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May 15, 2013 / Portfolio News
Brentwood Associates portfolio company: The Teaching Company In a recent profile with “60 Minutes,” Bill Gates showed his extensive collection of The Great Courses from The Teaching Company, a Brentwood Associates portfolio company. “The more you learn,” Bill Gates said during his interview with 60 Minutes, “the more you have a framework the knowledge fits…
May 13, 2013 / Portfolio News
Dividend recapitalizations of K-Mac and Paper Source Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a consumer-focused private equity investment firm, announced it has completed dividend recapitalizations of two of its portfolio companies, K-Mac Holdings, Corp. (“K-Mac”) and Paper Source, Inc. (“Paper Source”). The K-Mac dividend was financed through excess capacity under the company’s existing $252 million credit facility, and…
April 3, 2013 / Portfolio News
The New York Times considers whether healthy fast food is possible. Once again, Veggie Grill is proving that a general audience is craving healthy and delicious vegan options. According to the New York Times, “Veggie Grill, Lyfe Kitchen, Tender Greens and others have solved the challenge of bringing formerly upscale, plant-based foods to more of a mass…
January 28, 2013 / Portfolio News
LA Times, Fortune, Yahoo! News, and other media outlets sharing the news about Veggie Grill Veggie Grill, a Santa-Monica based chain of vegan restaurants, has raised $20 million in common-stock funding from both current shareholders and new investors, the Los Angeles Times reported. A large portion of this investment was contributed by Brentwood Associates, making the private equity firm the…
January 7, 2013 / Portfolio News
Portfolio Company News: Pacific Island Restaurants Consumer-focused private equity investment firm Brentwood Associates sold Pacific Island Restaurants Inc. to Nimes Capital last week, reported The Daily Journal. Honolulu-based Pacific Island Restaurants is the sole franchisee of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants throughout Hawaii, Guam and Saipan. The deal closed at the end of December, eight years after…
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