Plastics / Metals / Tooling
Manufacturing & Engineering

Welcome to Reliant

A privately held manufacturing company actively expanding through partnering or the acquisition of small to middle-market private manufacturing companies.

Reliant is a privately held manufacturing company with expertise in plastics, metals, and tooling. Reliant devotes its industry and technology expertise to develop small to mid-market manufacturing companies in the private sector. We leverage the focus and expertise of our dedicated resources to create value.

Based in the Chicago metropolitan area. Reliant is committed to finding sound manufacturing companies where a new vision and leadership can drive significant growth and deliver results. We are actively seeking small to mid-market private manufacturing companies to expand by making them more flexible, agile and profitable so that they can capitalize on business and market opportunities through partnership or acquisition.

Our primary focus targets companies that are experiencing significant change in their markets, operations, or capital structure.

Our History

Pioneering a successful manufacturing investment strategy, in the 2000’s our partners came together to form Reliant.

Our mission is to invest in private operating companies to achieve significant long-term appreciation in equity value. We accomplish this by expanding working capital, strengthening the balance sheet, funding new technologies, improving processes, placing top talent, acquisitions and mergers, and more.

Our investment philosophy encompasses both management buyouts and structured minority investments.

Industry Focus

Dedicated to manufacturing companies engaged in the transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products.

We have a strong belief in our partnership approach. It is our business philosophy. This approach has served us well and we believe it distinguishes us as a partner of choice for many first-class management teams looking to transform, grow or improve their businesses.

Approach

We have achieved success through the pursuit of controlled buyouts, leveraged buyouts and growth equity investments. Our approach is centered on these core principles:

  • Speed-to-market over perfection
  • Cash is King
  • Identification of issues offering the greatest impact
  • Resource and staffing evaluation
  • Position the organization to be more agile and nimble

Value

We create value through a combination of the following:

  • Facilitate operational change
  • Collaborate with current management to identify growth drivers
  • Establish key partnerships and other business relationships
  • Finance major business imperatives and acquisitions

Our skilled management team brings the experience and know-how derived from a broad range of industries, encompassing companies of all sizes and life-cycle stages. Our investment professionals and partner members combine business, technology and financial acumen, industry insight, and operational expertise to generate true value and realize positive returns on investment.

Our Strategy

To create value and superior returns for investors by pursuing these investment strategies:

Management Buy-Outs (MBO)

Assets and operations of the target business are acquired by the existing management team. MBOs are favored exit strategies for private business owners that wish to retire or larger companies that wish to pursue the sale of divisions that no longer fit into the core of their business.

Management buyouts typically involve an investment by Reliant in the following situations:

— Buyouts of privately held companies —

— Buyouts of divisions or subsidiaries of larger organizations —

— Recapitalizations of family-owned companies (designed to achieve liquidity or raise equity) —

— Sellers are frequently permitted to retain significant continuing ownership —

Structured Equity Investments

Entrepreneurs who do not want to sell control of their companies generally find structured equity investments particularly attractive. Traditional sources of capital, such as public equity, high-yield debt and commercial bank financings are increasingly difficult to obtain for middle market companies.

Minority or structured equity investments typically involve an investment by Reliant in the following scenarios:

— Companies seeking capital for the purposes of funding rapid growth —

— Financing options to free up capital for the purposes of pursuing acquisitions or mergers —

Post investment, management teams benefit from Reliant’s value added expertise as we offer sophisticated financial and strategic advice, introductions to new contacts, as well as follow-on growth and acquisition capital to fully realize returns for the company and for our institutional partners alike.

Investment Criteria

Most small to middle-market sized manufacturing companies meeting the following criteria:

Revenue

$2.5 Million

Annual Revenue

to

$250 Million

Annual Revenue

Capital Requirements

$1 Million

Minimum

to

$30 Million

Industries

Manufacturing
Consumer Products
Business Services

Attributes

Management Buy-Outs (MBO)
Family-owned or closely-held businesses
Portfolio companies of private equity firms
Ownership transitions
Corporate divestitures
Growth equity investments

Geography

United States of America

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