Top Retail Distributors Holding Companies with Recent Private M&A Activity

211

Active Firms

6,339

TTM Deal Inquiries

$4M-$19M

Core Revenue Range

$900K-$4M

Core EBITDA Range

Top States by Activity

California 14%

Florida 14%

Texas 10%

New York 6%

New Jersey 4%

Key Attributes

Focus: Long-Term Ownership | Capital Source: Committed Capital | Operating Approach: Buy & Hold

WhiteHorn Partners

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We recognize and appreciate the critical role that small and mid-sized businesses serve in communities and economies across the country. We founded WhiteHorn Partners with the goal of bringing our energy and passion to one such company while carrying forward its legacy and building upon its success. We come from a family with a history of entrepreneurship and success in building and growing businesses. Both sides of our family have experience with founding, operating, and exiting successful companies. On our father’s side of the family, our grandfather partnered with his father to…

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RSV Holdings LLC

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RSV Holdings LLC is a private retail & manufacturing company based in Arizona that is focused on acquiring small to medium sized companies in the confectionery/chocolate consumer goods industries. We are seeking exceptional companies that have strong brands and manufacturing capabilities or distribution networks that can be combined with our other companies to bring great products to a wider audience of consumers.

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Portfolio Ops Group LLC

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Portfolio Ops Group acquires and grows established B2B businesses in North Texas. We buy one platform company at a time, invest in its people and systems, and expand it through operational improvement and add-on acquisitions. We are long-term owners with a single mandate, which means the business we buy gets our full attention rather than a slot in a portfolio.Managing Director Brian Wright has completed more than 20 acquisitions over a 20+ year operating and private equity career, including eight integrations led as a portfolio operations principal at Sole Source Capital. His operating roles…

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Lynnfield

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Lynnfield is a long-term holding company that acquires and develops businesses with enduring value. The company focuses on buying small to lower middle market businesses from retiring business owners.Here's our criteria:$0.5-5MM in Cash Flow/SDEIdeally 10+ years in businessIdeally an owner retirement scenarioIdeally has a recurring or reoccurring revenue componentTarget industries are:Business Services: Professional & Administrative Services, IT & Technical Services, Facilities & Property Services, Logistics, Field & Industrial ServicesHome Services: Maintenance & Repair,…

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Reify Holding Inc

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Reify is a holdco with existing ownership of portfolio companies in Media & Design, Food & Beverage, and Imports & Exports. We understand by experience that each small business is different, and each situation is different. We're interested in healthy EBITDA small businesses and have experience centralizing functions that small businesses typically (finance, marketing, etc),

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Palingen Capital

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Palingen is an evergreen holding company that acquires lower middle market businesses from legacy-minded owners, invests deeply in the people, strengthens the operations, and stewards the companies for the long term.Our mission is to deliver superior long term economic results through investments in companies that are financially compelling, ethically sound, and socially uplifting.Palingen aims to be the most sought after capital partner for legacy-minded owners of quality businesses looking to monetize their life’s work.

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Mix Tape Ventures, Inc

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Mix Tape Ventures is a diversified management company whose companies are focused on industries including: commercial refrigeration parts and service, personalized gifting, and specialty food distribution. MTV oversees the operations of its companies, allocates resources among them, and helps to improve the performance of its operations.

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Glencoe Diversified Holdings

24 Total Closed Deals

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Glencoe Diversified Holdings owns and operates 7+ operating businesses across diverse industries (Chemicals, Insurance, Manufacturing, Energy, Childcare, etc.). Actively acquiring bolt-ons and strategic acquisitions for existing platforms, as well as expanding into new sectors.

