Strategic Partners, Inc.

Strategic Partners, Inc., headquartered in Chatsworth, California, is a leading designer, manufacturer, and distributor of medical uniforms for the specialty retail and mass merchant channels. The business has a history of design innovation and excellent customer service. Strategic designs, manufactures, and sells its products to independent and chain retailers of uniforms, mass merchants, and through catalog and Internet retailers. Strategic's brands include Baby Phat, Cherokee, H.Q., Med•Man, Rockers, Classroom, Cherokee Workwear, Cherokee Studio, Team Scrubs, and Tooniforms. With over 50 license agreements, Strategic is the industry’s largest licensee. In April 2006, Sentinel Capital Partners and management invested in Strategic in a recapitalization transaction. Sentinel originated, sponsored and negotiated the transaction, and provided private equity financing from Sentinel Capital Partners III, L.P. In August 2010, after achieving substantially all of its investment objectives, Sentinel sold Strategic Partners in a management buyout transaction. Since Sentinel's original investment, Strategic Partners' profitability has more than doubled. Today Strategic Partners has a national leadership position and is well positioned to continue growing.