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Turri’s Italian Foods
Turri’s is a leading provider of IQF (“individually quick frozen”) pasta and rice to a diverse customer base, including food manufacturing companies, large CPGs, restaurant chains, national retailers, and distributors. The Company’s products serve as key ingredient components in retail packaged pastas, ready-to-eat meals, prepared pastas, and deli salads.
R.M. Young
R.M. Young Company is a leading manufacturer of precision meteorological instrumentation offering a portfolio of products used to measure wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, precipitation, pressure, visibility, and other critical environmental parameters.
RP Foods
RP Foods is a leading branded, private label, and B2B Hispanic food and beverage products company selling to retail and CPG food customers across the United States and internationally. The Company’s product lines include Kuii coconut milk beverages, Masabrosa corn masa flour, tostadas, and cookies.
BSC Industries
BSC is a leading independent value-added distributor and engineered-solutions provider of bearings, power transmission components, motion control products, and electrical and automation products sold to OEM and MRO customers across diverse end markets.
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Legacy Bakehouse
Legacy Bakehouse is a leading developer and manufacturer of baked snack ingredients, including bagel chips, rye chips, pita chips, and other ingredients for leading CPG and retail customers.
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Animix
Animix is a leading B2B ingredients company serving the animal feed industry. Selling primarily to the calf milk replacer market, the company manufactures custom-formulated, water-dispersible vitamin and mineral premixes and supplements, distributes related ingredients, and provides excellent technical support.
Gum Products International
GPI is a leading B2B food ingredients company, focusing on proprietary hydrocolloid blends, vinegar-based antimicrobials, and other functional food ingredients and processing agents for a global customer base in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
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Farmers Hen House
Farmers Hen House sources, processes, packages and sells branded and private label specialty eggs, focusing on premium varieties such as organic, free range, and pasture raised, to leading natural, supermarket, mass, and club channel customers.
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Argus Monitoring Solutions
Formed by Benford Capital Partners in 2021, Argus Monitoring is a specialized test & measurement services platform focused on the seismic and environmental monitoring and inspection sectors (including vibration, noise, water, weather, air, dust, and other applications).
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Alpha Safety
Formed by Benford Capital Partners in 2021, Alpha Safety is a specialized safety products & services platform focused on the nuclear industry (covering areas such as material handling, transportation, storage, characterization/analysis, and waste remediation).
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Nutrition Service Company
Founded in 1983 and based in Pulaski, WI, Nutrition Service Company is a leading producer of custom feed blends for dairy cattle, processed soybean products, and other agricultural products and services. Nutrition Service operates five locations across Wisconsin, providing high quality feed and nutrition consulting services to many of the region’s largest dairy farms.
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Brothers International Food
Brothers is a highly successful food company with two distinct and complementary divisions: (i) the ingredients division, a value-added importer and distributor of unique and exotic fruit ingredients sold to large food and beverage companies and (ii) the Brothers All-Natural division, the market leader in branded, private-label, and co-branded freeze-dried fruit snacks sold through supermarket, mass, drug and e-commerce retailers.
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Atlas RFID Solutions
Founded in 2008 and based in Birmingham, AL, Atlas RFID Solutions is a value-added B2B eCommerce distributor of radio frequency identification (“RFID”) tags, readers, and equipment. Atlas is the largest independent “pure play” distributor of RFID products in North America. The Company also develops, integrates, and supports customized RFID solutions. RFID products are used in many applications such as inventory management, asset tracking, and asset control.
Droplet Measurement Technologies
Droplet Measurement Technologies is a leading manufacturer of scientific cloud and aerosol particle measurement instruments. Founded in 1987, DMT designs, engineers and manufactures highly accurate and market leading test and measurement instruments for three primary end market applications (1) cloud, water and ice particle research, (2) black carbon measurement and atmospheric research and (3) airborne bio-aerosol measurement. The company’s global customer base includes leading academic research institutions, government entities and aerospace and defense companies.
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Specialty Sales
Founded in 1999, Specialty Sales is the market leading provider of automated hoof bath systems and the preventative hoof care treatment products utilized in these systems for commercial dairies in the United States. The Company delivers a compelling value proposition to customers as its liquid chemical treatment products significantly reduce the incidence rate of hoof disease, a significant cause of economic loss on commercial dairies. Specialty Sales operates a “razor/razor blade” business model by installing and servicing its best-in-class hoof bath systems, and then selling and delivering its proprietary liquid chemical solution blends on a recurring basis.
