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December 24, 2009
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC today announced a definitive agreement to acquire BCA, Europe's leading vehicle auctions and remarketing company from Montagu Private Equity. With 45 remarketing centers spread across 12 countries, BCA annually...

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December 15, 2009
Industries with private equity activity grow more rapidly (as measured by total production, value added and employment) and experience no more volatility in the face of industry cycles than other industries. In some cases, industries with private...
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November 24, 2009
JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Clayton Dubilier & Rice, LLC ("CD&R") today announced the completion of a previously announced agreement under which CD&R-managed funds are investing $477 million for an approximate 46 percent equity interest in...
NCI Building Systems

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October 20, 2009
NCI Building Systems, Inc. (NYSE: NCS) and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. today announced the completion of the previously-announced $250 million equity investment in the Company by CD&R-managed funds. The CD&R-managed funds acquired...
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October 7, 2009
JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Inc. ("CD&R") today announced an agreement under which a CD&R-managed fund will invest $477 million for a 46 percent equity interest in the company as part of a broader recapitalization...
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August 14, 2009
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - NCI Building Systems, Inc. (NYSE: NCS) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund VIII, L.P. (“the CD&R Fund”), a fund managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice,...

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July 14, 2009
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice today announced that seasoned consumer products, leisure and retail executive, Paul S. Pressler, has joined the Firm as an advisor. Mr. Pressler has extensive operating and consumer marketing experience in leading some...

Perspectives

January 16, 2009
In financing our portfolio companies, we want to ensure that management always has the balance sheet flexibility to execute long-term business building strategies even in challenging times.
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital

Perspectives

January 1, 2009
In The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, Robert Finkel aggregates management lessons from ten pioneers of private equity. The book is filled with colorful stories on the subjects that most matter to high-level investors, such as...

Media Coverage

Christian Rochat, Robert Quarta PQR, December 2008
December 1, 2008
A talk with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s Roberto Quarta & Christian Rochat
Private Equity International Awards 2007

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CD&R Receives 2007 North American LBO Firm of the Year Award Private Equity International
December 31, 2007
2007 has been an exceptionally productive year for CD&R in terms of realizations, new investments, creating value in the portfolio and building the organization. The Firm has announced realizations generating over $3 billion and deployed (or...

Perspectives

January 1, 2007
All private equity firms seek to maximize the value of their investments. However, there are many different models or routes to this end. What shall be referred to as the “industrial approach” in this chapter is a distinctive model which is based on...

Perspectives

November 27, 2006
What's so good about private equity? A lot.

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The Times (UK)
July 29, 2006
Since 1978, CD&R has been identifying opportunities to acquire non-core corporate orphans – businesses whose operating and financial performance can be enhanced dramatically by the Firm's proactive ownership model. The Times (UK) profiles CD...
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Private Equity International, 2005 Private Equity Analyst, 2005 Buyouts, 2005 The Deal, 2005
December 31, 2005
CD&R Receives 2005 Deal of the Year Awards: Hertz  In December 2005, a CD&R-led investor group completed the acquisition of The Hertz Corporation in a transaction valued at $15 billion. Hertz, formerly a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company (...

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Private Equity International, June 2005
June 1, 2005
CD&R believes its breadth and depth of management experience position it well to acquire businesses across a wide range of industries and with various business characteristics. CD&R's operating partner have broad industry experience that can...
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CD&R Receives 2003 Exit of the Year Award: Kinko’s Private Equity International
March 1, 2004
In February 2004, CD&R completed the sale of Kinkos to FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) for $2.4 billion in cash. CD&R's investment  [PEI Exit of the Year] in Kinko's dates back to December 1996, when a CD&R-managed fund initially acquired...
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CD&R Receives 2001 Exit of the Year Award: Alliant Exchange Buyouts Newsletter
November 1, 2001
In November 2001, CD&R completed the sale of Alliant Exchange, Inc., one of the largest foodservice providers in the U.S.  [Buyouts Logo] with sales of approximately $6.7 billion, to Royal Ahold (NYSE: AHO), the international food retail and...
Donald J. Gogel (left), Chief Executive Officer of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, receives the Private Equity Hall of Fame Award from Steven P. Galante, President of Asset Alternatives, Inc.

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CDR Inducted into Private Equity Hall of Fame
May 1, 2000
Donald J. Gogel (left), Chief Executive Officer of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, receives the Private Equity Hall of Fame Award from Steven P. Galante, President of Asset Alternatives, Inc., publisher of The Private Equity Analyst. Inducted in 2000...
Cover of "Pioneering Portfolio Management" by David F. Swensen

Perspectives

January 1, 2000
As Yale's chief investment officer, David F. Swensen transformed the management of the university's portfolio, largely by focusing on nonconventional strategies, including a heavy allocation to private equity. Swensen’s chapter on CD&R’s...
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