CR Brands is a
consumer goods company formed in 2006 by
Allied Capital
Allied Capital was a private equity investment firm and mezzanine capital lender providing debt and equity capital for leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and restructurings of established businesses. Allied operated as a Business Development Compan ...
through a merger of two of its subsidiaries.
History
Allied Capital acquired
ChemPro, Inc., in March 2006. Allied then merged
Redox and ChemPro, Inc., with the resulting company being renamed CR Brands. ChemPro's Chief Executive Officer retained the title through the merger with Richard Owen being named Chief Operating Officer. Manufacturing of the Redox brands would be moved to the ChemPro plants.
With Allied Capital coming into financial difficulties,
Juggernaut Capital Partners
A juggernaut (), in current English usage, is a literal or metaphorical force regarded as merciless, destructive, and unstoppable. This English usage originated in the mid-nineteenth century and was adapted from the Sanskrit word Jagannath.
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LP purchased CR from them in 2009. Juggernaut sold CR to Resilience Capital Partners' Resilience Fund III LP in September 2012.
Brands
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Biz
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Oxydol
Oxydol is a brand of laundry detergent sold in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It was created in 1914 by Thomas Hedley Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne and purchased by Procter & Gamble in 1927. It was P&G's first laundry soap. In th ...
* Dryel
*Mean Green
* Pine Power
* Magnum Power
See also
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ChemPro, Inc.
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Redox Brands
Redox Brands was a marketing company formed in 2000 by Todd Wichmann and Richard Owen, former executives with the multinational consumer products firm Procter & Gamble (P&G). The company's first product was Oxydol brand purchased from P&G. P&G woul ...
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Prestige Brands
Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. (formerly Prestige Brands, Inc.) is an American company that markets and distributes over-the-counter healthcare and household cleaning products. It was formed by the merger of Medtech Products, Inc., Prestige B ...
, also owns former P&G brands
External links
Official website
References
Companies based in Ohio
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