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Aramark Corporation
Philadelphia, PA
2008 Revenues: $13.5 billion*
CEO: Joseph Neubauer
Year of Investment: 2007
Aramark Corporation is a leader in professional services, providing award-winning food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions, universities and school districts, stadiums and arenas, businesses and government departments and agencies in 18 countries around the world. Aramark is the largest food and facilities service company in North America and is among the top three in most of the other countries in which it operates. The Company's uniform and career apparel business is the second largest in the U.S. and provides both rental and direct marketing services.
www.aramark.com
*(fiscal year end of September 28, 2007)
Ariel Holdings
Hamilton, Bermuda
2008 Revenues: $580 million
CEO: Donald Kramer
Year of Investment: 2005
Ariel is a Bermuda-based reinsurance and insurance company formed to take advantage of emerging opportunities in the worldwide P&C reinsurance and insurance markets. The Company anticipates writing both property and casualty business with approximately 20% of the insurance written on a direct basis and 80% in the form of reinsurance.
www.arielre.com
Ceridian Corporation
Minneapolis, MN
2008 Revenues: $1.6 billion
CEO: Kathryn Marinello
Year of Investment: 2007
Ceridian is a leading provider of outsourced processing and employee benefits services. Ceridian operates through three principal business segments, Human Resource Solutions ("HRS"), Comdata and Stored Value Solutions ("SVS"). HRS offers a broad range of HR outsourcing services built around a core capability of payroll processing. Comdata is a processor of proprietary, credit and debit cards, including fuel cards, for various industries, including the transportation industry. SVS sells and processes stored value cards (such as gift cards) primarily to retailers.
www.ceridian.com
Clear Channel Communications
San Antonio, Texas
2008 Revenues: $6.7 billion*
CEO: Mark P. Mays
Year of Investment: 2008
Clear Channel is one of the world's largest radio and outdoor advertising companies, with an unmatched portfolio of radio stations and outdoor advertising assets with leading market positions in local communities across the United States and throughout the world. Clear Channel is able to reach over 154 million people through its over 1,000 locally operated and programmed radio stations and 908,000 outdoor advertising displays. Clear Channel is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.
www.clearchannel.com
*Pro forma for divestiture of television business and certain non-core radio stations.
Cumulus Media Partners
Atlanta, GA
2008 Revenues: $203 million
CEO: Lewis W. Dickey, Jr.
Year of Investment: 2006
Susquehanna Radio operates twenty seven FM and ten AM radio stations in nine markets nationwide including San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta. The Company is the largest privately owned broadcaster of terrestrial radio in the United States and the eleventh largest broadcaster overall. The Company was acquired in a partnership with Cumulus Media, a publically traded radio broadcaster.
www.cumulus.com
Dunkin' Brands
Canton, MA
CEO: Jon Luther
2008 Revenues: $545 million
Year of Investment: 2006
Leading quick service restaurant franchisor of the Dunkin' Donuts (coffee), Baskin-Robbins (ice cream). Based in Canton, MA, the company has over 13,000 points of distribution in 45 countries.
www.dunkinbrands.com
Fidelity National Information Services
Jacksonville, FL
2008 Revenues: $3.4 Billion
CEO: Lee A. Kennedy
Leading provider of core processing for financial institutions; card issuer and transaction processing services; and outsourcing services to financial institutions and retailers. FIS has processing and technology relationships with 40 of the top 50 global banks, including nine of the top 10. FIS has been ranked the number one overall financial technology provider in the world by American Banker and the research firm Financial Insights in the annual FinTech 100 rankings. FIS maintains a strong global presence, serving more than 13,000 financial institutions in more than 80 countries worldwide.
www.fidelityinfoservices.com
Grupo Corporativo Ono
Madrid, Spain
2008 Revenues: €1.6 billion
CEO: Eugenio Galdon
Year of Investment: 2005
Ono is the leading cable provider of telephony, broadband Internet and Pay TV services in Spain, passing approximately 6.9 million homes with its network. The Company is the only national cable operator with a franchise area covering approximately 84% of Spanish homes. Ono also offers various voice, data and video-related services to over 69,000 small and medium business customers.
www.ono.es
Hawkeye Energy Holdings
Ames, IA
2008 Revenues: $696 million
CEO: Bruce Rastetter
Year of Investment: 2006
Hawkeye Energy Holdings, LLC ("Hawkeye" or the "Company") is the fourth largest ethanol producer in the United States based on production capacity of 450 MMGPY. Its access to low-cost corn supplies, approach to marketing its ethanol, operating scale, transportation infrastructure and operational expertise allow the Company to be one of the lowest-cost producers of ethanol in the United States. Hawkeye Gold, a marketing & services organization, has developed a best-in-class management team that is currently marketing ethanol and distillers grains for Hawkeye and several third party plants.
