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John D. Howard
Irving Place Capital, formerly known as Bear Stearns Merchant Banking (BSMB), is an American private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in middle-market companies in the industrial, packaging, consumer and retail industries. Based in New York City, it has total committed capital across its funds of $5.9 billion. The firm's predecessor Bear Stearns Merchant Banking was founded in 1997 by John D. Howard, formerly a co-founder of Vestar Capital Partners. The group completed its separation from Bear Stearns' owner JPMorgan Chase in 2008. Investments Since inception, Irving Place Capital and its predecessor, Bear Stearns Merchant Banking has made a number of investments in notable companies in the retail, consumer products, healthcare, energy, financial services, financial and business services, packaging and industrial sectors. Among the firm's most notable investments are the following (separated by the private equity fund from which the invest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Irving may refer to: People *Irving (name), including a list of people with the name Fictional characters * Irving, the main character's love interest in Cathy (comic strip) * Lloyd Irving, the main protagonist in the ''Tales of Symphonia'' video game * Irving, A recycling collecting chuggington, chugger Places Canada * Irving Nature Park, a park in Saint John, N.B. United States *Irving, California, former name of Irvington, California *Irving, Illinois *Irving, Iowa *Irving (Duluth), Minnesota *Irving, New York *Irving, Texas *Irving, Wisconsin, a town **Irving (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois * Irving Township, Montgomery County, Illinois * Irving Township, Michigan * Irving Township, Minnesota * Lake Irving, a lake in Minnesota Companies * Irving Group of Companies, Canadian conglomerate based in Saint John, New Brunswick, controlled by the Irving family, including: ** J. D. Irving, a conglomerate with holdings in forestry, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energy
Energy () is the physical quantity, quantitative physical property, property that is transferred to a physical body, body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of Work (thermodynamics), work and in the form of heat and light. Energy is a Conservation law, conserved quantity—the law of conservation of energy states that energy can be Energy transformation, converted in form, but not created or destroyed. The unit of measurement for energy in the International System of Units (SI) is the joule (J). Forms of energy include the kinetic energy of a moving object, the potential energy stored by an object (for instance due to its position in a Classical field theory, field), the elastic energy stored in a solid object, chemical energy associated with chemical reactions, the radiant energy carried by electromagnetic radiation, the internal energy contained within a thermodynamic system, and rest energy associated with an object's rest mass. These are not mutual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merchant Banking
A merchant bank is historically a bank dealing in commercial loans and investment. In modern British usage, it is the same as an investment bank. Merchant banks were the first modern banks and evolved from medieval merchants who traded in commodities, particularly cloth merchants. Historically, merchant banks' purpose was to facilitate or finance the production and trade of commodities, hence the name ''merchant''. Few banks today restrict their activities to such a narrow scope. In modern usage in the United States, the term additionally has taken on a more narrow meaning, and refers to a financial institution providing capital to companies in form of share ownership instead of loans. A merchant bank also provides advice on corporate matters to the firms in which they invest. History Merchant banks were the first modern banks. They emerged in the Middle Ages from the Italian grain and cloth merchants community and started to develop in the 11th century during the large Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Vitamin Shoppe
The Vitamin Shoppe (formerly Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc., stylized as the VitaminShoppe) is an American, New Jersey–based retailer of nutritional supplements. It also operated three stores in Canada under the name VitaPath from January 2013 until March 2016. The company provides approximately 7,000 different SKUs of supplements through its retail stores and over 17,000 different SKUs of supplements through its retail websites. Vitamin Shoppe was acquired by Franchise Group on December 16, 2019. History Jeffrey Horowitz founded The Vitamin Shoppe in 1977. In 2002, Vitamin Shoppe Industries was sold to an affiliate of Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, a private equity unit of Bear Stearns, for approximately $310 million. The Vitamin Shoppe held an initial public offering on October 26, 2009. The company made $751.5 million in net sales in fiscal 2010 and had a market capitalization of over $1 billion. Since attaining its peak in February 2013, the stock has l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Weitzman
Stuart A. Weitzman (born July 1941) is an American shoe designer, philatelist, and founder of the shoe company Stuart Weitzman. Weitzman has designed footwear for Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Career In the late 1950s, Weitzman's father, Seymour Weitzman, and his older brother Warren opened a shoe factory in Haverhill, Massachusetts, called "Seymour Shoes". Weitzman began designing shoes for his father's business in the early 1960s. Weitzman graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1958 and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. When Seymour died in 1965, Warren and Stuart ran the business. They sold the business to a company in Spain in 1971, and Weitzman continued to design shoes for the company. In 1994, he bought back the business, but he continues to manufacture his shoe designs in Spain. Weitzman is known for providing one-of-a-kind, "million dollar" shoes to Oscar nominees to wear at the Academy Awards such as the pair of platinum sandals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven For All Mankind
