GGC Advantage
 

GGC’s extensive experience, unique investment philosophy, and global resources combine to provide a powerful formula for value creation within our portfolio companies:

 

Value-added partners with deep investment experience

• GGC’s principals have made numerous prior investments in the consumer products, healthcare, business/consumer services, environmental services, insurance, publishing, and industrial manufacturing industries.

• We draw on this experience as value-added partners to our portfolio companies:

  • Business strategy formulation and rigorous operations and financial analysis

  • Sourcing and consummating add-on acquisitions (over 100 completed to date)

  • Executive recruitment

  • Capital raising – debt and equity

  • Numerous industry and professional contacts to facilitate growth and corporate governance

Flexibility with respect to management, investment structure, and time horizon

• We will partner with existing management teams or with GGC Executive Partners as appropriate.

• We are able to invest throughout the capital structure in order to provide a solution that best meets the needs of the business.

• Our capital provider is patient with a focus on building long-term value, which allows us to be far more flexible than a typical private equity firm.  Our liquidity period is open-ended; we are not inhibited by fund time horizon constraints or fundraising cycles which can dictate premature exits.

High closing rate

• We pride ourselves on a culture of resourcefulness, persistence and creativity in overcoming obstacles and resolving complex situations.  Simply put, we honor the deal terms we present.

• These attributes enable us to perform to standards of speed and certainty of closing which far exceed industry norms.

Deep strategic relationship across the globe

• We maintain a unique reach into international markets through the relationship network of our lead investor, Wanxiang America Corporation (www.wanxiang.com).

  • Wanxiang is an industrial conglomerate with $9 billion in worldwide revenues across many industries and geographies.

  • GGC has a formal, committed funding relationship with Wanxiang to invest and grow US and Canadian-based companies.

• We are able to leverage Wanxiang’s extensive resources to assist our portfolio companies with a range of strategic initiatives, including:

  • Penetrating new markets and new customers both domestic and abroad

  • Proving low-cost manufacturing options and/or creating new supply relationships

  • Providing technical and logistical support in international markets

  • Introductions to key business and regulatory contacts