| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.11.2023 | Lindora & L-Nutra Announce Partnership | Lindora brings L-Nutra’s flagship product, ProLon, to clients as part of their cardiometabolic solutions
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Lindora, Southern California’s leading weight management and metabolic health practice, anno... |
| 13.11.2023 | Fintech Pioneer Anil Arora Joins ClassWallet’s Board of Directors | Former CEO of Yodlee, and Board Member and Advisor to Many High Growth Companies, to Provide His Expertise in Data Analytics, Cloud Platforms and Business Growth and Expansion
MIAMI, Nov. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Anil Arora, a fintech indust... |
| 11.11.2023 | L-Nutra Closes $47 Million in First Stage of Growth Investment Round | Investment furthers company leadership in nutrition technology, aiming to promote healthy living and longevity
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — L-Nutra Inc., premier nutri-technology company, spearheading longevity science nutritio... |
| 08.11.2023 | Brentwood Associates Partners with Far West Services | Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a leading growth-oriented private equity firm, and Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm, have completed a significant growth investment in Far West Services (“Far West” or the “Company”), a fran... |
| 04.11.2023 | Chicken Salad Chick Acquires Piece of Cake | Acquisition launches innovative dessert menu strategy at America’s only fast-casual chicken salad chain
Building upon its commitment to deliver always fresh, made-from-scratch meals, Atlanta-based Chicken Salad Chick announced today its ac... |
| 21.08.2023 | ClassWallet Closes $95 Million Funding Round to Continue Reshaping the Way State and Local Government Agencies Do Business | MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ClassWallet, the leading digital wallet-based purchasing and reimbursement platform for public funds, announced today it closed its first institutional growth capital funding round of $95 million. Guidepost Growth Equi... |
| 21.08.2023 | MedBridge Names Donovan Campbell Chief Executive Officer | Campbell’s experience in digital healthcare and change leadership accelerates the company’s progress toward expanding its digital patient care strategy.
Seattle, Wash. – MedBridge, an industry-leading digital patient engagement and clinici... |
| 23.03.2023 | Quottly Joins Parchment to Transform Student Mobility with Course & Program Sharing, Transfer Articulation, and Dual Enrollment Solutions | SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Today Parchment, the industry leader in academic credentials management, announced the acquisition of Quottly, the leading technology solution for course and program sharing, transfer articul... |
| 21.03.2023 | ClassWallet Announces Significant Minority Growth Partnership with Guidepost Growth Equity | MIAMI, March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — ClassWallet, a leading digital wallet purchasing and reimbursement platform for public funds, today announced it has received a significant minority growth investment from Guidepost Growth Equity. This p... |
| 04.01.2023 | Blaze Pizza Names Beto Guajardo Chief Executive Officer | LOS ANGELES, Calif. (January 4, 2023) — Blaze Pizza, the nation’s leading fast-casual franchise pizza brand, announced today the appointment of Beto Guajardo as its new president and chief executive officer. Guajardo formerly served as pres... |
| 03.08.2022 | Excelligence Learning Corporation Names Anupam Martins as CEO and Announces Appointment to Board of Directors | MONTEREY, Calif., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Excelligence Learning Corporation (“Excelligence”), an industry-leading developer, distributor, and online retailer of innovative, high-quality and grade-appropriate early childhood educational ... |
| 27.06.2022 | L-Nutra Reports on First-of-Its Kind Study Showing That Fasting Nutrition Program Improves Metabolic Control and Slows Diabetic Kidney Disease in Type 2 Diabetes Patients | LOS ANGELES, June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — L-Nutra Inc., the world’s leading nutrition technology company pioneering the discovery, design, and commercialization of novel nutrition programs that impact both the body’s metabolism and cell... |
| 24.05.2022 | Brentwood Associates Partners with Hissho Sushi | Significant growth planned as company seeks to expand its offering of healthy, affordable and sustainably sourced sushi
May 24, 2022 – Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a leading growth-oriented private equity firm, has acquired a majori... |
| 23.05.2022 | Dental AI Startup Wins Second FDA Clearance To Detect Top Oral Diseases | The FDA has awarded dental AI startup Overjet with landmark clearance to use its software to detect and outline cavities in patients’ X-rays.
