Carlyle Acquires Worldpac from Advance Auto Parts for $1.5 Billion

ProAmpac to Acquire PAC Worldwide

August 30, 2025

Packaging

ProAmpac signed a definitive agreement to acquire PAC Worldwide, a customized flexible packaging solutions provider. The combined company will expand ProAmpac’s geographic footprint and deepen vertical integration across materials, film, converting, and recycled paper capabilities for e-commerce, consumer packaged goods, and industrial markets.

Carlyle Acquires Controlling Stake in Highway Industries and Roop Automotives

February 13, 2025

Manufacturing

The Carlyle Group, with equity from funds affiliated with Carlyle Asia Partners (CAP), completed a controlling-stake acquisition of Highway Industries Limited and Roop Automotives Limited, combining the businesses into a single platform serving global automotive OEMs. Carlyle intends to scale the platform through consolidation, operational improvements and potential synergistic add-ons to deepen capabilities across forged and precision-machined components, steering assemblies and powertrain applications.

Alvarez & Marsal Capital Partners Acquires Worldwise, Inc.

September 28, 2021

Consumer Products

Alvarez & Marsal Capital Partners (AMCP), together with its affiliated A&M Capital Opportunities Fund, has acquired Worldwise, Inc., a Novato, California-based leader in pet supplies and branded pet essentials. Worldwise CEO Kevin Fick will remain in place as AMCP supports the company in expanding e-commerce capabilities, developing new products and pursuing bolt-on acquisitions to scale the newly created pet platform.

The Carlyle Group Makes Growth Investment in Pharmapacks

November 12, 2020

E-Commerce

The Carlyle Group made a strategic growth investment of more than $250 million in Pharmapacks, an ecommerce marketplace enablement platform and large marketplace seller, valuing the company at approximately $1.1 billion. The capital is intended to accelerate Pharmapacks' growth by expanding fulfillment capacity, building out its data and analytics platform, and increasing the number of brand partners; J.P. Morgan served as lender and advisor on the transaction.

Bain Capital Private Equity Acquires World Wide Packaging

April 3, 2018

Packaging

Bain Capital Private Equity has acquired World Wide Packaging LLC, a US-based cosmetics packaging provider, and simultaneously purchased a Chinese cosmetics packaging manufacturer with plans to merge the two into an integrated global solutions provider. The transaction keeps WWP's senior management in place and aims to combine US customer-facing design and sales capabilities with manufacturing scale in China to expand service offerings and access high-growth Asian markets.

World Fuel Services Corporation Acquires PAPCO, Inc. and Associated Petroleum Products, Inc.

July 5, 2016

Oil & Gas

World Fuel Services Corporation completed the acquisitions of PAPCO, Inc. (Virginia Beach, VA) and Associated Petroleum Products, Inc. (Tacoma, WA). The acquisitions expand World Fuel's commercial and industrial fuel distribution capabilities and regional footprint across the United States, adding significant revenue and employee bases to its land segment operations.