Portfolio

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We leverage sector knowledge, industry relationships and operational resources to deliver strong results for our portfolio companies and partners.

Beauty Biosciences, LLC

Premium skincare and beauty brand

BeautyBio was founded in 2011 with a mission to transform the beauty industry. BeautyBio has a history of cultivating prestige products for world-renowned brands at the founder’s family-owned cosmetics lab. The Company’s clinically-proven skin-care solutions include a portfolio of high-tech devices and clean label topicals that together result in more beautiful and youthful looking skin. Today, BeautyBio sells its cutting-edge products through top tier retailers around the world, on television and online — creating effective, results-driven skincare designed to enhance individual skin health.

Family/founder-owned

CellCore Biosciences

Provider of dietary supplements, natural solutions, and functional ingredients for foundational health benefits

CellCore is a founder-owned wellness platform that provides dietary supplements and other natural solutions to improve the health of consumers. The Company’s innovative solutions, sold primarily through the practitioner channel, are focused on promoting foundational health and can have a wide range of health benefits. Target health benefits include reducing body sensitivities, supporting energy levels, promoting digestive and detox support, and promoting liver health, kidney health, digestive health, immunity, and bone and brain development.

Family/founder-owned

Colorado Premium

Supplier of premium and value-added proteins

Colorado Premium is a founder-owned, value-added manufacturer of high-quality beef, chicken and other proteins in sous vide, portioned, marinated and ground formats. The Company’s uncompromising dedication to safety, quality and customer service has forged long-term relationships with coveted foodservice operators, retailers, and subscription food services. Colorado Premium is a true partner to its customers, reliably delivering high-quality meats in a tailored format to meet their specific requirements at a competitive cost.

Family/founder-owned

Country Fresh, LLC

Fresh, healthy and convenient snacking solutions

Country Fresh is a provider of fresh-cut fruit, vegetables, snacking solutions, and ready-to-eat meals to retail and foodservice operators throughout the U.S. and Canada. Country Fresh primarily sells its products under retailers’ private-label brands and its own brands including Country Fresh, Snack Fresh, Snack Sensations, and Sun Rich, often helping design fresh produce planograms, merchandising programs, and innovative packaging solutions for its retail partners.

Family/founder-owned

Evriholder Products, LLC

Provider of value-oriented impulse products and merchandising solutions

Evriholder is a provider of impulse products and merchandising solutions for retailers. The Company’s value-oriented product assortment includes kitchen, storage, laundry, cleaning, personal care, toys, outdoor and other household products that typically retail for $5 or less. The Company’s products are strategically merchandised next to relevant on-shelf products on clip strips, end caps, and side panels or near the check-out queue to drive incremental sales for the retailer. Evriholder also serves as an innovation and merchandising partner for its major customers with a fast product design and development cycle that we believe enables the Company to stay current with consumer interests. Evriholder has also acquired the brands Joie, Progressive, BASE4 Ventures and EXCITE to expand its product and category penetration.

Fempro Consumer Products ULC

Manufacturer and marketer of private label and branded feminine care products

Fempro is a manufacturer and marketer of private label and branded external feminine care products in North America. Its core products include ultra-thin pads, maxis, and panty-liners. The Company provides private label products to retailers throughout North America.

Family/founder-owned

Ferraro Foods

Italian foodservice distributor delivering quality products to the Italian restaurant and pizzeria segment

Ferraro Foods is an Italian foodservice distributor in the Eastern U.S., delivering quality food products, value, and reliable service primarily to the Italian restaurant and pizzeria segment. Established in 1975, the multi-generational family-owned business brings fresh ingredients, essential products, and quality service to its valued customers to help them grow their businesses day after day. The Company sources some of the finest specialty food products both domestically and from abroad, bringing the best that the world has to offer to its customers.

Family/founder-owned

Florida Food Products, LLC

All-natural vegetable and fruit based ingredients creating innovative clean-label solutions for food products

Founded in 1954, Florida Food Products has provided all natural and on-trend ingredients for over 60 years. Florida Food Products is a formulator and manufacturer that uses fruits and vegetables to create innovative clean-label solutions for the food, beverage, and pet nutrition industries, including clean label cures and preservatives, vegetable juice concentrates and powders, and gelling fiber.

Family/founder-owned

Gehl Food & Beverage

Manufacturer of shelf-stable beverages, soups, and sauces

Founded over 125 years ago, Gehl specializes in developing aseptic solutions that keep food and beverages flavorful, fresh, and safe. The Company sells shelf-stable protein drinks, plant-based milks, soups, cheese sauces and chili to blue chip brands, retailers, and foodservice customers across North America. With state-of-the-art packaging capabilities, a coast-to-coast footprint across three manufacturing sites, and a dedication to food safety, Gehl is committed to being a leader in aseptic innovation.

good2grow

Clean label, nutritious beverages in irresistible packaging that kids love

Since 2001, good2grow has been investing in top-quality beverages, packaging technology, state-of-the-art manufacturing, and the freshest, most nutritious ingredients available. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, good2grow sells clean label and organic 100% fruit juice, vegetable juice, fortified water and flavored milk in bottles that are adorned with unique 3-dimensional toppers featuring a variety of licensed movie and television characters that appeal to children. The unique packaging, with popular characters featured on each spill proof topper, also serves as a collectible toy.

Family/founder-owned

InterHealth Nutraceuticals, Inc.