7 For All Mankind (often referred to simply as 7FAM) is an American denim brand founded by Michael Glasser, Peter Koral, and Jerome Dahan in 2000 and headquartered in Vernon, California. It was purchased by the VF Corporation in 2007 and sold to Delta Galil Industries in 2016. 7 for All Mankind began by designing women's jeans. A men's jeans line was introduced in fall 2002, and its Children Denim Collection for boys and girls in fall 2005. The brand is sold in over 80 countries including Europe, Canada, and Japan. History Dahan and Glasser, denim designers who had worked in the apparel industry for years, created the company in response to what they saw as a void in the contemporary denim market. Focusing on female denim wearers, it has been stated that the company was successful because of the fit, fabrics, washes, attention to detail, and the logo on the product's back pockets.Denim has legs, ''The San Diego Union-Tribune'', October 5, 2005 7 For All Mankind's proximity t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reddy Ice
Reddy Ice (stylized ReddyIce) is the largest packaged ice manufacturer in the United States, serving approximately 82,000 customer locations under the Reddy Ice brand name. It was originally formed in 1972 as a division of the Southland Corporation (the parent company of 7-Eleven), who sold it off to what would become Suiza Foods in 1988. It was sold to private investors in 2000 and went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2005. The company declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April 2012, in Dallas Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ..., citing $434 million in assets against $531 million in liabilities. Centerbridge Partners invested and assumed control of Reddy Ice. Stone Canyon Industries Holdings LLC, purchased Reddy Ice in July 2019 from Centerbridge Partner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York & Company
New York & Company, Inc. (NY&C) is an e-commerce workwear retailer for women. New York & Company apparel and accessories are sold exclusively through their digital store. From 1918 to 1992, the company was known as Lerner Shops. Its name was then changed to Lerner New York and then to New York & Company. The company began retailing exclusively through its digital store in 2020. Company history Lerner Shops The company started as Lorraine Shops in 1917. Lerner Shops was founded in 1918 by brothers Samuel A. Lerner, Joseph J. Lerner, and Michael Lerner, and Harold M. Lane in New York City. Joseph was the father of lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. The first Lerner Shops store was in New York City; 18 more shops opened later that year. The company was then organized under Lerner Stores Corporation. By 1920, 23 Lerner Shops were in operation. Within ten years, that figure grew to 160 units in 37 states. In 1948, the company was said to have just under 200 stores nationwide. In 1963, McCro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CamelBak
CamelBak Products, LLC is an American outdoor equipment company based in Petaluma, California, best known for its hydration products, such as hydration packs and water bottles. CamelBak is also a supplier of protective gear and other products to the U.S. military. History In 1989, CamelBak founder Michael Eidson was competing in the Hotter 'n Hell 100 bicycle race in Wichita Falls, Texas. Eidson, who was an emergency medical technician by trade, filled an IV bag with water and stuck it in a tube sock. He then pinned the tube sock to the back of his jersey, pulled the tube over his shoulder, and secured it with a clothes pin. Within a few months, he brought the idea to Roger Fawcett, who tested it in scientific studies, and began selling the first CamelBak product, the ThermalBak. This product failed to catch on at first because cyclists thought it looked "geeky". After almost giving up, Fawcett decided to spend his last $50,000 on an advertising agency and marketing the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard Hotel
The Standard Hotels is a worldwide chain of twelve boutique hotels operated by Standard International Management. The chain was established in 1999.Its two original properties, in Hollywood and Los Angeles, closed in 2021 and 2022 respectively. In October 2024, Hyatt Hotels completed the purchase of Standard International, the company responsible for managing The Standard and Bunkhouse Hotels. History The first Standard Hotel, The Standard, Hollywood, opened on the Sunset Strip in 1999 in West Hollywood, California. It was developed by Andre Balazs Properties. The structure was originally built in 1962 as the Thunderbird Motel, and had become a retirement home when Balazs purchased and remodeled it. Original investors in the Hollywood hotel were Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Benicio del Toro, D'arcy Wretzky and James Iha. In 2002, the former headquarters of the Superior Oil Company (completed in 1956) a twelve-story, marble-clad building was converted into The Standar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NRT Incorporated
Anywhere Advisors (formerly Realogy Brokerage Group, NRT, or National Realty Trust) is an American residential real estate brokerage company headquartered in Madison, New Jersey. A subsidiary of Anywhere Real Estate, Inc. (formerly Realogy Holdings Corp.). As of 2022, the company owns and operates over 40 brokerage firms in approximately 55 U.S. markets. Most firms are branded under the Coldwell Banker, Coldwell Banker Commercial, Sotheby's International Realty or Corcoran Group brands. History National Realty Trust was formed in 1996 when Cendant, (then HFS Inc.) purchased Coldwell Banker Corporation. The trust was responsible for the nearly 400 brokerage offices that had been acquired in the Coldwell Banker purchase as well as continuing to acquire offices and renaming them with one of Cendant's brand names (Coldwell Banker, ERA and Century 21). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
