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Blum Capital
Blum Capital Partners, L.P., also known as Blum Capital, is an American private equity firm founded in 1975 by Richard C. Blum. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is focused on leveraged buyout, growth capital and PIPE investments in small cap and middle-market companies. Blum Capital became known for pioneering a hybrid strategy for investing in public companies, combining private equity and strategic block investment. History Prior to founding his eponymous firm, Richard C. Blum worked at Sutro & Co., an investment management and brokerage company. While working at Sutro & Co., he led a partnership that acquired the struggling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1967, for $8 million. The Circus was then sold to Mattel Inc. for $50 million, in 1971. Blum founded Blum Capital in 1975. As of 2011, Blum Capital managed $2.73 billion in stocks and investments. Significant investments for Blum Capital have come from Fair Isaac, Lenovo, DHL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Blum may refer to: Places * Kfar Blum, a kibbutz in Israel United States * Blum, Texas, a town * Blum Basin Falls, a waterfall in Washington * Blum Lakes, six lakes in Washington Science and technology * Blum axioms, in computational complexity theory * Blum integer, in mathematics * Blum's speedup theorem In computational complexity theory, Blum's speedup theorem, first stated by Manuel Blum in 1967, is a fundamental theorem about the complexity of computable functions. Each computable function has an infinite number of different program representa ..., in computational complexity theory Other uses * Blum (surname), including a list of people with the name * Julius Blum, a company manufacturing hinges in Austria * ''Blum'' (film), a 1970 Argentine film * BLUM, an art gallery in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York * ''Blum'' (podcast), a fiction podcast * Blum House (1902), historic house in Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.; NRHP-listed See also * Blüm * '' The Lost Hono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutro & Co
Sutro is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * (1784–1869), German rabbi in Gelsenkirchen * Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), Mayor of San Francisco * Florence Sutro (1865–1906), musician and painter, sister-in-law of Adolph and Otto Sutro * Otto Sutro (1833–1896), Adolph's brother, a musician of Baltimore * Alfred Sutro (1863–1933), British playwright * Rose and Ottilie Sutro (1870–1957 and 1872–1970), daughters of Otto, one of the first piano duo teams * John Sutro (1903–1985), British film producer * John Sutro (American football) (born 1940) See also * Sutro, Nevada * Sutro Tunnel in Nevada * Sutro District in San Francisco, containing: ** Sutro Baths ** Sutro Heights Park * Mount Sutro in San Francisco ** Sutro Tower on Mount Sutro * Sutro Library, San Francisco branch of the California State Library The California State Library is the state library of the State of California, founded in 1850 by the California State Legislature. The Library coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia
Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilisations. Its 4.7 billion people constitute roughly 60% of the world's population. Asia shares the landmass of Eurasia with Europe, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. In general terms, it is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. The border of Asia with Europe is a social constructionism, historical and cultural construct, as there is no clear physical and geographical separation between them. A commonly accepted division places Asia to the east of the Suez Canal separating it from Africa; and to the east of the Turkish straits, the Ural Mountains an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACON Investments
ACON Investments is an American international private equity investment company that administers private equity funds as well as special purpose partnerships which invest in Latin America, the United States, and Europe. The organization was started in 1996, and is based in Washington, D.C. It is responsible for administrating over US$5 billion worth of capital. The company has facilities in District of Columbia, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Bogotá, and São Paulo. Subsidiaries * Igloo Products * Funko * In August 2018, ACON Investments purchased Goody Products, Inc. from Newell Brands. * BioMatrix Specialty Pharmacy * True Value The True Value Company is an American wholesaler and Hardware store brand. The corporate headquarters are located in Chicago. Historically True Value was a cooperative owned by retailers, but in 2018 it was purchased by ACON Investments. In Oc ... References External links * Financial services companies established in 1996 Investment companies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Pacific Group
TPG Inc., previously known as Texas Pacific Group and TPG Capital, is an American private equity firm based in Fort Worth, Texas. TPG manages investment funds in growth capital, venture capital, public equity, and debt investments. The firm invests in a range of industries including consumer/retail, media and telecommunications, industrials, technology, travel, leisure, and health care. TPG became a public company in January 2022, trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “TPG”. History and notable investments Founding and early history Texas Pacific Group, later TPG Capital, was founded in 1992 by David Bonderman, James Coulter and William S. Price III. Prior to founding TPG, Bonderman and Coulter had worked for Robert Bass, making leveraged buyout investments during the 1980s. In 1993, Coulter and Bonderman partnered with GE Capital vice president of strategic planning and business development William S. Price III to complete the buyout of Continental Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newbridge Capital
