LongueVue Capital Seeking New Consumer Opportunities With Dedicated Operating Partner

Following successful investments across the consumer sector, LongueVue Capital (“LVC”), together with its Consumer Operating Partner, Chris Homeister, is actively seeking new consumer platform investments.

Chris serves on the TileBar board and brings 30 years of senior leadership experience across retail merchandising, product development, operating excellence, global sourcing, vendor management, creation of strategic alliances, financial management, and acquisition integration. Chris brings unrivaled expertise and extensive industry contacts to support both LVC’s sourcing and execution efforts, while also providing strategic guidance to our portfolio companies post-closing as a proactive board member.

LONGUEVUE CAPITAL SEEKING CONSUMER OPPORTUNITIES

FINANCIAL PROFILE:

  • $10M or Greater in Revenue
  • Cash Flow Positive

AREAS OF FOCUS:

  • Baby Products & Services
  • Consumer Services
  • Consumer Tech
  • E-commerce
  • Fitness & Outdoor
  • Health & Wellness
  • Home Improvement
  • Home Office
  • Household
  • Lifestyle
  • Pet & Pet Services
  • Pool Services
  • Recreation
  • Specialty Interiors
  • Sporting Goods

TILEBAR CASE STUDY

In 2019, LVC partnered with TileBar’s Founder, Eli Mechlovitz, to support TileBar’s next phase of growth as a leading branded provider of high quality tile and hard surfaces that is disrupting a fragmented industry with a high degree of innovation, sophistication, and customer service. LVC has helped fuel TileBar’s rapid growth by providing both human and financial capital to invest in systems and infrastructure, develop new channels, products, and end markets, add new showroom and warehouse locations, and build out an industry leading management team.

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INDUSTRY TRENDS

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RELATED INVESTING AND OPERATING EXPERIENCE

LVC’s investment and operating team have significant experience within the consumer space, including investments in or operating roles with:

LVC CONSUMER INVESTMENTS

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EXECUTIVE OR OPERATING ROLES

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To learn more about LongueVue Capital, please visit our website at www.lvcpartners.com or contact Ryan Nagim, Partner, at rnagim@lvcpartners.com, Evan Golden, Vice President, at egolden@lvcpartners.com, or call 504.293.3600.

About LongueVue Capital

Founded in 2001, LongueVue Capital is a New Orleans-based private equity firm that focuses on providing human capital, financial capital, and a skill set built upon a successful 20+ year track record of partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams to drive value creation in middle market companies. Having managed over $1 billion of capital spanning four funds coupled with 150 years of combined operating and investing experience, our team is the ideal partner for middle market companies at inflection points and seeking to maximize value.

Our opportunistic investment strategy provides the flexibility to partner with attractive businesses across a variety of industries and situations, and we tailor transaction structures to meet the company and stakeholders’ objectives. While we are selective with our investment strategy, we target growth-oriented companies with scalable, sustainable business models and exceptional leadership teams.

Our proactive, hands-on approach enables us to be thoughtful stewards of our portfolio companies and trusted and dependable strategic partners to all stakeholders. Together with our entrepreneur and management team partners, we help create superior value for our portfolio companies and investors.