It’s the second FDA clearance for the company, co-founded in 2018 by CEO Wardah Inam almost a dec... |
| 10.02.2022 | Frog Street Names Lee Ramsayer as CEO | DALLAS, TX., February 9, 2022 – Frog Street, a leading provider of comprehensive early childhood education solutions, has named Lee Ramsayer, formerly EVP Global Sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, as Chief Executive Officer. Ramsayer will ... |
| 29.01.2022 | Pacifica Beauty Receives Strategic Investment from Brentwood Associates, Appoints New CEO | LOS ANGELES (JANUARY 28, 2022) — Pacifica Beauty, the pioneer of 100% vegan, cruelty-free, clean beauty, today announced that it has received a strategic investment from Brentwood Associates, a growth-oriented middle market private equity i... |
| 21.01.2022 | Brentwood Associates Announces Promotions | We are pleased to announce the 2021 promotions of Jon Ang, Ryan Foltz, Chris Reekie, and Toros Yeremyan to Managing Director, Rachel Presser to Principal, and Peter Edelson and Chris Scherer to Vice President. Their talents, contributions a... |
| 04.01.2022 | Brentwood Associates Announces Sale of MD Now Urgent Care | LOS ANGELES, January 4, 2022 Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a Los Angeles-based private equity investment firm, announced it has sold MD Now Urgent Care (“MD Now”) to HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA). The transaction was completed at the end... |
| 30.12.2021 | Franchise Times Ranks the 40 Smartest Growing Brands | Like most restaurant executives, Chicken Salad Chick CEO Scott Deviney pondered the worst when COVID-19 shutdowns first hit in March 2020. “We all stared into the abyss a little bit. It was unheard of,” he said. But its 2019 purchase by Bre... |
| 16.12.2021 | Afterburn Holdings, a Leading Franchisee of Orangetheory® Fitness, Acquires Washington State Area Representative | Brentwood Associates partners with Garnett Station Partners to finance the acquisition and support future growth
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Afterburn Holdings (“Afterburn”), a leading Orangetheory® Fitness franchisee, has expanded into the Pa... |
| 01.12.2021 | Bill Gates and Wondrium to Turn ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster’ Into a Series and Companion Documentary (EXCLUSIVE) |
Bill Gates’ book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” has led to a 10-episode series for educational streamer Wondrium, the company is set to announce on Wednesday. Besides the series, a companion documentary also inspired by the book will b... |
| 27.10.2021 | SMG Receives a Significant Strategic Investment From Brentwood Associates to Accelerate Innovation and Increase Value for Clients | KANSAS CITY, Mo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Service Management Group (SMG), a global customer, patient and employee experience management partner to more than 500 brands, today announced that it has received a significant investment from Brentwood Ass... |
| 13.09.2021 | L-Nutra, Inc. Announces New Leadership in Therapeutics and Consumer Divisions | John L. Brooks III joins L-Nutra as President of Nutritech Therapeutics Division; Manos Spanos joins as President of Consumer Division
PLANO, Texas– (BUSINESS WIRE)–L-Nutra, Inc. is a leading NutriTech company aimed at developing Nutrition... |
| 25.08.2021 | Premier Men’s Underwear Brand SAXX Receives Strategic Investment from TZP Group |
VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SAXX Underwear Co. Ltd. (“SAXX”), the innovative Canadian men’s underwear brand, announced that it has received a strategic investment from TZP Group (“TZP”), a multi-strategy private equity fir... |
| 16.08.2021 | Wondrium, In Collaboration With The 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Presents Long-Form Documentary and Multi-Part Doc Series, Reporting 9/11 and Why It Still Matters and Women Journalists Of 9/11: Their S... | Project inspired by landmark book Covering Catastrophe: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11 from Allison Gilbert and Phil Hirschkorn, to premiere on Wondrium September 1st.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Wondrium is proud to ... |
