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September 26, 2023
Advancing Eco Agriculture Launches Crowdfunding Round
Middlefield, Ohio-based Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA) has launched a community fundraising campaign on Wefunder. This allows the public to invest in the company's growth and future development....
By Dealmakers Staff
September 22, 2023
Sila Services Continues Expanding Midwest Presence with Acquisitions
Sila Services, LLC recently acquired two leading Midwest HVAC services companies. Cleveland Air Comfort Corporation, and Carlson Heating, Cooling & Electric Company, based in Glenview, IL. strategic...
By Dan Pender
September 22, 2023
IBT Apps Announces Acquisition of PowerLender to Enhance Loan Origination Solutions
IBT Apps, a provider of adaptable core and digital banking software, announced its recent acquisition of PowerLender, a distinguished Loan Origination System, previously owned by ASC Inc. This...
By Dan Pender
September 22, 2023
The J. M. Smucker Co. to Acquire Hostess Brands
The J. M. Smucker Co. announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Hostess Brands, Inc. for $34.25 per share in a cash and stock transaction, representing a total enterprise value of...
By Dan Pender
September 22, 2023
HighGround Welcomes Allphase Restoration to Its Expanding Family of Water Damage Restoration Brands
HighGround Restoration Group, INC., a national water mitigation and restoration company, and a portfolio business of Trivest Partners LP, announced the addition of Allphase Roofing & Restoration to...
By Dan Pender
September 22, 2023
HighGround Welcomes Allphase Restoration to Its Expanding Family of Water Damage Restoration Brands
HighGround Restoration Group, INC., a national water mitigation and restoration company, and a portfolio business of Trivest Partners LP, announced the addition of Allphase Roofing & Restoration to...
By Dan Pender
September 22, 2023
Marussia Beverages Acquires Wathershed Distillery
Marussia Beverages, a producer and distributor of beverages headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland announced the acquisition of Watershed Distillery. Marussia offers products like vodka, brandy, gin,...
By Dan Pender
September 22, 2023
Wealth Enhancement Group Joins Forces with Integra Capital Advisors
Wealth Enhancement Group, an independent wealth management firm, announced the acquisition of Integra Capital Advisors, an independent RIA with two locations in Florida. Integra Capital Advisors' team...
By Dan Pender
September 8, 2023
Theken Companies Acquires VisionAir Solutions
Theken Companies, an Akron, Ohio-based family of medical device companies, announced its acquisition of VisionAir Solutions from Cleveland Clinic. VisionAir Solutions creates patient-specific airway...
By Dan Pender
September 8, 2023
Care Bears Owner, Cloudco, Sold to IVEST Consumer Partners
Cloudco Entertainment, owner of heritage and newer intellectual properties, including The Care Bears, Holly Hobbie, Tinpo, Buddy Thunderstruck, Madballs, Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese, has been...
By Dan Pender
September 8, 2023
Worth Valuation Services, Inc. Acquires Appraisal Services Company
Worth Valuation Services, a newly formed independent entity, has acquired the valuation services division of Dwellworks LLC. Worth will continue to provide lender and relocation appraisal services...
By Dan Pender
September 8, 2023
Enbridge Announces Strategic Acquisition of Three U.S. Based Utilities
Enbridge Inc. announced it has entered into three separate definitive agreements with Dominion Energy, Inc. to acquire EOG, Questar and PSNC for an aggregate purchase price of US$14.0 billion,...
By Dan Pender
September 8, 2023
IBT Apps Announces Acquisition of PowerLender
IBT Apps, a provider of adaptable core and digital banking software, announced its acquisition of PowerLender, a Loan Origination System, previously owned by ASC Inc. This strategic move expands IBT...
By Dan Pender
September 1, 2023
Xylem To Acquire Evoqua in $7.5 Billion All-Stock Transaction
Xylem Inc., a global water technology company, and Evoqu, a mission-critical water treatment solutions and services company, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Xylem...
By Dan Pender
September 1, 2023
OCLI Vision Acquires Crossroads Eye Care Associates
Spectrum Vision Partners announced the acquisition of Crossroads Eye Care Associates to continue to build the AIO|OCLI Vision presence in Pittsburgh. Crossroads Eye Care Associates is dedicated to...
By Dan Pender
September 1, 2023
Arconic Shareholders Approve Acquisition by Apollo Funds
Arconic Corporation announced its shareholders have voted at a special meeting of Arconic shareholders to approve the Company's pending acquisition by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo including a...
