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Food & Beverage transactions continue to close during unprecedented times

During times of market volatility, investors gravitate to the stable, recession-resistant qualities of the Food & Beverage sector. In the current environment, with in-home consumption up meaningfully, Food & Beverage… Read More

Fish Is Life Wismettac 2020

Fish is Life has sold a majority share to Wismettac

Client: Management Client Location: France Target: COMPTOIRS DES 3 CAPS SARL (Fish Is Life) Target Location: France Buyer: NTC Wismettac Europe B.V. (Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd.) Buyer Location: Japan Target Description: Fish… Read More

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CNBC Squawk Box Feature | Should Amazon Buy Macy’s?

View original post from CNBC on June 30, 2020 here. As brick-and-mortar shops maintain over 80% of retail sales, e-commerce platforms are exploring opportunities to take a slice of that revenue.… Read More

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Unquote | Lincoln International Discusses European Gym Market

Aude Doyen and Harry Kalmanowicz, Lincoln Managing Directors, discuss with Unquote how the gym sector has been impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As gyms and fitness clubs across Europe… Read More

Barron’s | Dominic Rispoli Discusses Retail Sector

Dominic Rispoli, Lincoln Managing Director, discusses with Barron’s how the retail sector has been impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Particularly, the pandemic has underlined the power of Amazon, which… Read More

Gibson Brands TEAC Global Acoustic Partners LLC 2020

Gibson has announced the sale of a majority stake in Japan-listed TEAC Corporation

Lincoln acted as the exclusive financial advisor to both Gibson and TEAC, working closely with the TEAC Board and management as well as Gibson, to advise on and execute the… Read More

E-commerce and the Compression of Retail Disruption

In recent years, the consumer shopping experience was already experiencing rapid upheaval with e-commerce growing from 6.5% of total retail sales in 2014 to 11.0% in 2019(1); COVID-19 only accelerated… Read More

Awakening of the Healthcare Consumer

Since the beginning of the Information Age, there has been discussion around the importance, emergence, and empowerment of the health care consumer. This has been enabled and driven by rapid… Read More

Consolidation in Automotive Services Set to Accelerate with COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the way people behave and how businesses operate. As part of those changes, society has also altered the way it moves. More specifically, in… Read More

Pet Sector M&A Insights and the Implications of COVID-19

In times of market volatility and economic downturns, investors gravitate to certain recession-resistant sectors.  Generally, the pet care category grew through the Great Recession when compared to the broader economy,… Read More

Lincoln International Releases Proprietary Q1 2020 Middle Market Index

Published by Bloomberg on May 7, 2020 here. As companies navigate COVID-19, middle market enterprise values fare better than the S&P 500 No industry sector was spared by the declines… Read More

Restaurants – Preparing for the Future

While restaurants remain hyper focused on managing near-term liquidity and current operations, owners and managers are starting to shift their thinking toward what business will look like in the new… Read More

Sauer Brands, a portfolio company of Falfurrias Capital Partners, has acquired Kernel Season’s maker Chicago Custom Foods

Chicago-based Chicago Custom Foods (“CCF”) is a leader in branded popcorn seasonings, a category it created in 2000 with the introduction of Kernel Season’s, now America’s number one selling brand… Read More

Aurora Resurgence International Cookware Kartesa 2020

Aurora Resurgence has sold International Cookware to Kartesia

International Cookware is a worldwide renowned manufacturer of glass kitchenware equipment. The company designs, manufactures and distributes cookware equipment, primarily made of borosilicate glass, which offers superior thermal shock resistance.… Read More

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The Role of “Physical Space”: New Constraints for Retail in a Post-COVID World

In an earlier COVID-19 article, we addressed how COVID-19 might impact consumer spending habits. In addition to shifts in spending behaviors, the very location where said spending occurs will be… Read More

Trends in Digital Fitness

The Fitness Industry is Being Disrupted by New Business Models, Digital Delivery and Subscription Commerce The fitness industry has already been experiencing the massive growth of digital fitness, out-of-studio experiences… Read More

Fitness Industry Insights: Working Out Solutions Amidst Uncertainty

With the spread of COVID-19, social distancing and orders to “shelter in place,” health clubs everywhere are grappling with sudden and significant business challenges – as well as profound uncertainty… Read More

How COVID-19 Could Change Consumer Spending Behavior, Even in a Post-Pandemic World

As people stock chest freezers with frozen meals and stores and restaurants temporality shutter their doors, COVID-19 has undoubtedly created significant disruption within consumer purchasing in the restaurant, retail and… Read More

Thinking Outside The Box

Restaurants have never faced such a challenging operating environment with the combined risks to the health and wellbeing of their staff and customers, along with purely seeking to get through… Read More

Aurelius Ghotel Art Invest 2020

AURELIUS has sold GHOTEL Group to Art-Invest Real Estate

GHOTEL, headquartered in Bonn, Germany, operates a chain of modern hotels under its own and franchise brands with business travelers as the main target group. GHOTEL focuses on the crisis… Read More

Lincoln International Releases Proprietary Q4 2019 Middle Market Index

Lincoln International reports steady middle market growth Even as the enterprise value performance across the middle market reached all-time highs during the fourth quarter, Lincoln International (Lincoln), a leading global… Read More

Restaurant Investors Are Expected to Remain Active in 2020

Buyers Are Sitting on Capital That Needs to be Deployed While middle market restaurant brands once aggressively pursued IPO’s as the liquidity event of choice, today private equity and family… Read More

Gorilla Commerce Trilantic Capital Partners 2019

Gorilla Commerce has partnered with Trilantic North America

Based in Westport, Connecticut, Gorilla Commerce operates as a direct-to-consumer home and pet product development platform. The company manages over 3,000 SKUs across more than 30 product categories through a… Read More

AML Invest Hans Im Gluck Franchise GmbH 2020

A majority stake in Hans im Glück Franchise GmbH has been sold to a private investor consortium

Hans im Glück is the market leader in the Gourmet Burger concept in Germany with 81 restaurants and system sales of approximately Euro 147 million in 2019. Headquartered in Munich,… Read More

Lake View Capital, Inc The Mochi Ice Cream Company 2020

Lakeview Capital has acquired The Mochi Ice Cream Company

Client: Lakeview Capital Inc. Client Headquarters: United States Target: The Mochi Ice Cream Company Target Headquarters: United States Acquirer: Lakeview Capital Inc. Acquirer Headquarters: United States Target Description: Established in… Read More