| 07.07.2021 | Brentwood Associates Announces Growth Investment in L-Nutra | Investment will help fortify L-Nutra’s leadership in nutrition technology and advance the Company’s mission of promoting healthy living and longevity
PLANO, July 8, 2021 — Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a growth-oriented middle market... |
| 17.05.2021 | Brentwood Associates Announces Successful Closing of Opportunities Fund | Brentwood Associates Opportunities Fund, L.P. provides liquidity to existing investors and additional capital commitments to support accelerated growth of the fund’s portfolio companies
LOS ANGELES – Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a L... |
| 03.05.2021 | Brentwood Associates Invests in Watermill Express | May 3, 2021 –Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, announced it has acquired majority control of Watermill Express, LLC (“Watermill Express” or the “Company”), partnering with the co-founders, Lani and... |
| 27.04.2021 | The Teaching Co. Wants Bigger Bite of Streaming With Rebranded ‘Wondrium’ Service |
The Teaching Co. — founded in 1990, well before Netflix or YouTube were a twinkle in anyone’s eye — has sold audio and video learning classes for decades.
Now, as media companies of all sizes rush to embrace streaming, The Teaching Co. i... |
| 27.04.2021 | Leading Educational Streaming Platform, The Great Courses Plus, to Rebrand as Wondrium and Expand Nonfiction Content Offering for The Lifelong Learner | The Teaching Company, the nation’s leading developer and marketer of premium-quality media for lifelong learning and personal enrichment, announced today that it will debut Wondrium early this summer, the next generation of its global strea... |
| 01.04.2021 | Special diets might boost the power of drugs to vanquish cancers | When New York City medical oncologist Vicky Makker meets a patient with endometrial cancer that has spread or recurred, she knows the outlook isn’t good. Even after radiation and drug treatments, most women with advanced disease die within ... |
| 18.03.2021 | Agility, authenticity and a ‘guerilla mindset’ are keys to recovery, says Blaze Pizza CEO | Mandy Shaw shares lessons learned from the pandemic, and advice for how to lean into growth opportunities in 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced Blaze Pizza to rethink its operations and adopt a “guerilla mindset” that will serve it well go... |
| 09.02.2021 | Brentwood Associates Announces Partnership with Davin Cushman to form Brightrose Software | Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”) announces the commitment of up to $100 million of equity capital for the creation of Brightrose Software (“Brightrose”) to acquire and operate successful mid-market and enterprise software businesses. Brig... |
| 02.02.2021 | Texas Education Agency Selects ClassWallet to Manage New Supplementary Special Education Services Program for Families of Students with Cognitive Disabilities Impacted by COVID-19 | The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has selected Miami-based ClassWallet and its FamilyWallet product to manage its new Supplementary Special Education Services (SSES) program for families of students with significant cognitive disabilities an... |
| 26.01.2021 | ClassWallet Expands its Financial Spending Management Platform into School Maintenance and Custodial Market with MaintenanceWallet | Enables K-12 Maintenance Crews and Custodians to Purchase Supplies While Providing School Operations Managers with Complete Oversight via a Streamlined and Paperless Tool.
Financial technology platform provider ClassWallet has expanded its... |
| 20.01.2021 | Upward Projects CEO Lauren Bailey addresses inclusion and supports workers through pandemic | Meet the innovative, inclusive and industry changing leaders of the 2021 NRN Power List.
