dramatic return on investment with a well-known international brand. Team is led by an experienced retailing CEO who has had serial success in private equity backed deals similar to this corporate situation. Deal is best suited for a private equity firm that has international reach and experience in the consumer goods sector. Our Backable CEO is an industry veteran with an extremely impressive credentials. He has a perfect record of improving profits, building companies, and creating shareholder value. Among his successful business transformations: Company A - in 1 year reversed 8-year revenue decline, turning losses into profits and growth resulting in successful sale of previously un-saleable company; Company B - transformed company to #1 market share, highest profitability and equity valuation in its marketplace, and largest US-owned brand portfolio; Company C - reversed 4-year slide to 114% increase in stock value, nearly doubling number of brands and increasing EPS from -$.17 to $.44; Company D - increased sales and profits 3X and stock price from $8 to $85 by restructuring company and positioning brand for explosive growth. $300MM + Acquisition of Auto Dealerships in Sunbelt - Backable CEO has assembled an experienced team including the former CEO of a regional dealership for a top five publicly traded auto company who grew his group from 8 to 26 dealerships. Backable CEO has run the lead dealership for the largest U.S. privately held automotive group with over $350MM in P&L. Target acquisitions are franchises owned by 2nd or 3rd generation families that have had enough of today's market. These are currently available at multiples of 3 to 5 PE. The plan is to grow revenues by improving processes, procedures, adding products, using team expertise to grow the used vehicle business, by owning and operating a real estate holding company, floor plan finance company and an offshore reinsurance company. Exit in 5 years with much larger profits and a multiple of 7 to 9 PE. $800MM Fashion Accessories Business - the company is based in the U.S. but has global sales and produces EBITDA of about $150MM. This privately owned target is well known by our Backable CEO and his team as a result of prior working relationships. Our CEO is a proven winner in the consumer goods sector and comes with a string of private equity turnarounds and corporate growth success stories. $80MM - $100MM Specialty Valves Manufacturers - Our Backable CEO proposes to enter the business of energy efficient buildings by acquiring one or more components suppliers, namely high-value (specialty) valves manufacturer(s). For building owners the immediate benefit is cost saving through lower energy consumption (of their HVAC systems). In long-term, it is increased value of their property/investment as market is expected to give energy efficient buildings higher valuation and compliance with likely to come state/nationwide regulations. For investors/shareholders the opportunity is to enter multi-billion and aggressively growing "green" market through modest investment into a niche segment. Target business delivers high gross margins of 65+%. The investment(s) can be scaled appropriately and diverse business models are available to mitigate the risks that will deliver compounded average annual ROI of 22%. Our CEO and his team have a lengthy experience in the industry and strong credentials in the targeted segment. $100MM Specialty Injection Molding Acquisition - Team of experienced executives has identified an undervalued specialty manufacturing injection molding business. These executives bring international marketing and sales outreach along with decades of operating expertise. Growth will come mainly as a result of applying technical improvements, building on market knowledge and leveraging worldwide sales connections. Business is currently profitable but can be dramatically improved upon. Exit within 5 to 6 years via sale to a larger player in the industry. $80MM Roll up in Clinical Research - Platform company is seven years old service provider to pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations. Revenues are in excess of $50MM and EBITDA of $15MM. Our Backable CEO has identified several organic growth opportunities and two acquisition targets. Our Backable CEO is also the principal owner and founder. Company has thus far focused on supporting late stage trials and has expanded operations throughout the US with a foothold in Europe as well. The Backable CEO has had previous experience as President of a medical information services company and also as successful entrepreneur marketing pharmaceutical products to targeted patient groups $50MM Internet Social Networking Roll Up - Successful web entrepreneur is our Backable CEO. He recently acquired a top 25 social networking destination and accompanying intellectual property. Assets include unique proprietary social networking software that is licensed to large, well-known users such as AARP. Plans to leverage social networking technology with the domain name celebs.com (also recently acquired) to build a community powered celebrity centric destination. Up to $50MM in capital will be used to grow business and acquire a celebrity news portal to round out the editorial offering. All assets are accretive to central vision: community destination with engaging Web 2.0 applications that enable the celebrity obsessed masses to create and consume compelling celebrity content. Post acquisition, company's assets would include three popular web destinations with substantial traffic and growing revenue. CEO has overseen two billion dollar plus expansion programs for publicly traded Internet companies and has built and sold (to a publicly traded company) his most recent Internet business - an Internet video streaming site. CEO's prior experience includes both Wharton and a Credit Suisse Internet banking background. $250MM Turnaround in the Casual Dining Sector - A portfolio of restaurant properties is available for purchase at a discount from a senior lender. Our Backable CEO and his management team have an opportunity to select from a pool of properties and to use their years of industry experience to maximize the financial return through skillful management of the operations and property portfolios. The CEO is a hospitality executive with strong leadership, problem solving and decision making capabilities. He has had extensive senior level experience in restaurant operations, finance, business development, advisory and investment, acquisitions and mergers. He and his team bring in-depth industry knowledge across multiple brands/segments including full service, casual dining, fast casual, and quick service restaurants. $100MM Confectionery Product - An opportunity has been presented to our Backable CEO candidate to purchase a unique and world-renowned confectionary business. The company is profitable having archived EBITDA ranging from 20% to 25% over the past decade. Company also owns its production facility and two office buildings in attractive international locations. Our BCEO has extensive experience in the food and confectionery industries having been a brand manager for a large international conglomerate. He has had extensive experience as a consultant with both McKinsey and Andersen. He has been a senior banker at Chase and Citicorp. 
