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COMPANY YEAR SOLD SECTOR YEAR OF INVESTMENT TYPE OF SALE DOCUMENTS
Avalon Natural Products 2010 Nutrition 2007 Financial Buyer
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Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. provides the largest and best-known, scientifically-supported carbohydrate-optimization weight-management program and is the second-largest U.S. weight management brand at retail. North Castle in partnership with an experienced team led a transformational product reformulation, repackaging and re-launch combined with the development of a new customer-focused marketing program repositioning Atkins as a diet and lifestyle program. Named 2011 Turnaround of the Year by Buyouts Magazine.
Avalon Natural Products 2008 Consumer Health 2000 Strategic Buyer
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Enzymatic Therapy is recognized for its high quality manufacturing of proprietary premium natural medicines and nutritional supplements. During North Castle's ownership, Enzymatic consolidated the highly fragmented practitioner market with the acquisition of four brands and extended its reach into national health food and selected mass market stores.
Avalon Natural Products 2007 Aesthetics & Personal Care 2002 Strategic Buyer
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HDS Cosmetics Lab is a leading marketer of cosmeceutical skincare products operating under the brand name, Doctor's Dermatologic Formula. During North Castle’s ownership, the company underwent a complete business transformation focused on outsourcing operations, upgrading the management team, reducing SKUs and complexity, and implementing supply chain and fulfillment capabilities to support growth.
Avalon Natural Products 2007 Aesthetics & Personal Care 2002 Strategic Buyer
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Avalon is a recognized leader in the natural products category in the areas of skin care, hair care, bath and body and sun care. During North Castle’s ownership, we focused on growing the company’s two dominant brands, Avalon Organics and Alba Botanica, recruited a strong, professional management team with significant experience in the natural products industry, implemented systems, and positioned the brands through new product development and marketing support to drive growth.
Naked Juice Company 2007 Nutrition 2000 Strategic Buyer
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Naked Juice is the leading independent producer and marketer of super premium refrigerated juices and juice smoothies in the United States. Under North Castle’s ownership, the Naked Juice management team integrated operations, upgraded financial management and infrastructure, and grew the Naked Juice brand from a West Coast regional business into a national market leader.
CRC 2006 Consumer Health 2002 Financial Buyer
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CRC is a for profit provider of substance abuse treatment services helping more than 20,000 people daily. During North Castle's ownership, CRC completed four acquisitions, expanded its presence from 3 to 22 states, more than tripled its facilities, doubled the number of beds and the residential census while adding new businesses, including opiate treatment and eating disorders.
Grand Expeditions 2006 Home & Leisure 2001 Strategic Buyer
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North Castle created Grand Expeditions to build a leading supplier of luxury and adventure travel through the consolidation of select "best in class" companies in the high-end segment of the tour operator industry. GEI completed eight acquisitions under North Castle's ownership. North Castle supported GEI through the tragic events of September 11th and rebuilt the company to a profitable and stable enterprise.
Equinox 2006 Fitness & Recreation 2000 Strategic Buyer
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Equinox is an operator of high-end fitness clubs. At the time of acquisition, Equinox had 11 units all located in New York City. Under North Castle's ownership, Equinox expanded nationally into four additional markets (Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and South Florida), opened 21 clubs and more than doubled membership. At the time of sale, Equinox had become one of the best known and highly regarded fitness lifestyle brands.
Experimental & Applied Sciences, Inc. 2004 Nutrition 1999 Strategic Buyer
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EAS develops and markets premium nutritional food and beverage products, primarily nutrition bars and ready-to-drink shakes. During North Castles ownership, EAS was transformed from a high-end specialty retailer into a leading multi-channel, consumer marketing company that develops, markets and distributes on a global basis the highest quality nutritional food and beverage products in a variety of convenient formats.
Leiner Health Products 2004 Nutrition 1997 Recap­i­tal­ization
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Leiner is a manufacturer and marketer of vitamins, minerals and nutritional supplements and over the counter ("OTC") pharmaceuticals. Under North Castle's ownership the company dramatically enhanced its operating performance, including focusing its customer and product portfolio, expanded into OTCs and contract manufacturing, consolidated its manufacturing, refined its new product development processes and completed strategic acquisitions to broaden its product offering.
 


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