Innovative branded ingredients for functional foods and dietary supplements

InterHealth is an innovator of branded, patented ingredients that are clinically studied and sold worldwide to manufacturers of dietary supplements and functional foods and beverages. InterHealth’s products provide condition specific benefits for joint health, sports nutrition, weight management, cardiovascular health, blood sugar control, and mood health. InterHealth’s branded ingredients serve as the key active ingredients that provide scientifically-backed health and functionality benefits to finished products.

Family/founder-owned

Kettle Cuisine Inc.

All-natural, clean label, fresh soups, made the old-fashioned way

Founded in 1986, Kettle Cuisine makes its all-natural soups, sauces, broths, sous-vide entrees, and side dishes the old-fashioned way, in small batches from scratch for grocery retailers, restaurant chains, and foodservice operators. Kettle is passionate, innovative and committed to making fresh-prepared, wholesome, and delicious artisan food using real quality ingredients. Kettle Cuisine now has a bi-coastal footprint, serving the growing national base of customers looking for higher quality, all-natural products, and convenient meal solutions, allowing foodservice operators to serve consistent, high-quality meals while decreasing cost, complexity and labor in their operations.

JTM Foods

Manufacturer of private label and branded snack pies and crispy treats

As a trusted source for high-quality snack pies and sweet treats, JTM Foods makes its products fresh every day using homemade dough and real fruit fillings based on classic recipes. JTM Foods sells its handheld pies under the JJ’s Bakery brand, in addition to an array of private label snack pies and crispy treats, distributing to grocery, convenience, value, dollar and mass retailers across the country. The company also co-manufactures products for leading branded food companies throughout North America.

Muenster Milling Company

Innovative manufacturer of freeze-dried and extruded pet food and ingredients

Founded in 1932, Muenster Milling Company is a fourth-generation family-owned manufacturer of freeze-dried and extruded pet food, ingredients, and animal feed, delivering clean label and high protein products in a convenient format for pet and animal owners. With its suite of branded and co-manufactured offerings, Muenster is focused on providing products with high quality nutrition to meet the dietary needs of man’s best friend.

Family/founder-owned

Olde Thompson Inc.

Bi-coastal private label and branded spices and seasonings manufacturer

Founded in 1944, Olde Thompson is a supplier of private label and branded spices and seasonings, dry mixes, and extracts with a bi-coastal footprint. The Company is a trusted partner to its global customer base across the retail, foodservice, industrial, bakery, and export channels, providing complete spice category solutions for its domestic and international customers. By using stringent food safety practices and a network of global sourcing relationships, Olde Thompson ensures its products meet numerous safety and quality standards out of its state-of-the-art facilities. Olde Thompson’s products make food preparation easier and more flavorful.

Family/founder-owned

Product Quest Manufacturing, LLC

Contract and private label manufacturer of OTC topical personal care products

During Kainos’ ownership, Product Quest was a value-added contract and private label manufacturer of over-the-counter (OTC) and generic drug topical liquids, creams, gels, and sprays that in most cases contained an active pharmaceutical ingredient. The Company developed and manufactured small batch, value-added products, such as sun prevention and anti-aging lotions and sprays, acne treatments, first aid remedies, nasal sprays, high-end moisturizers, and animal flea medications. The Company’s customers included pharmaceutical and branded consumer product companies as well as leading retailers.

Family/founder-owned

Specialty Sales, LLC

Manufacturer of animal wellness technology solutions

Specialty Sales is an animal health, welfare, and technology distribution business serving dairy cows across the United States. The Company manufactures and installs automated hoof bath and fly spray systems on farms, providing replenishment solutions on a recurring basis, which are essential to maintaining dairy cow health and productivity by improving hoof hygiene.

Family/founder-owned

Trilliant Food and Nutrition

Manufacturer of high-quality beverage solutions

Founded in 1979, Trilliant offers a broad array of high-quality specialty coffees and beverages, ranging from coffee to cappuccinos, hot cocoas and much more. Trilliant is vertically integrated, meaning it sources, roasts, grinds and packages its own coffee beans, primarily in the single serve K-Cup format. This allows the Company to provide a full suite of beverage solutions to retailers throughout North America under its own and retailers’ brands.

SlimFast

Iconic weight loss and meal replacement brand

SlimFast/HNS (“SlimFast”) is an iconic weight loss and meal replacement brand with high brand awareness in the weight loss category. For over 40 years, SlimFast has helped millions of Americans take control of their diet, lose weight and keep it off. In addition to the flagship SlimFast brand, SlimFast has a collection of brands including Healthy Delights, Nu-Therapy, Power Beets, and Teatopia that provide a variety of condition specific benefits ranging from weight management to sports nutrition, beauty, and digestive health.

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Wellful

Efficacious direct-to-consumer health and wellness platform

Wellful is an omni-channel health and wellness platform offering clinically backed solutions in categories including weight management, men’s health, heart health, joint pain, gut health, and sleep. Wellful’s portfolio of well-recognized health and wellness brands includes Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig, men’s health brands Nugenix and Super Beta Prostate, and a full suite of condition-specific vitamin and supplement brands, including Instaflex (joint health), Peptiva (gut health and sleep), and Doctor’s Preferred (heart health, vision, liver health, and other categories). Wellful offers efficacious, convenient solutions for consumers’ health and wellness needs.

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Whisps

Delicious clean label, high protein, better-for-you cheese snack

Whisps is a better-for-you cheese snack brand that meets consumer demand for clean label, high protein, low carbohydrate, and gluten-free snacks. Developed by a multi-generation family-owned cheese importer and manufacturer, Whisps are made with 100% pure cheese, using proprietary recipes to create a crispy, crunchy and delicious snack. This healthier, delicious snacking option produced in various flavors is sure to beat even your cheesiest cravings.

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