$220MM Resort Hotel Complex - Backable CEO candidate has long track record of successful commercial, hospitality and residential property development. This resort property project is located on a vacation destination island and is a well-established golf, tennis and water sport resort. The property has enjoyed a premier international reputation and has a long list of loyal clientele. Funding is needed to purchase the property and make updates to infrastructure. Backable CEO has previous resort hotel development experience with Hilton, Ritz Carlton and leading independent developers. $50MM BBQ Rib Franchise - Backable CEO has already designed and developed an extremely successful BBQ rib establishment on the West Coast. Currently the initial location is generating over 30% EBITDA on sales with additional revenues from catering growing rapidly (50% year on year) due to popularity of the recipes. Backable CEO would like to raise up to $50MM over a three year period to build out additional company-owned locations and to develop franchised locations. Each company-owned build out would require between $2MM and $5MM depending on the location. Initial priority is to build an East Coast facility to leverage the popularity of the West Coast restaurant. Backable CEO and his family have a long history of successful fast food and sports restaurants. $80MM Roll up of Retail Clothing Designers/Manufacturers - Backable CEO candidate (London Business School MBA, McKinsey & Company) has been a success at creating brands and has profitably grown labels in the women's fashion industry. Has identified several brands for a roll-up of semi-luxury fashion labels operating mainly in the jeanswear, street fashion and general prêt-à-porter segments. Our candidate has already contracted with roll up targets to provide long-term marketing, sales, and distribution for their brands. Combining the companies would further allow design and creative staff to focus on branding while rationalizing administration, purchasing and manufacturing. Marketing, sales & distribution would take place through candidate's platform company. $200MM+ Property & Casualty Insurance Company - Backable CEO candidate has identified several targets in the $200MM range and evaluation of alternatives is on-going. Candidate has played a leading role in senior management teams of major insurance companies culminating in several CEO appointments. These include serving as Chairman & CEO of a multibillion-dollar P&C company, President & CEO of one of the world's largest reinsurance companies, and President and Founder of a $2.3 billion property/casualty business. This last business was built from the ground up becoming a major, credible insurer of small to mid-size commercial and personal accounts through agents and brokers. $50MM Roll up of Healthcare Services Companies - Backable CEO candidate has over twenty years of successful business creation/acquisition activity in the healthcare information industry. This BCEO has served as President & CEO both in companies that he has developed and for the acquirers of his companies. Our candidate has a contractual relationship with several multi-million-person membership organizations. His company conducts healthcare testing for the members and provides healthcare information to them sponsored by major pharmaceutical companies. This candidate is willing to use current company as a platform and has identified a healthcare information services company and an analytics company (for tracking clinical data) as potential acquisition targets. $250MM Staffing and HR Consulting Firm - The Backable CEO currently runs this division of a larger company. He is an international executive with over years of success in consulting (formerly with McKinsey & Company) and the staffing and HR sectors. He has managed organizations ranging in size from early stage to over $1billion in sales. He is a turnaround and operations improvement specialist with cross border experience. The target has experienced strong growth with solid margins and is well positioned for international growth with the right management team. $50+ Million Roll up of European Internet Media and Entertainment Companies - Backable CEO has previously served as CFO of the initial platform company and has an inside track on its acquisition. The platform company and acquisition targets are mature companies with strong EBITDA. BCEO is an ex-McKinsey consultant with a PhD from a leading university. He has lengthy experience in the online community and most recently served as a partner in a media oriented venture capital firm. As a result, he currently also serves on several corporate boards. |
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