3GP Capital Acquires Blue Dog Designs

2 Hounds Design Acquires Yellow Dog Design

August 1, 2023

Consumer Products

Indian Trail, North Carolina-based 2 Hounds Design has acquired Greensboro-based Yellow Dog Design, combining two pet-accessory businesses and consolidating manufacturing operations in North Carolina. The deal preserves local manufacturing and brings Yellow Dog's pattern and production-art capabilities under 2 Hounds' product portfolio; Aramar Capital Group served as financial advisor to the transaction.

LDC-backed Lucid Group Acquires Bluedog

February 14, 2019

Marketing & Advertising

LDC-backed Lucid Group has acquired creative and digital consultancy Bluedog to add digital design, motion graphics, video and web development capabilities to its medical communications offering. The deal is Lucid Group’s first acquisition under its LDC partnership and is intended to broaden the Group’s creative and digital capability to better engage healthcare audiences.

RV Retailer Acquires Blue Dog RV, Adding 12 Stores in 7 States

July 28, 2021

Retail

RV Retailer, LLC announced the acquisition of Blue Dog RV, a 12-store recreational vehicle dealer network headquartered in Post Falls, Idaho. The deal expands RV Retailer's footprint into seven new states and will add over 400 Blue Dog associates to RV Retailer's nationwide store network of approximately 70 locations.

H.I.G. Capital Makes Equity Investment in The Bluebird Group

August 9, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

An affiliate of H.I.G. Capital has made an equity investment in The Bluebird Group, a Minneapolis-based retail services and consulting firm. The investment will support Bluebird's expansion and development of next-generation digital insights and analytics to enhance services for consumer brands.

3 Rivers Capital Acquires Majority Stake in Blue Chip Group

December 1, 2021

Food & Beverage

Pittsburgh-based private equity firm 3 Rivers Capital has acquired a majority stake in Salt Lake City–headquartered Blue Chip Group, parent of the Augason Farms emergency preparedness food brand. The investment is intended to provide capital and operational support to expand Blue Chip's dry food and beverage contract manufacturing capacity and scale Augason Farms' retail and e-commerce distribution.

Level 5 Capital Partners Invests $20M in GoDog

October 13, 2022

Restaurants & Hospitality

Level 5 Capital Partners has committed $20 million of growth capital to GoDog to fund the rollout of a franchising platform and accelerate the pet services company's national expansion. Level 5 will also build an affiliated franchisee platform (L5 Pups) and serve as an anchor franchise partner as GoDog scales beyond its existing locations in the Southeastern United States.