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Monomoy Capital Partners
Guiding your business and capital to safe harbor
THE MONOMOY SWEET SPOT:
• Companies with $50 to $500 million of sales
• Add- on transactions with $5+ million of sales
• Equity investments of $10 to $75 million
• Performers, underperformers, and turnarounds
• Diverstitures, family businesses, restructurings
• Companies that matter to their customers
• Manufacturing, distribution, consumer products
• Any business we can help make better
We can close difficult transactions in as little as 30
days without reliance on third-party financing
Right now, you’re probably looking for assurances.
Assurances that markets will continue to recover, that
industry will rebound, that your business will prosper
in the next economic cycle.
The economy will eventually right itself. In the
meantime, you need a genuine partner - a partner
that will stand by your side, help you navigate a
changing economic landscape and position you to
excel in the upturn. We are that partner - for your
transaction or your business.
With $700 million in assets under management,
Monomoy Capital Partners is a private investment
firm dedicated to constructive investing and
business improvement in the smaller end of the
middle market. We invest in companies with $50
to $500 million in annual revenues. We provide
solutions in the most difficult business transactions.
We create value for our investors and our
businesses by giving managers of any company
the financial, strategic and operational resources
they need to succeed.
We build profitable growing companies. We love
what we do. And we’re in it for the long haul.
We’re the right private equity fund for you.

About Us
Monomoy invests in fundamentally sound
businesses that face operational, financial or
business challenges. We will buy any business that
we can help, both performing and underperforming.
We provide the capital necessary to strengthen
businesses, we work with management to make
businesses better, and we provide the strategic and
operational support businesses need to prosper
and grow.
Any private equity fund can promise to pay a few
more dollars. Monomoy is a solution provider and
strategic partner. We bring certainty and order to
even the most chaotic sales process. Over the past
five years, we have closed over 30 middle market
acquisitions and our companies currently produce
over $1.2 billion in combined sales. More than 5,000
people work for Monomoy companies across four
continents, from North America to Asia, including
the world’s fastest-growing markets.
Investment Criteria
We invest in asset-intensive businesses that truly
matter to their suppliers, customers and employees
and make a difference in the markets they serve.
Some face daunting challenges; others are doing
well but could do better. We buy underperformers,
turnarounds, and EBITDA-negative companies.
And we buy healthy companies that can take
advantage of further operational or strategic
improvement. All of them benefit from partnership
with Monomoy.
Our primary focus is middle market companies
with $50 to $500 million in annual sales,
including manufacturing, industrial, distribution, and
consumer products businesses. We review add-on
transactions with companies having as little as $5
million in annual sales.
We can close difficult, multi-party transactions in
as little as 30 days without a financing contingency,
and we don’t shy away from the complicated deals
that deter other buyers. We buy businesses through
simple asset or stock sales, corporate divestitures,
out-of-court restructurings, Article 9 transactions
and bankruptcy. We work hard to involve
management, employees, vendors and customers
in every acquisition. And we keep our word at every
stage of the process.
Business Improvement
Monomoy is passionate about improving every
aspect of the companies we buy, and our most
important job is inspiring the managers and
employees of our businesses to share our passion.
We are experts in financial and supply chain
management, process improvement, strategic
sales, and the lean manufacturing principles of
the Toyota Production System. Our operating and
finance professionals work alongside management
in every Monomoy company to create a culture of
continuous improvement throughout our portfolio.
We are comfortable working with incumbent
management, bringing in a new team, or
supplementing management with experienced
industry executives. We’re also proud of our
history of working constructively with trade unions,
and we often negotiate new collective bargaining
agreements in connection with our investments.
We believe that even the best companies
benefit from our passion for business improvement.
The Monomoy system works: we have never failed
to eliminate waste and improve profitability in a
business that we have acquired.
Long-Term Vision
Monomoy builds great companies, not just profits.
We own our portfolio companies for as long as
we can add value through business improvement
or strategic acquisitions, usually from five to
seven years.
Throughout our ownership, we provide Monomoy
companies with the resources they need to prosper
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About Us
and grow through every stage of the business cycle
– working capital management, materials sourcing,
facility consolidation, manufacturing improvement,
process efficiency, and product mix improvement.
Following an initial period of focused product
improvement and profit improvement, our companies
typically extend their footprint through both
acquisition and organic sales growth.
At Monomoy, we make money for our investors
by making the businesses we buy better. We sell
our portfolio companies as healthy, profitable and
sustainable businesses poised for continued success.
The Monomoy Production System
We work with a lot of smart people in our
portfolio companies. The Monomoy Production
System makes them smarter. At Monomoy, we
have adapted the lean manufacturing and quality
production principles known as the Toyota
Production System to create a culture of continuous
improvement throughout our companies. For
lack of a better name, we call our approach the
Monomoy Production System, “MPS” for
short. Our operations group works closely with
management using MPS to evaluate every
business process, determine where improvements
can be made, and implement a series of waste
reduction projects in every company, every year.
But what really sets us apart are the Monomoy
“boot camps” that we run throughout the
portfolio. Each quarter, we bring together 15 to 20
managers from across the Monomoy portfolio for
two weeks of intense training on lean manufacturing
and the practical “shop floor” application of MPS.
Participants work in teams of five and each boot
camp is held at a different Monomoy company. The
Monomoy boot camps have now trained over 100
team members in the Monomoy Production System
and have produced off-the-chart improvements at
all of our portfolio companies.
The Monomoy Story
Just below the elbow of Cape Cod, the Monomoy
Islands stretch 10 miles into the waters of Nantucket
Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. Thousands of ships
sank there in search of safe harbor in the 17th and
18th centuries, and the treacherous currents off
Monomoy forced Pilgrim settlers to enter Cape Cod
Bay instead of continuing south to Virginia. In 1828,
the federal government built the Monomoy Point
Lighthouse to guide commercial vessels to ports in
Connecticut and New York or safely out to sea.
In 2005, we built Monomoy Capital Partners to
help both healthy and challenged businesses
navigate the currents of change. We give
our companies access to the resources and
expertise they need to succeed in the rough waters
of commerce. We guide them to safe harbor when
times are tough, we help them avoid obstacles when
things aren’t going well, and we deliver them to safe
passage in the course of our ownership.
142 West 57th Street, 17th Floor New York, NY 10019 p 212. 699. 4000 f 212. 699. 4010 w www.mcpfunds.com