May 2013

Portfolio Company News: Zoes Kitchen Zoës Kitchen, a Brentwood Associates portfolio company, will open another restaurant  to bring Mediterranean comfort food with a Southern twist to the Main Line, a region of suburban Philadelphia, reports the Main Line Times. “That Mediterranean model, as has been much remarked, is a healthy one to start,” according to the…

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Portfolio Company News: K-Mac and Paper Source Brentwood Associates has received its first dividend from K-Mac Holdings, reports peHUB. Bill Barnum, managing partner at Brentwood Associates, commented: “K-Mac’s debt, after the dividend, is lower than when Brentwood acquired it.”The article further discusses the success of K-Mac, the largest Taco Bell franchisee in the U.S. “One of the reasons…

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Brentwood Associates portfolio company: The Teaching Company In a recent profile with “60 Minutes,” Bill Gates showed his extensive collection of The Great Courses from The Teaching Company, a Brentwood Associates portfolio company. “The more you learn,” Bill Gates said during his interview with 60 Minutes, “the more you have a framework the knowledge fits…

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Dividend recapitalizations of K-Mac and Paper Source Brentwood Associates (“Brentwood”), a consumer-focused private equity investment firm, announced it has completed dividend recapitalizations of two of its portfolio companies, K-Mac Holdings, Corp. (“K-Mac”) and Paper Source, Inc. (“Paper Source”). The K-Mac dividend was financed through excess capacity under the company’s existing $252 million credit facility, and…

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