As CEO and co-founder of Upward Projects and its five concepts, Lauren Bailey has kept her finger on the pulse of the communities where her company op... |
| 13.01.2021 | Brentwood Associates Recapitalizes MedBridge | Significant investment will support continued growth of digital patient and provider engagement solutions and expansion into new healthcare markets
MedBridge, the industry-leading provider of patient engagement and clinical education solut... |
| 07.01.2021 | Frog Street Approved by the Texas Education Agency for Proclamation 2021 Pre-Kindergarten Adoption | The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has approved Frog Street’s next generation of comprehensive curriculum, Frog Street Pre-K 2020, for the Proclamation 2021 Pre-K adoption. In addition to Frog Street Pre-K 2020 meeting 100% of the Texas Pre-K... |
| 17.12.2020 | Brentwood Associates buys a stake in breakfast-focused chain Snooze | Private-equity firm Brentwood Associates has purchased a minority stake in Snooze, a casual-dining breakfast chain based in Denver with 44 restaurants in Arizona, California, Colorado, North Carolina, Missouri and Texas.
Terms of the trans... |
| 17.12.2020 | Snooze Announces Investment from Brentwood Associates | Snooze, a rapidly growing breakfast and brunch restaurant concept known for its innovative menu and vibrant atmosphere, announced it has received a strategic minority investment from Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a leading consumer-fo... |
| 04.12.2020 | Inc.’s 2020 PE 50 -The Best Private Equity Firms for Entrepreneurs | Read the full announcement:
Inc.’s 2020 PE 50 – The Best Private Equity Firms for Entrepreneurs |
| 19.11.2020 | KeyMe Locksmiths Ranked Number 78 Fastest-Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500 | KeyMe Locksmiths today announced it ranked 78 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America, now in its 26th year. Ke... |
| 02.11.2020 | Hims & Hers Announces Q3 Update | Hims & Hers, a multi-specialty telehealth platform that connects consumers to licensed healthcare professionals, today announced robust Q3 2020 results.
“The continued momentum we saw in Q3 2020 is a clear indicator that our consumer-f... |
| 02.11.2020 | Inc.’s 2020 PE 50 The Best Private Equity Firms for Entrepreneurs | Explore our annual list of founder-friendly private equity firms.
Read the full announcement:
Inc.’s 2020 PE 50 The Best Private Equity Firms for Entrepreneurs |
| 28.10.2020 | KeyMe Announces Rebranding, Changes Name to KeyMe Locksmiths
| Greg Marsh, founder and CEO of KeyMe Locksmiths, announced today that the company has completed a corporate rebranding as it builds the most trusted consumer reputation in the $12 billion per year locksmith industry. KeyMe Locksmiths, has u... |
| 20.10.2020 | ClassWallet to Distribute ‘Strong Families, Strong Students Initiative’ Funds in Idaho to Low-Income Families for Remote Learning Expenses During COVID-19 | ClassWallet has been awarded a contract from the State of Idaho and the Idaho State Board of Education to help distribute close to $50 million in funds for its ‘Strong Families, Strong Students Initiative’ to families for their remote learn... |
| 01.10.2020 | Hims & Hers, a Multi-Specialty Telehealth Platform, to Become Publicly-Traded via Merger with Oaktree Acquisition Corp. | Hims, Inc. (“Hims & Hers” or the “Company”), a market leading telehealth company, and Oaktree Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: OAC.U, OAC, OAC WS), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Oaktree Capital Management, L... |
| 25.09.2020 | Frog Street Offers Extensive “At-Home Learning” Resources to Help Children Stay Engaged in New Hybrid Learning Environments | Frog Street, a leading provider of comprehensive early childhood education solutions, has launched multiple new platforms and resources to help early childhood educators and parents navigate the new hybrid at-home learning scenarios for chi... |
| 03.09.2020 | A&M strikes a deal with Frog Street to commercialize innovations out of the College of Education and Human Development | Center for Research & Development in Dual Language & Literacy Acquisition in the College of Education and Human Development makes their elementary dual-language curriculum available to classrooms across the country through a licensi... |
| 10.08.2020 | ClassWallet Awarded Contract by State of Oklahoma to Distribute Federal Funds Supporting Private School Tuition and Educational Needs of Low-Income Families During COVID-19 | ClassWallet has been awarded a contract from the office of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt to implement its innovative fintech platform to help distribute $18 million in federal funds to support the private school tuition and educational reso... |
| 21.07.2020 | ClassWallet to Provide Spending Management Platform for Teachers Under Five-Year Contract from Utah State Board of Education | ClassWallet has been awarded a five-year contract from the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) to implement its innovative spending management platform for local teachers and their school districts.