Newbridge may refer to: Places Australia *Newbridge, New South Wales *Newbridge, Victoria England *Newbridge, Bath, electoral ward, Somerset *Newbridge, Cornwall, three places in Cornwall with the same name *Hartfield#Newbridge, Newbridge, East Sussex *Newbridge, Isle of Wight *Newbridge, North Yorkshire *Newbridge, River Thames, Newbridge, Oxfordshire *Newbridge, Wolverhampton, a suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands *The Newbridge School Ireland *Avoca, County Wicklow, a small town, once known as ''Newbridge'' *Newbridge, County Galway, a village *Newbridge, County Kildare, a large town, sometimes known by its Irish name ''Droichead Nua'' Northern Ireland *Newbridge, County Londonderry, a townland Scotland *Newbridge, Edinburgh, a village to the west of Edinburgh Wales *Newbridge, Caerphilly (traditionally in Monmouthshire) *Newbridge, Ceredigion *Newbridge, Wrexham *Newbridge-on-Wye, Powys *Newbridge-on-Usk, Monmouthshire Bridges *Newbridge, River Dart, bridge over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CB Richard Ellis
CBRE Group, Inc. (an initialism of Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis) is an American commercial real estate services and investment firm with corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas and global financial headquarters at Lever House in Midtown Manhattan. It is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2022 revenue). The firm is ranked 135th on the Fortune 500 and has been included in the Fortune 500 every year since 2008. CBRE serves more than 95 of the companies on the Fortune 100. It is one of the "Big 4" commercial real estate services companies, alongside Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers and JLL. Services CBRE provides services to both occupiers of and investors in real estate. For occupiers, CBRE provide facilities management, project management, transaction (both property sales and leasing) and consulting services, financial services, and valuation, among others. For investors, CBRE provide capital markets (property sales, commercial mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DHL Airways
DHL Aviation is a division of logistics multinational DHL responsible for providing air transport capacity. Overview DHL Aviation is a group of airlines that are either owned, co-owned or chartered by DHL Express. DHL owns six main airlines to service various global regions: *European Air Transport Leipzig (EAT Leipzig) is responsible for the major part of the network for Europe, and for long-haul services to the Middle East and Africa. It operates a fleet of Boeing and Airbus freighters from its hub at the Leipzig/Halle Airport. * DHL Air UK (DHL Air), acquired by DHL in 1989, is based at East Midlands Airport. Since July 2000, it has operated a fleet of Boeing 757 Freighters on intra-European services and a fleet of Boeing 767 freighters, primarily on transatlantic routes. * DHL Aero Expreso is a subsidiary in the Central and South America Hub in Tocumen, Panamá, operating a fleet of Boeing 737-400, 757-200 and 767-300 freighters which also serve destinations in the Caribb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenovo
Lenovo Group Limited, trading as Lenovo ( , zh, c=联想, p=Liánxiǎng), is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, servers, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, and related services. Its global headquarters are in Beijing, China, and Morrisville, North Carolina, United States; it has research centers at these locations, elsewhere in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, in Stuttgart, Germany, and in Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan. Lenovo originated as an offshoot of a state-owned research institute. Then known as Legend and distributing foreign IT products, co-founder Liu Chuanzhi incorporated Legend in Hong Kong in an attempt to raise capital and was successfully permitted to build computers in China, and were helped by the American AST Research. Legend listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1994 and became the largest PC manufacturer in China and eventua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair Isaac
FICO (legal name: Fair Isaac Corporation), originally Fair, Isaac and Company, is an American data analytics company based in Bozeman, Montana, focused on credit scoring services. It was founded by Bill Fair and Earl Isaac in 1956. Its FICO score, a measure of consumer credit risk, has become a fixture of consumer lending in the United States. In 2013, lenders purchased more than 10 billion FICO scores and about 30 million American consumers accessed their scores themselves. The company reported a revenue of $1.29 billion for the fiscal year of 2020. History FICO was founded in 1956 as Fair, Isaac and Company by engineer William R. "Bill" Fair and mathematician Earl Judson Isaac. The two met while working at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California. Selling its first credit scoring system two years after the company's creation, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattel Inc
Mattel, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company headquartered in El Segundo, California. Founded in Los Angeles by Harold Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Ruth and Elliot Handler in January 1945, Mattel has a presence in 35 countries and territories; its products are sold in more than 150 countries. It is the world's second largest toy maker in terms of revenue, after the Lego Group. Two of its historic and most valuable brands, Barbie and Hot Wheels, were respectively named the top global toy property and the top-selling global toy of the year for 2020 and 2021 by the NPD Group, a global information research company. History Origins and early years Businessman Harold "Matt" Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Elliot and Ruth Handler founded Mattel as Mattel Creations in January 1945 in a garage in Los Angeles. The company name chosen is a portmanteau of the surname of Matson and first name of Elliot, with former chairman a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