www.hawkrenew.com
Lender Processing Services
Jacksonville, FL
2008 Revenues: $1.9 billion
CEO: Jeffrey S. Carbiener
Year of Investment: 2005
Leading provider of integrated technology and services to the mortgage industry. LPS offers solutions that span the mortgage continuum, including lead generation, origination, workflow automation, servicing, portfolio retention and default, augmented by the company's award-winning customer support and professional services. Approximately 50 percent of all U.S. mortgages are serviced using LPS's Mortgage Servicing Package (MSP). Many of the nation's top servicers rely on MSP, including seven of the top 10 and 16 of the top 20. LPS also offers proprietary mortgage and real estate data and analytics for the mortgage and capital markets industries.
www.lpsvcs.com
Michael Foods
Minnetonka, MN
2008 Revenues: $1.0 billion
CEO: David S. Johnson
Year of Investment: 2003
Diversified producer and distributor of value-added egg and refrigerated potato products to the food service, retail and industrial ingredient markets. Through its Crystal Farms division. the company is a leading wholesale distributor of cheese and related dairy products throughout the Midwest.
www.michaelfoods.com
MoneyGram International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
2008 Revenues: $1.3 billion*
CEO: Philip W. Milne
Year of Investment: 2008
MoneyGram is a leading global payment services company. MoneyGram's primary business segment, Global Funds Transfer, provides money transfer services, wink-in and electronic bill payment services and money orders to unbanked, underbanked and convenience users through a worldwide network of agents in approximately 180 countries. MoneyGram is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
www.moneygram.com
* (excluding net securities losses)
The Nielsen Company
New York, NY and Harlem, The Netherlands
2008 Revenues: $5.0 billion
CEO: David Calhoun
Year of Investment: 2006
The Nielsen Company, formerly known as VNU, is a leading global information and media company providing essential integrated marketing and media measurement information, analytics and industry expertise to clients around the world. Nielsen operates in three segments: Consumer Services, Media, and Business Media. Through these segments, Nielsen tracks sales of consumer products, reports on television viewing habits in countries representing more than 60% of the world's population, measures internet audiences and produces trade shows, print publications and online newsletter.
www.nielsen.com
Nortek
Providence, RI
2008 Revenues: $2.3 billion
CEO: Richard L. Bready
Year of Investment: 2004
Leading diversified global manufacturer of innovative, branded residential and commercial ventilation, HVAC and home technology convenience and security products.
www.nortek-inc.com
Sedgwick CMS
Memphis, TN
2008 Revenues: $691 million
CEO: David A. North
Year of Investment: 2006
Leading provider of outsourced claims management services to large corporate and public sector entities. Sedgwick's principal business lines are workers' compensation, general liability and disability. Sedgwick provides complex risk management services which are designed to reduce claims cost and lessen lost work time while still providing appropriate compensation to the customers and employees of the clients. The Company has a nationwide network of more than 6,000 employees in over 130 offices.
www.sedgwickcms.com
Simmons
Atlanta, GA
2008 Net Revenues: $1.0 billion
CEO: Charles Eitel
Year of Investment: 2003
Leading manufacturer and distributor of premium branded mattresses, with brand names including Beautyrest®, Beautyrest Black®, Beautyrest NxG™, ComforPedic by Simmons™ and Natural Care™ Latex.
www.simmons.com
Univision
Los Angeles, CA
2008 Revenues: $2.0 billion
CEO: Joe Uva
Year of Investment: 2007
Univision Communications is the leading Spanish-language ("SL") media company in the United States, with the #1 market position in each of its key business segments: Television, Radio, and Internet. The Company's operations include the Univision and TeleFutura networks which are the #1 and #2 SL television networks, respectively; the Galavision network which is the #1 SL cable network; the #1 SL television station group; the #1 SL radio broadcaster; and the #1 SL internet portal, Univision.com.
www.univision.net
Warner Chilcott
Rockaway, New Jersey
2008 Revenues: $938 million
CEO: Roger M. Boissonneault
Year of Investment: 2005
Leading specialty pharmaceutical company focused on marketing, developing and manufacturing branded prescription pharmaceutical products in two core therapeutic categories: women’s healthcare and dermatology.
www.warnerchilcott.com
Warner Music Group
New York, NY
2008 Revenues: $3.5 billion*
CEO: Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Year of Investment: 2004
One of the world's leading music companies, operating in both the recorded music and music publishing segments in over 70 countries worldwide. Major labels include Atlantic, and Warner Brothers Records. WMG administers its copyright portfolio through Warner/Chappell.
www.wmg.com
*(fiscal year end of September 30, 2008)
West Corporation
Omaha, NE
2008 Revenues: $2.2 billion
CEO: Thomas B. Barker
Year of Investment: 2006
West Corporation is a leading provider of outsourced communication solutions to many of the world's largest companies, organizations and government agencies. West helps its clients communicate effectively, maximize the value of their customers relationships and drive greater profitability from every interaction. The Company's integrated suite of customized solutions includes customer acquisition, customer care, automated voice services, emergency communications, conferencing and accounts receivable management services.
www.west.com
