Sale to Highview Capital, LLC

Consumer
Sale to Highview Capital, LLC

Summary

Baird served as the exclusive financial advisor to Good Source, Inc. and Evergreen Pacific Partners on this transaction

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Good Source, Inc. (“Good Source” or the “Company”), a portfolio company of Evergreen Pacific Partners (“Evergreen”), was recently acquired by Highview Capital, LLC (“Highview”).

Good Source, founded in 1989, is a specialized food distributor and solution provider with sophisticated procurement and logistical capabilities serving a wide spectrum of value-focused end markets through a national network of facilities. The Company has expanded into more logistics capabilities, food assortments, and diverse end markets through four acquisitions: Northwest Distribution, Harvest Farms, Dori Foods, and Pon Foods. Additionally, the Company provides menu/recipe planning and value-added product enhancements addressing complex packaging, labeling, nutrition, and dietary requirements. Good Source is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

Evergreen Pacific Partners, which manages two private equity funds totaling $700 million, invests in traditional buyouts, management led buyouts, and growth equity investments involving traditional middle-market companies in the Western United States and Canada. Evergreen’s investors include foundations, endowments, pension funds and West Coast-based CEOs with experience in Evergreen's target industries. Evergreen is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Founded in 2016, Highview is a $500 million evergreen private equity fund. Highview invests in and provides strategic and operational resources to middle market businesses poised to undergo a transformation. Highview is backed by patient capital from a single LP, allowing it to take a long-term perspective. Highview employs a highly flexible investment mandate, and invests in family/founder owned businesses, corporate carveouts, value-oriented buyouts and special situations.Highview is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
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Consumer
Sale to Highview Capital, LLC
Date
June 2018
Company
Good Source, Inc.
Transaction
M&A
Sectors
Consumer
Target Geography
North America
Acquiror Geography
North America

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