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May 31, 2014 / Portfolio News
Portfolio Company: Zoe’s Kitchen Zoe’s Kitchen, a Brentwood Associates portfolio company, is one of 17 newcomers to The Dallas Morning News’ annual ranking of the area’s top public companies. The plano-based company now operates 119 fast-casual restaurants. “We don’t serve food that has been pre-made and dumped from a bag into a warming bin,” said Jason…
May 5, 2014 / Portfolio News
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…
April 14, 2014 / Portfolio News
Portfolio Company: Zoe’s Kitchen Zoe’s Kitchen Inc. intends to use proceeds of its successful initial public offering to open 20 to 30 new restaurants this year, as reported by Nation’s Restaurant News.Jason Morgan, Zoe’s chief financial officer, said the $70 million offering with a 15-percent green sheet would allow Zoe’s to use the proceeds to pay off…
April 11, 2014 / Portfolio News
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…
April 8, 2014 / Fund News
Featured Partner: Bill Barnum Bill Barnum, partner and co-founder of Brentwood Associates, has been named one of the most influential private equity investors in the April 7, 2014 issue of the Los Angeles Business Journal. “He has made a science of spotting lesser known consumer concepts with staying power and turning them into more profitable power house brands, increasing demand…
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