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Dec 2012 Acquired Arrow Energy Services
Dec 2012 Acquired Encore Rehabilitation Services
Nov 2011 Acquired Budco Holdings, Inc.
Dec 2010 Acquired Campbell Grinder Company

Kamylon Capital

11 Total Closed Deals

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Kamylon Capital is a Managerial Holding Company that invests in and provides ownership transition solutions to LargeLocal™ businesses. Typically family or entrepreneur-controlled and often owner-operated, LargeLocal™ businesses range from roughly $8 to $80 million in revenue and $1 to $8 million in free cash flow. These businesses usually demonstrate a strong competitive position in their local market or within a national or global market niche. Kamylon prides itself on its creativity, flexibility, and sensitivity in responding to each LargeLocal™ transaction consideration to ensure a…

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Apr 2016 Acquired Healthcare Transportation Provider
Jul 2015 Acquired Transformative Healthcare
Aug 2013 Acquired Tru-Fire
Jun 2012 Acquired Muzzy Products

Olympus Power

10 Total Closed Deals

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Olympus Power, LLC is a privately held U.S. independent power company based in Morristown, NJ, which owns and manages power plants that sell electricity and thermal energy to utilities and industrial concerns. Our firm maintains full or partial equity interests in these projects in order to optimize these assets by better aligning interests. Our portfolio includes efficient gas-fired cogeneration facilities, renewables such as biomass, hydroelectric and wind-powered facilities, in addition to alternative technologies like our waste coal operations.The principals of Olympus previously grew…

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Aug 2023 Invested in Burney Forest Power
Aug 2023 Invested in Bay Shore Plant
Aug 2023 Invested in Cadillac Renewable
Aug 2023 Invested in Bridgewater Power

PE Management Group

10 Total Closed Deals

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PE Management Group is a holding company firm focused on small to medium-sized acquisitions. We partner with exceptional companies seeking the next stage of growth. Post-acquisition, we work closely with our portfolio companies to drive measurable value for all stakeholders.

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Aug 2023 Acquired BEACH HOUSE
Aug 2023 Acquired CannonBall
Aug 2023 Acquired Viewpoint Luxury Apartments
Aug 2023 Acquired Latitude 37 Apartments

Samsara Management

8 Total Closed Deals

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Samsara Management is a Miami-based alternative asset management firm that invests in small and mid-sized companies, in the United States and Japan, through leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and growth equity investments. The company invests in a wide variety of industries and sectors that include real estate as well as educational services, retail, advertising, and recreational vehicles. Samsara has an investment strategy that is both prudent yet dynamic and works in close collaboration with the management team to develop significant operational and growth strategies.

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Aug 2023 Acquired Apphive
Aug 2023 Acquired ALH Media
Aug 2023 Acquired MARWIN SPORTS
Aug 2023 Acquired TAGA Publishing

Delight Holdings

8 Total Closed Deals

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About UsWe are business builders with experience investing, operating, and growing businesses. We are interested and have had success with both control and minority deals. We partner with excellent people to build strong and durable companies. We are long term oriented with the ability to own businesses for decades.

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Oct 2021 Invested in All Points North
May 2021 Acquired Wendy's Long Island Restaurants
Mar 2021 Acquired Wendy's Raleigh Restaurants
Jan 2020 Invested in NPC Holdings

Gray Fox Strategic

8 Total Closed Deals

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We have a holding company that owns and operates franchises in the southeast. We currently work with 5 different brands. We are continuing to grow these brands organically, but also looking to acquire businesses outside of franchising. We self-fund all of our acquisitions and we run each brand portfolio with our own internal teams.

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Dec 2022 Acquired Two Men And A Truck
Jul 2022 Acquired Smash My Trash
Jun 2022 Acquired Smash My Trash
Aug 2019 Acquired Two Men And A Truck

Tyton Holdings, Inc

6 Total Closed Deals

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At Tyton Holdings we have established a portfolio of successful oilfield and energy companies. We are looking to grow in our current industries as well as expand to others.We are privately owned and headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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Jan 2025 Acquired Tyton Infrastructure
Jan 2023 Acquired Brothers Propane
Feb 2022 Acquired Big Ass Tanks
Jan 2022 Acquired Staxmatic

INFOR Financial Group

5 Total Closed Deals

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INFOR Financial Group has a permanent capital base and decades of experience partnering with entrepreneurs at all stages to help facilitate recapitalizations, corporate carve-outs, management buyouts and entrepreneur or family succession. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide creative and flexible capital to our portfolio partners, and believe that part of our role as entrepreneurs supporting entrepreneurs is to partner with and support emerging companies as we help them to achieve their corporate goals.