By Dan Pender
September 1, 2023
USW Responds to U.S. Steel Plans to Review Sale Options
The United Steelworkers union (USW), which represents more than 11,000 hourly workers at U.S. Steel facilities across the United States, recently released the following statement: "The USW has been in...
By Dan Pender
September 1, 2023
NexTier, Inc. and Mars Bancorp, Inc. Announce Merger
NexTier, Inc., the holding company of NexTier Bank, N.A., and Mars Bancorp, Inc., the holding company of Mars Bank, jointly announced the parties have entered into a definitive agreement for NexTier...
By Dan Pender
September 1, 2023
EQT Completes Acquisition of Tug Hill and XcL Midstream
EQT Corporation announced it has closed its previously announced acquisition of THQ Appalachia I Midco, and THQ-XcL Holdings I Midco, LLC. Final consideration after purchase price adjustments was...
By Dan Pender
September 1, 2023
Carmell Announces Successful Closing of Merger with Axolotl Biologix and Launch of a New Brand Identity
Carmell Corporation, a regenerative care company announced the successful closing of the previously announced merger with Flagstaff-based Axolotl Biologix, a profitable regenerative medicine company...
By Dan Pender
August 25, 2023
Flying Colours Joins the Flexjet Family of Companies
Flexjet Inc., a private aviation company, announced Flying Colours Corp., an aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) company, is joining the Flexjet family of companies. This further expands...
By Dan Pender
August 25, 2023
Theken Companies Acquires VisionAir Solutions
Theken Companies, an Akron, Ohio-based family of medical device companies, announced its acquisition of VisionAir Solutions from Cleveland Clinic. VisionAir Solutions creates patient-specific airway...
By Dan Pender
August 18, 2023
National Church Residences Acquires At Your Door Visiting Healthcare Services
National Church Residences announces a new partnership with the acquisition of At Your Door Visiting Healthcare Services. At Your Door provides primary care, in-home medical services to residents at...
By Dan Pender
August 18, 2023
Battelle and Chugach Dynamic Solutions Form Joint Venture
Battelle announced it will join Chugach Dynamic Solutions, LLC an Alaska Native Corporation, in a mentor-protégé venture drawing on the strengths of both organizations to provide superior support to...
By Dan Pender
August 18, 2023
CPC Announces Acquisition of Trades Holding Company
CPC, LLC announced it has completed the acquisition of Trades Holding Company, LLC, headquartered in Columbus. Trades is a franchisee of Mr. Rooter and Mr. Electric and operates Right Restoration...
By Dan Pender
August 18, 2023
Cordance Acquires Industrial CRM Provider WebPresented
Cordance, a software company that acquires and accelerates the growth of vertically-focused, B2B SaaS companies, expands its presence in the wholesale distribution industry with the strategic...
By Dan Pender
August 10, 2023
Platinum Equity Sells Stake In Vertiv
The 5.3% stake was sold August 9 at a price of $34.91 per share, yielding $698.2 million for Platinum Equity....
By Michael Marzec
August 8, 2023
Penhall Buys Mid-Ohio Concrete
The purchase will help Penhall expand its services and reach more customers in Central Ohio and surrounding markets....
By Michael Marzec
August 7, 2023
Equity Trust Acquires Midland Trust
Equity Trust Company, a leading custodian of self-directed IRAs, has acquired Midland Trust, a highly respected self-directed IRA company based in Fort Myers, Fla. ...
By Adam Burroughs
August 4, 2023
Carmell Therapeutics Merges With Axolotl Biologix
Alpha Healthcare Acquisition Corp. III, a special purpose acquisition company led by Mr. Rajiv Shukla, today announced the successful completion of its business combination (the “Business...
By Dan Pender
August 4, 2023
Nornickel sells U.S.-based metals distributor in an all-cash transaction
Norilsk Nickel USA, Inc., Nornickel’s exclusive distribution company for nickel, platinum group metals, and cobalt in the Americas, has been acquired in an all-cash transaction by TMP Metals Group,...
By Dan Pender
August 3, 2023
Cordance buys Columbus-based WebPresented
The deal will allow Cordance to integrate WebPresented's interactive video and virtual event capabilities into its suite of business software products....
By Michael Marzec
August 3, 2023
REPORT: Shearer’s Foods Explore Potential $3B Sale
Shearer’s Foods, a snack maker backed by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, is exploring a sale that could fetch about $3 billion including debt, according to Bloomberg reporting....
By Adam Burroughs
August 3, 2023
Platinum Equity Completes Acquisition Of HC Companies
Platinum Equity has acquired The HC Companies, a leading North American manufacturer of horticultural containers, has been completed. Financial terms were not disclosed....
