Bare Escentuals, one of the fastest growing personal care companies in the U.S., is a developer and multi-channel marketer of cosmetics, skin care and body care products. The company's ID bareMinerals product line is the nation's leading mineral make-up. Bare Escentuals branded personal care products are sold nationwide through select beauty retailers, direct-response television, the Internet, mail order and company-owned boutiques.

Initial Investment - August 1990
Completed Merger with MD Formulations - November 2001
Completed Recapitalization - June 2004; February 2005; October 2005; June 2006 Completed Initial Public Offering (NASDAQ: BARE) - September 2006
Completed Secondary Offering (NASDAQ:BARE) - March 2007

 

 

Design Within Reach is a provider of distinctive modern design furnishings and accessories. The company markets and sells products from prominent designers, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Charles and Ray Eames, through four highly integrated sales channels consisting of its studios, catalog, website and direct sales force. This seamless channel integration and use of a single, common inventory enable DWR to offer merchandise on an 'in stock and ready to ship' basis, versus traditional furnishings retailers, which typically require customers to wait weeks or even months for their products.

Initial Investment - January 1997
Completed Initial Public Offering (NASDAQ: DWRI) - June 2004
Completed Secondary Offering (NASDAQ: DWRI) - March 2005al Investment -

 

 

Since 1983, MD Formulations has been delivering new and innovative skin care treatments and products that fuse beauty with science. The company develops and markets its leading results-oriented aesthetic skin care line under the brand md formulations, which is distributed nationwide through aestheticians, the Internet, company-owned boutiques and select beauty retailers. MD Formulations was merged with Bare Escentuals in November 2001.

Initial Investment - June 1999
Completed Merger with Bare Escentuals - November 2001

 

 

For over fifty years, Walter Drake has been a catalog retailer of unique, inexpensive gifts, gadgets and personalized items in addition to household goods and kitchen products. Walter Drake has built a national brand with an established, loyal customer base through its diverse and continually expanding product line and its longstanding reputation for providing superior customer service. Catalog titles include Walter Drake, Home Marketplace, HomeWares and Directions.

Initial Investment - October 2001
Sold to Strategic Investor - December 2003