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The Great Courses Partners With The Smithsonian

Portfolio Company: The Great Courses The Smithsonian Institution is venturing further into online education with a new deal to provide content for digital courses in history, science, culture and the arts, the museum complex announced as reported by the Associated Press and numerous other news outlets.Smithsonian officials unveiled an agreement with the Chantilly, Virginia-based education group The…

First Restaurant IPO of 2014: Zoe’s Kitchen Surges 65 Percent

Portfolio Company: Zoe’s Kitchen Shares of Zoe’s Kitchen Inc. rose nearly 64.8 percent Friday for the restaurant industry’s first initial public offering of 2014,according to an article by Nation’s Restaurant News. Zoe’s priced its offering at $15 each for 5.8 million shares and closed at $24.72 at 4 p.m. EDT. Founded in 1995 by Zoë and…

K-MAC Acquires 21 Taco Bell Franchises in OKC

Portfolio Company: K-MAC Holdings Corp. K-MAC Holdings Corp., headquartered in Fort Smith, Ark., announced it has acquired 21 Taco Bell restaurants from Ricksim Inc., a franchisee that operates Taco Bell restaurants in the Oklahoma City market, reports QSR magazine. “We are privileged to be able to continue to support the growth of a great company in K-MAC and…

Brentwood Buys Allen Edmonds Corporation

Portfolio Company: Allen Edmonds Corporation Allen Edmonds Corporation has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Brentwood Associates,  as reported in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and numerous other media outlets.Allen Edmonds will remain an independent private company, according to its president & chief executive officer Paul Grangaard, and will now have greater access…