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Kinderhook Industries is a New York-based private equity firm founded in 2003.〔Company Overview of Kinderhook Industries, Businessweek.com retrieved 5 October 2012〕〔Kinderhook.com〕 The firm has some $1.2 billion of assets under management. The firm invests in orphaned non-core divisions of corporate parents and public companies, existing small capitalization public companies lacking institutional support and management-led recapitalizations and buyouts of entrepreneur-owned companies and troubled situations. The firm typically invests in the United States.〔Company Overview of Kinderhook Industries, Businessweek.com retrieved 5 October 2012〕 ==Transactions== In 2007, it bought Blitz USA, an Oklahoma-based company that produced plastic gasoline cans among other products. That firm went bankrupt in the summer of 2012 as a result of a number of lawsuits over the safety of its products.〔Company Overview of Kinderhook Industries, Businessweek.com retrieved 5 October 2012〕 In March 2012, Kinderhook took control of First Tee Transport, under its Custom Ecology unit. First Tee provides waster disposal services and is based in Pinehurst, North Carolina.〔Kinderhook.com〕 In May, 2012, year it sold EAM, a maker of absorbent cores used in feminine hygiene products for $61 million, more than five times what it had paid for the firm.〔Kinderhook Netting Over 5.5-Times Cash On Sale Of EAM To Domtar, by Mohammed Aly Sergie, May 11, 2012, 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc〕 In June, 2012, the firm took control of M. Davis Company, Incorporated (doing business as USA Recovery, and Skip Masters), a firm based in El Dorado Hills, California that reprocesses property when owners default on loans. This firm was brought under the umbrella of Primeritus Financial Services, another Kinderhook unit.〔Kinderhook.com〕 In September, 2012, it acquired Rizzo Environmental Services Inc., a waste collection company in Sterling Heights, Michigan.〔Trash Treasure: Kinderhook Bags Waste-Collection Platform, by Laura Kreutzer, September 14, 2012, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.〕 In that same month, the firm sold Robinson Piper Software Group (RPSG) for more than one and a half times the amount it had paid.〔Kinderhook Industries Sells RPSG to Lagniappe, by Angela Sormani, -prHUB.com retrieved 5 October 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kinderhook Industries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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