The ClassWallet financial technology pl... |
| 20.07.2020 | Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Partner with Company Hims & Hers on Accessible Healthcare | “We remember what it was to grow up not being able to afford decent care,” says Jennifer Lopez.
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez’s star power might be astronomical, but the two will never forget their humble beginnings growing up in the B... |
| 24.06.2020 | Blaze Pizza Rises to the Pandemic Challenge | A myriad of concerns swirled through the minds of operators nationwide when COVID-19 was thrust upon their shoulders in March.
Blaze Pizza CEO Mandy Shaw says the keyword for her brand was agility.
The first item on the list was making su... |
| 13.05.2020 | Your Best Innovators Right Now Could Be Your Franchisees | Booming before the pandemic, one brand is looking to its franchisee network for survival tactics—and it’s working
Chicken Salad Chick has started taking preorders for its Quick Chick grab-and-go options, which it then delivers to designate... |
| 13.03.2020 | Jefferson Dental & Orthodontics Strengthens Executive Management Team | Jefferson Dental & Orthodontics, a leading dental service organization, has strengthened several key executive positions as it continues its regional expansion. Mick McCormick, who has been working with the company since June of 2019 on... |
| 11.03.2020 | Chicken Salad Chick Captures Franchise Times Deal of Year Award | Chicken Salad Chick’s attraction of a much-larger majority investor, Brentwood Associates with its $2.4 billion fund, captured the Franchise Times Deal of the Year award today at the Franchise Investment Conference, and CEO Scott Deviney in... |
| 02.03.2020 | And the winners are…Chain Store Age’s 2020 Breakout Retailers Awards | Chain Store Age is proud to announce the winners of its Breakout Retailers Awards of 2020.
The annual awards, selected by the editorial board of Chain Store Age, honor retail, restaurant and specialty concepts that are innovative in their ... |
| 21.02.2020 | What’s behind Chicken Salad Chick’s continued success? | For an industry perennially obsessed with what’s new and hot and high-tech, it may be hard to grasp the sustained success of a fast-casual chain whose menu focuses on a humble dish favored by moms everywhere for Fourth of July picnics.
But... |
| 11.02.2020 | Credentials Solutions and Parchment Complete Merger | Credentials Solutions, a leading higher education transcript service provider, and Parchment, a leading multi-faceted platform for issuing and receiving academic and professional credentials, announced today the closing of their merger. The... |
| 11.02.2020 | Brentwood Associates Completes Acquisition of Parchment | Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a middle market private equity investment firm, is pleased to announce that it has acquired Parchment Inc. (“Parchment”). Parchment is a digital credential service allowing learners, academic institutions... |
| 23.01.2020 | Hims & Hers is bringing its health products to all 50 states | Hims & Hers—the telehealth startup that prescribes and sells antidepressants, hair-growth formulas, anti-aging retinoids, birth control, sex drive boosters, and supplements—is launching in all 50 states and will now be able to conduct p... |
| 14.01.2020 | KeyMe Plans To Use New $35 Million Funding Round To Build 10,000+ Retail Locations | Shortly after Greg Marsh moved to New York City to pursue an MBA at Columbia Business School, his then-girlfriend, now-wife experienced a city dweller’s nightmare: She got locked out of her apartment. “She had a horrible experience,” Marsh ... |
| 13.01.2020 | Hims is a winner of FierceHealthcare’s Fierce 15 awards | When Hims launched two years ago, it was well-known among New York City subway riders for its cheeky ads selling erectile dysfunction medication.
