Industrial manufacturing and distribution leaders are leveraging defensible new technologies to develop energy-efficient, powerful and customized offerings. Growing global competition requires successful companies to understand customer needs and meet these demands with a differentiated solution. Summit Partners works with emerging market leaders that are displacing market incumbents by improving on traditional models of product design, manufacturing, and distribution and sales.
Since 1984, Summit Partners has provided growth equity and credit to more than 20 industrial companies. With more than 10 public offerings and strategic mergers in the industrial sector, Summit has a proven track record of helping companies to create value for management and shareholders.
Here are some examples:
- Summit’s financing of Keystone RV Company provided ownership incentives to key executives, fostering an organization-wide commitment to growth and success. The company’s revenues grew rapidly, mainly through internal growth.
- Working with EMED Co. Inc., Summit recruited direct-mail professional, Tom Fay, as CEO, who overhauled the company’s marketing strategy. A yearlong process improvement effort focused on expanding relationships with top customers, developing relationships with new customers and establishing a new outbound telemarketing operation.
- Summit Partners provided the capital and resources to help Triton Systems Inc. expand its automated teller machine product line into growth markets worldwide.
To learn more about our investments in the industrial sector, please view our portfolio.