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Saco Foods
Saco Foods is a branded, niche-market leading food products company selling primarily to supermarkets and mass retailers in the U.S. Founded in 1973, Saco’s primary products include Dolci Frutta, a chocolate hard-shell dessert dip for fruit, nuts, and other snacks, as well as powdered instant milk, powdered dry buttermilk, and baking cocoa sold under the Saco Pantry family of brands. Saco is recognized for its commitment to quality and unique, innovative products, which has helped the Company establish and maintain long-term relationships with its top customers.
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U.S. Underwater Services, LLC
U.S. Underwater Services, LLC is a leading provider of underwater inspection and maintenance & repair services. The company serves inland and offshore markets. Inland customers include municipalities, government facilities, nuclear power plants and industrial facilities. The offshore business focuses on oil drilling rigs, oil platforms and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico.
ENMET, LLC
ENMET, LLC is a leading manufacturer of oxygen monitors, as well as toxic and combustible gas detectors. Founded in 1970, ENMET’s products range from compressed air line monitors to portable detectors and continuous multi-channel fixed systems which address a wide variety of hazardous gas conditions. ENMET also designs custom engineered gas and vapor detection systems for a wide range of applications.
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LiteSentry
Founded in 1999, LiteSentry is a leading provider of automated inspection and process control systems to the flat glass fabrication market. The Company’s systems are used to inspect glass during production for optical distortion, stress profiles, defects, coatings, and other critical product quality attributes.
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K&H Pet Products, LLC
K&H Pet Products, LLC is the market leading provider of thermal pet products in the U.S. K&H has also entered several additional pet product categories including traditional beds, pet travel and filtered drinking bowls. K&H’s products are highly regarded and known for quality, reliability and safety.
Space Electronics LLC
Space Electronics LLC is the world leader in high-precision mass properties test & measurement instruments and services. The company’s products are sold primarily to the aerospace, defense and military markets. Space Electronics’ instruments measure center of gravity, moment of inertia, product of inertia, moment weight and dynamic balance. The company also manufactures igniter circuit testers and precision ohmmeters.
Ray Allen Manufacturing, LLC
Ray Allen Manufacturing, LLC is the leading manufacturer and direct marketer of professional canine training products to the law enforcement, military and working dog niche markets in the U.S. The company sells primarily via catalog to canine professionals in law enforcement, military, homeland security, correctional, professional security and drug enforcement fields.
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ESG
ESG delivers Customer Success as a Service (CSaaS), building and supporting customized programs that extend, optimize, and grow Customer Success organizations. The company partners closely with their customers (primarily large software companies) on Customer Success strategies and executes on those strategies by delivering processes, technology solutions, thought leadership, consultation, marketing and digital communication services, unique insights, and exceptional experiences directly to end-users.
Double L
Double L is a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of ventilation and flooring products for the commercial poultry and swine industries. Founded in 1973, products include ceiling and side-wall inlets, farrowing crates, circulation fans, and a diverse line of plastic and metal flooring products. The products are engineered and designed to make facilities more efficient and hygienic, and present a compelling return on investment based on improved animal yields and reduced energy costs.
Warehouse-Lighting.com
Founded in 2008, Warehouse-Lighting.com is a B2B eCommerce value-added distributor and marketer of high-quality, energy efficient LED lighting fixtures and related products for the industrial, commercial, municipal, and residential end-markets. The Company was included in Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5,000 list of America’s fastest growing private companies in 2016 and 2017 and Biz Time’s Future 50 in 2017.
Imperial Laundry Systems, LLC
Imperial Laundry Systems, LLC is a leading regional commercial laundry services provider. The company provides laundry services primarily for hospitals and hotels.
Badger Land Car Wash Equipment and Supplies, LLC
Badger Land Car Wash Equipment and Supplies, LLC is the leading distributor of car wash equipment, chemicals, parts and service in Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Northern Illinois. Badgerland has an excellent reputation for service and quality and is one of the largest distributors in the industry.