The company, which combines telehealth and medication delivery, started with four products an... |
| 13.12.2019 | Veggie Grill Makes its NYC Debut | Veggie Grill opened its first New York City location Thursday at 12 W. 23rd St in the Flatiron District. As Veggie Grill’s 37th location, this marks the company’s entrance into the New York market and continued expansion on the East Coast. ... |
| 04.11.2019 | Eagle Merchant Partners Sells Chicken Salad Chick to Brentwood Associates
| Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a consumer-focused private equity firm, announced it has acquired a majority interest in SSRG Holdings, LLC (“Chicken Salad Chick” or the “Company”) from Eagle Merchant Partners. Terms of the deal are con... |
| 25.10.2019 | Postino’s New Broadway Outpost Will Serve Wine Under A Psychedelic Glass Fixture
| The Arizona-based Upward Projects restaurant group makes a point of opening each new location of its Postino Wine Cafe chain inside a historic urban space. But Upward Projects has never previously opened a Postino in a building as old as th... |
| 17.10.2019 | Brentwood Associates Announces Sale of Marshall Retail Group | Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a consumer-focused private equity investment firm, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell The Marshall Retail Group, LLC (“MRG”), to an affiliate of WH Smith PLC (“WH Smith”). MRG is... |
| 16.10.2019 | Best Online Shops 2020 | The attractions of online shopping draw hundreds of millions Americans to the web every year. You can compare prices, read reviews, avoid crowds and checkout lines, track down hard-to-find items—and do it 24/7 without leaving your house (or... |
| 07.10.2019 | Steve Spangler on FOX & Friends | Steve Spangler Science® is a leading brand of Excelligence. Click on the links below to view a few of his science projects on Fox & Friends!
Making science a blast on the Fox Square!
Classic science experiments get a twist on ‘Fox &am... |
| 01.10.2019 | Brick, Mortar And Pestle: Telemedicine Website Hims Will Open Its First Mail-Order Pharmacy In 2020 | Hims, Inc., the telemedicine startup building its brand on tongue-in-cheek marketing and FDA-approved medications that treat skin, hair loss and erectile dysfunction discreetly by mail, is set to open its first brick-and-mortar pharmacy nex... |
| 19.09.2019 | Keeping History Alive at Montrose’s Postino | Upon walking into the new Postino at 805 Pacific St. in Montrose, you may think, “Well, it’s a Postino.” Its sign is the same, and there’s a substantial patio that’ll surely be full of folks sipping and noshing during happy hours, weekend a... |
| 16.09.2019 | New Montrose Wine Bar Takes Over Gay Landmark, Embraces the Neighborhood’s History | If the wildly successful pre-opening parties are any indication, Postino WineCafé in Montrose is poised to rock the neighborhood in similar tradition as its predecessors rocked convention during 36 years of a singularly gay focus. Where the... |
| 05.09.2019 | Jefferson Dental and The Dallas Mavericks Announce New Partnership | Jefferson Dental, one of Dallas’ largest dental providers, is now The Official Dentist of The Dallas Mavericks. For over 50 years, Jefferson Dental has served the Dallas/Fort Worth communities with a compassionate, patient-first focus.
Bot... |
| 05.09.2019 | Hims and Hers’ Hilary Coles: ‘We are defining our own category’ | In two short years, direct-to-consumer company Hims launched a sister brand Hers, raised nearly $200 million in funding and became one of few digital-only unicorns. And it all started with taking medicines like finasteride and sildenafil (b... |
| 30.08.2019 | Marshall Retail Group launches wellness concept store at Sacramento International Airport | Marshall Retail Group (MRG) has launched new wellness and sustainability concept The Well in Terminal A at Sacramento International Airport (SMF).
