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Partnership Philosophy

Parthenon Capital Partners builds successful partnerships through a commitment to fostering solid investments through honest and straightforward business practices. Given our diverse backgrounds, Parthenon's investment team has a strong track record of successfully working with middle-market companies through their growth and development stages and partnering with executives to build leading companies through acquisitions and organic growth.

We have a proven formula to help build companies based on the following principles:

- Preserve the company's independence and culture

- Provide strategic guidance, not day-to-day control

- Build companies for the long-term

- Give management significant ownership

Parthenon believes that a strong partnership develops when both partners complement each other - we are both a strategic and a financial partner.

To a seller of a business, traditional financial buyers and industry buyers both have drawbacks as potential partners. A financial buyer often provides limited strategic and operational support and will apply financial engineering and a high degree of leverage to the companies in which they invest in. Companies that partner with an industry buyer will often lose control and their independent identity, as well as face risks to the organization from integration or the uncertainty created by the new parent. PCP falls in the sweet spot between industry buyers and financial buyers. Our investment enables you to retain your independence - and leaves you opportunity for more upside.

We achieve superior investment returns through growth, earnings enhancements, and strategic improvements - not through "financial engineering." We provide strategic guidance, not day-to-day control.

Parthenon's unique partnership approach to investing allows us to provide many of the benefits of financial and industry buyers without the drawbacks. Our experience providing companies with strategic and financial assistance makes us a partner that adds value. We typically use a low degree of leverage to give management the flexibility to grow the company.

Companies that partner with us are able to maintain independence while gaining the substantial resources that we have to offer. Unlike transactions with an industry buyer, a partnership with PCP can be structured to allow owners to participate economically in the future success of the company.


   
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