Consumer Retail
In choosing Solomon Partners as your advisor, you will be partnering with a team of highly experienced, senior consumer and retail experts with a demonstrated track record of deploying our knowledge to help clients realize strategic and financial success.
A TRUSTED ADVISOR TO LEADING CONSUMER, RETAIL AND DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER COMPANIES
Solomon Partners’ Consumer Retail group provides strategic and financial advisory services to public and private companies in industries across retail, consumer and entertainment, leisure & lifestyle.
We cover:
RETAIL
Apparel & Footwear
Automotive & Powersports
Broadlines/ Off Price / Mass / Dollar
Hardlines & Electronics
Home Furnishings / Improvement
Jewelry & Luxury
Specialty Softlines
CONSUMER
Beauty & Personal Care
Durables
Food & Beverage
Health & Wellness
Household Products
Pet
ENTERTAINMENT, LEISURE, & LIFESTYLE
Consumer Services
Enthusiast & Outdoor
Fitness & Wellness Tech
Site-Based / Experiential Entertainment
Our industry knowledge and creative deal-making ability helps our clients generate long-term shareholder value across all channels including DTC, wholesale and experiential. We have advised a diverse group of companies such as Conair, Hibbett, Hollywood Bowl, Home Depot, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), Keurig Dr. Pepper, LL Bean, Puttshack, PVH, The J.M. Smucker Company, Tractor Supply, Under Armour, VF Corporation and Walmart.
We provide M&A, financing and restructuring advisory services to clients ranging from multi-national, large-capitalization corporations to emerging, high-growth, privately-held and sponsor-owned companies.
Solomon Partners has extensive experience successfully navigating Special Committees through highly scrutinized sale processes with significant shareholders to maximize value for all stakeholders. Our team is equipped to handle all elements of the transaction – from providing a fairness opinion to running a full M&A process or restructuring. As a result of our independence and lack of conflicts, we have advised on many high-profile transactions for clients, including American Apparel, American Greetings, Black Rifle Coffee Company, Boulder Brands, Nutraceutical, Perry Ellis, Sears Hometown & Outlet, SkullCandy and Stein Mart.
Our Consumer Retail team delivers valuable cross-sector perspective and approach via collaboration with our bankers across technology, software, data & analytics, healthcare, fintech / payments, distribution, real estate and media sectors.
Transactions
Serving as financial advisor to Steve Madden on its pending acquisition of Kurt Geiger
Served as financial advisor to VERA WANG on the sale of its intellectual property to WHP Global
Served as financial advisor to Diggerland USA on its sale to Innovative Attraction Management
Served as a financial advisor to Saks Global on its acquisition of Neiman Marcus Group
Served as financial advisor to Hudson’s Bay Canada on its Saks Global-related recapitalization
Served as financial advisor to F9 Brands, Inc., parent company of Cabinets to Go, on its acquisition of certain assets of LL Flooring Holdings, Inc. through a §363 transaction
SENIOR LEADERSHIP
ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERTISE
Our bankers have significant experience working with founders, entrepreneurs, families and executives of both public and privately-held companies. We recognize the intricacies of early stage, high-growth businesses and help entrepreneurs reach the next stages of their companies’ lifecycle by raising growth capital, forming strategic partnerships and, when the time is right, monetizing their business.
Recent examples of our work with entrepreneurial companies include advising the founders of FATTY Smoked Meat Sticks, Flight Club, Moose Knuckles, Nature’s Bakery, rag & bone, SoulCycle and Scene75 in their strategic sales. These transactions allowed owners to recognize value today for future growth while diversifying their wealth to focus on new ventures.
NEWS & INSIGHTS
GLOBAL EXPERTISE FROM OUR NATIXIS PARTNERSHIP
Today, Solomon Partners is an independently-run affiliate of Natixis, part of Groupe BPCE, a top ten European and top 20 global bank. Our partnership provides our clients with global coverage across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.
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