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Feb 2024 Invested in Nuway Crushing Ltd.
Sep 2021 Invested in Local Line
Sep 2020 Invested in Strella Biotechnology
Oct 2018 Invested in Iconic Brewing Co.

U.S. Industrial Group

4 Total Closed Deals

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At US Industrial Group, we acquire companies within the industrial sector, focusing mainly on manufacturing and distribution, often linked through vertical or horizontal integration. We believe that the success of a company is built on strong relationships—with our customers, employees, and vendors. We prioritize creating a collaborative and supportive environment where employees can thrive, customers receive top-quality products and service, and vendors are treated as trusted partners. Our commitment to fostering these relationships is at the heart of our business strategy.We acquire…

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Oct 2023 Acquired Red Hawk Rifles
Jan 2022 Acquired Prazen Optics, Inc.
Jan 2021 Acquired R.S. Hoytt & Co.
Dec 2019 Acquired Monarch Bearing Co.

Verdo Capital

4 Total Closed Deals

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Verdo was my grandfather. As a son and grandson of small business entrepreneurs, I have lived through the ups and downs of small business my entire life. I know what you are going through as a business owner thinking about how to transition out of your business. Just last year, I was sitting on your side of the table, with my father, selling our family business to a regional competitor.There is a lot of uncertainty, emotion, and challenge to transitioning away from something you have worked so hard on over the years. I am here to ease that transition and partner with you, your team, and…

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May 2018 Acquired Machame Holdings, LLC
Oct 2017 Advised Valore, Inc. in its sale to Follett Higher Education
May 2017 Advised Newman & Holmes, Inc in its sale to Aubuchon Hardware, Inc.
Nov 2016 Advised SimpleTuition, Inc. on an investment from LendingTree, Inc.

Quinsig Capital

4 Total Closed Deals

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Quinsig Capital is a private investment firm focused on small to medium sized acquisitions. We partner with exceptional companies seeking the next stage of growth. Post acquisition, we work closely with our portfolio companies to drive measurable value for all stakeholders.

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Jan 2025 Acquired Cape Cod Plumbing & HVAC Business
Sep 2019 Acquired Diagnostic Testing Platform
Mar 2019 Acquired Healthcare Services Platform
Mar 2018 Acquired IT Services Platform

ReNEW Partners

3 Total Closed Deals

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We aren't your typical private equity or search fund. We use our operational know-how to build businesses for the long term. A Family of enduring businesses working together to provide next-gen services to the industries you've tirelessly served in the past. A Team with a proven track record of successfully scaling and growing businesses for the long term. We Invest in Great Family Owned Businesses That Care What Happens Next. Our mission is to provide the future your company deserves. We understand it's not easy to sell the business you've built. ReNEW Partners can help you to preserve your…

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Jul 2023 Acquired Absolute Machine and Tooling
Apr 2023 Acquired Textile Industrial Welding
May 2020 Acquired Energy Assurance

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Firms in the Retail Distributors Holding Companies directory are ordered based on recent deal activity on Axial. The default order reflects observed market signals rather than a subjective ranking of firm quality.

Each profile provides information about the firm’s areas of focus, transaction criteria, and relevant activity on Axial’s M&A platform. Together, these details provide a clearer view of where a firm is active and the types of companies and opportunities most relevant for it.

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for Retail Distributors Holding Companies is $4M-$19M, with a core EBITDA range of $900K-$4M. Company size can be an important indicator of fit, as firms often concentrate their experience, resources, and transaction activity within particular segments of the market.

Relevant Distribution experience can be an important consideration when evaluating a firm. Familiarity with the sector can provide a stronger understanding of its business models, market dynamics, valuation considerations, and transaction environment. The 211 firms included in this directory provide a starting point for identifying firms with relevant experience and activity in Distribution.

Not necessarily. Many firms are active across multiple industries, so inclusion in the Retail Distributors Holding Companies directory reflects relevant experience or activity in Distribution, rather than an exclusive sector focus. Individual profiles provide additional context on each firm’s areas of focus and activity within the sector.

When comparing Holding Companies with experience in Distribution, consider factors such as size range, geographic reach, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 211 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

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