August 1, 2019 – Audax Private Equity (“Audax”) announced today that it has acquired a controlling interest in Stonewall Kitchen (“The Company”), a leading provider of branded, specialty food products, from Centre Partners. The Company, founded in 1991 and headquartered in York, ME, consists of the flagship Stonewall Kitchen brand; the Tillen Farms brand of […]

July 22, 2019 – Boston, Massachusetts, USA / Leverkusen, Germany – Yellow Wood Partners and Bayer announced today that Yellow Wood Partners has entered into a definitive agreement to buy the Dr. Scholl’s™ business from Bayer for a purchase price of 585 million U.S. dollars. Dr. Scholl’s™ is an iconic, one-of-a-kind brand, which is synonymous […]

July 9, 2019 – Stamford, CT – Transom Capital Group (“Transom”), a leading operations-focused middle market private equity firm, today announced it has acquired Conair Corporation’s professional liquids division. The division will be renamed as Beauty Quest Group (the “Company”). Beauty Quest Group is a leading integrated manufactuer and marketer of branded and private label […]

May 13, 2019 – Significant expansion of portfolio will advance Beiersdorf’s leading position as sun care expert / Beiersdorf delivers first major acquisition under its new C.A.R.E.+ strategy / Divestiture enables Bayer to focus on core OTC business Hamburg and Leverkusen, Germany – Beiersdorf and Bayer announced today that Beiersdorf has entered into a definitive […]

April 26, 2019 – Paris, France and Frankfurt, Germany – Laboratoire HRA Pharma SAS, a fast- growing, innovative global consumer healthcare company, and Merz, a global leader in aesthetics and neurotoxins, announced today that they have signed an asset purchase agreement, pursuant to which HRA Pharma will acquire the global rights to the Mederma® brand, […]