New Jersey-based refrigerated pet food producer Freshpet has engaged ICR for financial communications as it slates a $135M initial public offering.
Ten-year-old Freshpet, backed by investors including MidOcean Partners and Tyson Foods, said revenue for fiscal 2014 hit $74M, up 38% in the final six months through June 30. Debt is $84M.
Major retailers sell the brand through branded refrigerators in more than 12,500 stores, including Petco, Kroger, Target, Whole Foods and Walmart. "We position our brand to benefit from mainstream trends of growing pet humanization and consumer focus on health and wellness," the Secaucus-based company said in its SEC filing.
ICR managing director Katie Turner and managing partner Michael Fox are on the Freshpet account.
FreshPet CEO Richard Thompson is former chief of Meow Mix.
Teneo is handling the initial public offering of CVC Capital Partners, one of Europe’s largest private equity firms with nearly $200B in assets under management.
Brunswick Group represents Endeavor Group Holdings as it agrees to go private via its acquisition by Silver Lake technology investment firm, which is handled by Edelman Smithfield.
Tod Donhauser, a nine-year veteran of Edelman, has joined H/Advisors Abernathy as managing director and head of its San Francisco office.
Intelligent Group Ltd, a Hong Kong-based financial PR firm, has priced its initial public offering of 1.9M shares at $4, which is the low end of the $4 to $5 range.
Kekst CNC represents Grant Thornton as it sells a majority stake in its US arm to New Mountain Capital, which relies on Goldin Solutions, in what is billed as the largest PE investment in the accounting and advisory sector.
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