Private equity firm Bunker Hill Capital has added Kingpin Tattoo Supply (Kingpin) to its portfolio company Nexus Brands Group. Kingpin, based in St Petersburg, Florida, is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of tattoo supplies.
Kingpin joins TATSoul, a leading premium brand supplier of furniture, equipment and consumable supplies to the tattoo industry, to solidify the Company’s leading market position and create the largest family of branded full service tattoo supply manufacturing and distribution companies in North America.
Brian Kinsman, Managing Partner at Bunker Hill Capital, says: "Kingpin and TATSoul are two like-minded companies that care deeply about their ongoing commitments to the professional tattoo artist community; providing artists with the highest quality furniture, equipment and consumable supplies along with the most highly regarded customer service that the industry has to offer."
Dave Mayer, founder, CEO and President of Kingpin has spent the last twenty years building the Kingpin brand into an industry standard for professional tattoo artists.
"I have always been impressed with TATSoul's commitment to product quality, innovation and ongoing artist support. I feel that this partnership has been twenty years in the making and I am looking forward to Kingpin and TATSoul continuing to be the industry's innovative leader and voice of the professional artist," says Mayer.