By Adam Burroughs
August 3, 2023
Enspire DBS Therapy Gets $17.6M Series B
Enspire DBS Therapy, Inc., a clinical stage company developing an implantable neuromodulation therapy for post-stroke recovery, has raised $17.6 million of committed capital in a Series B financing led by existing investor, Cleveland Clinic....
By Adam Burroughs
August 2, 2023
Bonzo Acquired By Mobility Market Intelligence
The acquisition will allow MMI to expand its suite of mortgage technology products at a time when demand for digital solutions in the home lending market is rising....
By Michael Marzec
July 28, 2023
Zentro's Growth Continues with the Acquisition of Snip Internet
Zentro, the Midwest's fastest growing internet service provider (ISP), announced it acquired Ohio-based Snip Internet. The combined business now represents the largest independent MDU-focused ISP in...
By Dan Pender
July 28, 2023
Sequoia Financial Group to Acquire Cleveland-based Cirrus Wealth Management
Sequoia Financial Group, LLC, a SEC-registered wealth manager with nearly $16 billion in assets under management, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cirrus Wealth Management, an...
By Dan Pender
July 28, 2023
ATI Adds Roth Construction to its Portfolio of Companies
ATI Restoration, LLC, America’s largest family-operated restoration contractor and a national leader in restoration, environmental remediation, and reconstruction services, announced it has acquired...
By Dan Pender
July 26, 2023
DASI Simulations raises $2.95 million in capital
The medical technology company uses advanced computational modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning improve the safety of care for structural heart disease patients....
By Michael Marzec
July 14, 2023
Battelle will join Chugach Dynamic Solutions, LLC
Battelle it will join Chugach Dynamic Solutions, LLC, an Alaska Native Corporation, in a mentor-protégé venture drawing on the strengths of both organizations to provide superior support to federal...
By Dan Pender
July 14, 2023
Epcon Communities Adds 22 New Franchise Builders in 2021
Epcon Communities announced the addition of 22 new Franchise Home Builders in 2022. These new Franchise Builders will build their first Epcon communities in 14 states. The new Epcon Franchise Builders...
By Dan Pender
July 7, 2023
Apple Growth Partners Expands Chicago Presence
Apple Growth Partners, an accounting and business advisory firm with offices in Ohio, Illinois, and North Carolina, merged in Burton Partners LLC, a CPA firm in Schaumburg, Illinois effective July 1....
By Dan Pender
July 7, 2023
Blue Point-Backed Weaver Leather Partners with Dog Products Brand Rex Specs
Blue Point Capital Partners and its portfolio company, Weaver Leather, announced the acquisition of Rex Specs, a premium brand of outdoor products for active and working canines. This investment marks...
By Dan Pender
July 7, 2023
Tim Lamb Group Brokers Sale of Dealerships To Victory Automotive
Blair Sharpe, Director of the North Central Region for the Tim Lamb Group, the largest auto dealership sales and acquisitions firm in North America, brokered the sale of both the C&C Toyota and C&C...
By Dan Pender
July 7, 2023
MPE Partners and 80/20 Announce the Acquisition of Flexpipe
MPE Partners, along with portfolio company 80/20, LLC of Columbia City, IN, announced the acquisition of Les Industries Flexpipe, Inc., of Farnham, Quebec. Flexpipe is a manufacturer and distributor...
By Dan Pender
July 7, 2023
CBIZ Acquires American Pension Advisors
CBIZ, Inc., a provider of financial, insurance and advisory services, announced it has acquired American Pension Advisors, Ltd. of Indianapolis, IN, effective July 1, 2023. Founded in 1997, APA...
By Dan Pender
June 29, 2023
Wabtec Acquires L&M Radiator, Inc.
Wabtec Corporation announced it has acquired L&M Radiator, Inc., a manufacturer of heavy-duty equipment radiators and heat exchangers. “We are excited to welcome L&M Radiator to Wabtec,” says Mike...
By Dan Pender
June 29, 2023
Legacy Service Partners expands its network with three new partnerships
Legacy Service Partners, a provider of residential HVAC, plumbing, and electrical services businesses in 16 states, has partnered with two Pittsburgh area home service companies and a third in Cape...
By Dan Pender
June 29, 2023
Simulations Plus Acquires Immunetrics
Simulations Plus, Inc., a provider of modeling and simulation software and services for pharmaceutical safety and efficacy, announced the acquisition of Immunetrics, Inc., a modeling and simulation...
By Dan Pender
