Portfolio : Consumer Products

Al's Holding, Inc.
East Windsor, CT

Al's is a leading manufacturer and distributor of fountain drinks in the Northeast. Al's maintains a full line of handcrafted soft drinks under the Al's trademark, and is a licensed manufacturer of Royal Crown Cola and Canada Dry products. Al's supplies independent distributors in the Northeast, from Buffalo, New York to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with products ultimately distributed to over 10,000 eating and drinking establishments.

Global Convenience Investments, LLC
Moline, IL

Global Convenience Investments owns and operates a convenience store chain under the Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard name, located in the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa. Along with the British Petroleum gasoline it sells to both retail and corporate customers, the stores offer a full array of convenience store items, as well as the convenience of other co-located businesses (Subway, Domino’s, Sprint PCS etc.) In addition, several of the sites have laundry-mats, car washes, and other tenants.

Hillsdale Furniture, LLC
Louisville, KY

Hillsdale (www.hillsdalefurniture.com) is a designer and importer of residential case goods and accent furniture. Hillsdale sells a broad line of bedroom, dining room, occasional and accent furniture targeting promotional to middle price points. The company has a well-developed infrastructure for sourcing from Asia and offering customized distribution and marketing services to support the needs of its customers.

MEDport, Inc.
Providence, RI

MEDport designs and sources innovative healthy living, diabetes and pharmaceutical management, and other medical products.  The Company has developed a large number of solution-based products and presently controls 73 US and international trademarks and patents.  MEDport is also the parent company Fit & Fresh, a line of cold food storage containers that offer innovative designs revolving around healthy eating on the go.

NEBC, LLC
Southbridge, MA

NEBC (Superior Bakeries) is a commercial bakery that manufactures a variety of dessert products sold through in-store bakeries at supermarkets across New England or private labeled for recognized consumer brands such as Weight Watchers and Entenmann’s. Its products includes éclairs, Madeleine and Black & White cookies, and Brownie Bites.  Ironwood invested in senior subordinated debt with member’s interest to support New England Capital Partners’ acquisition of NEBC, LLC.

Buy-Rite Costume Jewelry
Freehold, NJ

Buy-Rite (www.buyriteinc.com) is a designer and supplier of value-oriented costume jewelry and fun novelty products to leading national retailers. Founded in 1975, Buy-Rite maintains a large design and product development staff which partners closely with its customers to develop new products.

Dancing Deer Baking Company
Roxbury, MA

Dancing Deer Baking Company (www.dancingdeer.com) is a manufacturer of all-natural cookies and cakes. The company, based in Roxbury, Massachusetts, sells its products through the grocery, direct-to-consumer, reseller, and corporate channels.

FitLinxx
Stamford, CT

FitLinxx (www.fitlinxx.com) produces an integrated monitoring and reporting system to track individual exercise programs and encourage fitness activities.

Healthtrax, Inc.
Glastonbury, CT

Healthtrax (www.healthtrax.com) is a leading owner/operator of medical Fitness centers throughout the Northeastern United States, primarily in partnership with community hospital systems.

ISIS
Burlington, VT

ISIS (www.isisforwomen.com) is a leading outdoor apparel brand focused exclusively on the women’s market.  Its products are sold by leading retailers such as REI and Title 9.  Management has received many accolades over the years including, ISPO/DuPont Brand New Women’s award in 2002 and Outdoor Magazine Top 25 “Outdoor Goddesses” in 2004.  Its products have been featured on the Today Show, and in print publications such as New York Times, Health, SKI, and Fitness magazines. The capital invested by Ironwood will be used to fund growth initiatives.