Clearlake Capital Group is to sell Proven Brands and KTB Foods to The Hain Celestial Group (Hain Celestial) for approximately USD259 million.  The sale includes the flagship ParmCrisps and Thinsters brands out of Clearlake’s Better For You Holdings food platform, which sponsors leading providers of high quality, branded, better-for-you snacks

Olsam Group (Olsam) has completed the acquisition of the assets of Flywheel Commerce, a US-based e-commerce aggregator.  The acquisition will help Olsam, which recently raised USD165 million, further extend its footprint globally, in particular across North America. Following completion, the brands of Flywheel Commerce will continue to operate in the

GlacierPoint Enterprises, (GlacierPoint), a portfolio company of Mill Point Capital (Mill Point) and parent company of E&M Logistics (E&M) has acquired Jack & Jill, a family-owned direct store delivery (DSD) distributor of Unilever and Nestle ice cream, as well as other food and beverages in the Mid-Atlantic region. Ken Schwartz,

CGI Automated Manufacturing (CGI), a portfolio company of Chicago-based private equity firm CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), has acquired Precision Metal Fab and Precision Tool & Die (collectively, PMF) a provider of metal cutting and forming solutions.  Financial terms of the deals, which follow CORE’s acquisition of CGI in August and

Citizens M&A Advisory has served as the exclusive financial advisor to Hire Dynamics, a provider of light industrial workforce solutions, on its acquisition by EmployBridge. Hire Dynamics was a portfolio company of MSouth Equity Partners, an Atlanta-based middle-market private equity firm. EmployBridge is majority-owned by certain investment funds managed directly

Middle market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has acquired the thermal coating business assets of Appvion Holding Corp and its subsidiaries (Appvion). Founded in 1907 and headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, Appvion is a leading provider of specialty and high-performance direct thermal coatings for label and film solutions as well as

Arrow Capital Partners, an investor and operator of real estate in Europe and Asia-Pacific, has acquired two multi-let light industrial assets in separate transactions in the Netherlands for a total of approximately EUR11 million. Both assets were acquired for Arrow’s Cerberus-backed pan-European Strategic Industrial Real Estate (SIRE) joint venture.

Affiliates of Dallas-based private equity manager Paceline Equity Partners have acquired two limited-service hotels in Orlando, Florida, the Fairfield Inn & Suites and the Residence Inn.  Both hotels are located near the renowned theme parks Universal Orlando, ICON Park, SeaWorld Orlando as well as the Orange County Convention Center and