The 325sq m space combines environmentally friendly products and distinctive gifts from Nort... |
| 29.08.2019 | A Fast-Growing Beer Club Is Boosting Lazy Dog’s Sales | The backstory: Lazy Dog’s founder and CEO Chris Simms started the concept 16 years ago in Huntington Beach, Calif., with the goal of creating the “next generation of casual dining,” focusing on housemade, craveable dishes and a culture of r... |
| 27.08.2019 | LeBron James–backed pizza chain is America’s favorite: survey | Pizza may have originated in Italy, but ever since it entered the U.S. market, Americans can’t get enough. But which fast-food pizza joint is the best, according to Americans?
Market Force Information, a customer experience management comp... |
| 29.07.2019 | Frog Street and Beijing Oriental Star Children Technology Launch a Partnership to Provide Early Childhood Curriculum in China | Frog Street, a provider of early childhood curriculum and subsidiary of Excelligence Learning Corporation, and Beijing Oriental Star Children Technology Company, a provider of academic and social development education, have launched a partn... |
| 09.07.2019 | Welcome Pat Carroll — Hims & Hers’ New Chief Medical Officer | We’re excited to announce that Dr. Pat Carroll has joined Hims & Hers as its first Chief Medical Officer. Below is a blog post he authored describing a little about his story, why he joined our company and the bright future ahead.
Putt... |
| 27.06.2019 | The 50 Best Private Equity Firms for Entrepreneurs | Private equity firms have been called all kinds of nasty names over the years: asset strippers, corporate raiders, vulture capitalists. Don’t be deterred by these labels. The PE firms making headlines over high profile corporate bankruptcie... |
| 26.06.2019 | These Founders Wanted to Create the ‘Chipotle of Pizza.’ Now, Their LeBron James-Backed Business Is Aiming for an IPO | LeBron James, the Boston Red Sox, mall pretzels: These are crucial ingredients in Blaze Pizza’s ambitious recipe for growth.
Serial entrepreneurs and spouses Elise and Rick Wetzel co-founded their Pasadena, California-based company in 2011... |
| 05.06.2019 | New Men’s Underwear, Briefly | Here’s a news flash: Guys don’t like shopping for underwear. Luckily, the same retail forces that disrupted razors, eyeglasses, luggage, mattresses and hair-loss treatments, have set their sights on men’s drawers. In the last decade, a hand... |
| 22.05.2019 | Excelligence Learning Corporation Announces Opening Of Its State-Of-The-Art Fulfillment Center | Excelligence Learning Corporation announces the official opening of its Kansas fulfillment center located in the heart of Kansas’ intermodal center: Gardner, Kansas. After conducting a national search for centralization of its fulfillment a... |
| 03.05.2019 | With A Name Like Lazy Dog, Why Exactly Is This Restaurant Chain Thriving? | Why exactly would restaurateur Chris Simms call his casual dining restaurant, specializing in what he calls “elevated comfort food,” Lazy Dog?
Asked why, Simms replied that he wanted to create an environment where guests “could leave every... |
| 05.04.2019 | Veggie Grill Expanding Despite The Scarcity Of People Who Are Vegetarians and Vegans | A Gallup poll taken in August 2018 reported that only 5% of Americans considered themselves vegetarians and only 3% vegans. Yet millennials aged 18-29 are slightly higher with 7% vegetarians.
But Veggie Grill, a chain of veggie-centric and... |
| 27.02.2019 | And the winners are: Chain Store Age’s 2019 Breakout Retailers Awards | Chain Store Age is proud to announce the winners of its Breakout Retailers Awards of 2019.
The annual awards, selected by the editorial board of Chain Store Age, honor retail, restaurant and specialty concepts that are innovative and have ... |
| 07.02.2019 | Wpromote Announces First-Ever Private Equity Case Study with Facebook | Wpromote, the nation’s leading independent digital marketing agency, announced the launch of the first-ever Facebook case study focused for the private equity industry. The case study demonstrates the success that Brentwood Associates, an L... |
| 25.01.2019 | The Power List 2019: Lauren Bailey | Lauren Bailey, CEO and co-founder, Upward Projects
Known for: Upward Projects is a Phoenix-based hospitality group with strong ties to the communities its restaurants are located in. Each unit has been built in an historically and architec... |
| 23.01.2019 | Frog Street Launches New Early Childhood Assessment Portfolio Solution And Partners with Discount School Supply for Free School Supplies | This breakthrough solution for the early childhood industry includes the AIM Birth to Five Observational Assessment and the AIM Pre-K Criterion-Reference Assessment. The AIM Assessment Portfolio provides valid assessment content that can be... |
| 11.01.2019 | Brentwood Associates Announces Investment in Afterburn Holdings | Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a leading middle-market private equity investment firm, announced it has acquired a majority interest in Afterburn Holdings, LLC (“Afterburn Holdings” or the “Company”). Afterburn Holdings is a leading Or... |
| 08.01.2019 | How Blaze Ignited a Pizza Revolution | The lunch rush should be over at the contemporary fast casual on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, and yet the place is buzzing. A queue of customers slowly marches its way down a make line while employees flutter around to the cl... |
| 07.01.2019 | Blaze Pizza tops this year’s Fast & Serious list, our annual ranking of the 40 smartest-growing | The 300-location mark is a pretty big deal in franchising; it’s a milestone that few concepts ever reach. Just 108 franchised brands have grown beyond the 300 mark. It was a nice milestone at Blaze, but when the company ticked over 300 in N... |
| 07.12.2018 | Marshall Retail Group opens speciality stores at New York LaGuardia and Los Angeles airports | Marshall Retail Group (MRG), the largest independent speciality retailer in the US airport, casino and resort market, has opened new stores at New York LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B, and at Los Angeles International Airport Terminal 1.... |
| 01.11.2018 | Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza Turns Six and Opens 300th Restaurant | Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza, the recognized world leader in fast artisanal pizza, today announced that it has opened its 300th restaurant — just two months after celebrating its sixth birthday. Founded with two locations in 2012, Blaze Pizza ha... |
| 16.10.2018 | LeBron James on Blaze Pizza and how it’s the key to understanding his own brand strategy | Back in the old days, most pro athletes would sign almost any and every endorsement deal available. Hold the product, smile, cash the check.
Those days weren’t all that long ago (and still not completely gone), but LeBron James says his re... |
| 13.10.2018 | Las Vegas company spreading its wings in airport, resort retail | Gift stores with Las Vegas-branded cups and shot glasses. Candy stores with jelly beans and chocolate wasabi peas. America-themed stores with T-shirts of the president atop a tank with a gun barrel bearing the inscription, “You’re fired.”
... |
| 03.10.2018 | Rob Reger Named President of Wiland, Inc. Cooperative Database Division | Wiland, Inc., a provider of intelligence-driven predictive marketing solutions, today announced that Rob Reger has been named President of the company’s Cooperative Database Division. He had previously served as Senior Vice President, Solut... |
| 02.08.2018 | Brentwood Associates Acquires MD Now Urgent Care | Founded in 2005, MD Now Urgent Care is the largest independent urgent care provider in Florida and offers a broad range of high quality medical care, including urgent care services, diagnostics and testing, occupational medicine, and physic... |
| 01.08.2018 | Excelligence Learning Corporation Acquires LifeCubby | MONTEREY, Calif., Aug. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Excelligence Learning Corporation, a leader in the childhood education industry, announced its acquisition of LifeCubby, the recognized leader in early childhood education childcare center manag... |
| 30.07.2018 | How Sundance Brings Its DM Catalog To Life In Physical Retail | Founded in 1989 as a direct-mail catalog marketer, Robert Redford’s Sundance Catalog of western-inspired and artisan-crafted jewelry, apparel, shoes, fashion accessories and home décor is rapidly expanding its footprint – or should I say “b... |
