  Gary Holdren, Huron Consulting Group CEO |
 
Addison Search provides specialized temporary and permanent placement of finance and accounting, information technology, and clerical personnel. The company was founded in 1999 by Joel Katz and a team of experienced industry operators to capitalize on increased demand for knowledgeable, local providers of temporary and permanent placement staffing services. In May 2006, Lake Capital made a strategic investment in Addison Search to enable the company to build a leading, national provider of temporary and permanent placement services in selected functional verticals through both organic and acquisition-enhanced means. Addison Search is headquartered in Chicago and also has offices in Boston, Houston, and Schaumburg (Illinois).
Archstone's service offerings
focus on optimizing a client's value chain by addressing
three main areas of its clients' businesses:
Archstone is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, with offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, London, New York City, San Francisco, and Toronto, and employs approximately 200 billable professionals.
In July 2004, Lake Capital invested in Storecast Merchandising Corporation, a national provider of merchandising services to retailers and consumer product manufacturers. After acquiring four companies, the company rebranded in 2007 to Driveline. Driveline's national network of more than 10,000 professional merchandising employees performs regularly scheduled, dedicated route services and special projects at the store-level for a specific retailer or multiple manufacturers. Driveline provides coverage in more than 70,000 retail locations across virtually all retail channels, including food and drug stores, home centers, dollar stores, mass merchants, category killers, clubs, and convenience stores. Services include retail execution, continuity coverage and selling, Homestore programs, new store and remodels, knowledge and events, DSD programs, logistics services, and category management support. Driveline is headquartered outside of Philadelphia, with offices in Minneapolis, Mooresville, North Carolina, and the Boise, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco metro areas.
As a result of its partnership
with Lake Capital, Dutko has been able to enhance
its five core enterprises, each of which offers best-in-class
service:
Dutko is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in Boston, Denver, Las Vegas, Tallahassee, Miami, Prague, and Vienna.
In March 2008, Lake Capital made a strategic investment in FishNet to enable the company to grow the scope and reach of its service offerings through organic initiatives and acquisitions. FishNet is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.
Haggin Marketing provides strategic marketing planning,
creative, production, media, distribution and analytics
services in a multi-channel environment for its clients.
With a specialty in catalog marketing, direct mail,
FSI media, retail, e-mail marketing and e-commerce,
the agency’s blue chip roster includes Dell, American
Express, AT&T, eBay, Cingular, Cintas, Amazon.com, Sunglass
Hut International, and more. In May 2006, Lake Capital made a strategic investment in Haggin Marketing. Together with management, Lake Capital plans to build the business via acquisition and organic growth into a full-service, multi-channel direct marketing agency. Haggin Marketing is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area, with offices in Chicago, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia and East Greenbush, New York.
Hudson Energy Services is a competitive supplier of
electricity and natural gas to commercial, industrial
and residential customers in deregulated states. The
company was founded in December 2002 to capitalize on
the market opportunity presented by the deregulation
of retail energy markets. In April 2006, Lake Capital made a strategic investment in Hudson Energy Services to grow the company into a leading, multi-state retail energy marketer. Hudson seeks to capitalize on the positive industry dynamics supporting the deregulation of the electricity and natural gas markets. The company’s service offering and geographic coverage will be expanded through organic and acquisition-based growth initiatives to develop additional products and to enter new deregulated markets. Hudson Energy Services is headquartered in Suffern, New York, with an office in Irving, Texas.
intraFUSION™ provides turnkey management services to physicians who administer outpatient infusion therapies within their practice. From the initial set-up and staffing of the infusion center to billing, collections, materials management services, and more, this unique service allows doctors to practice medicine and focus more on patient care instead of running a business.In July 2008, Lake Capital made a strategic investment in intraFUSION to support the company’s ongoing growth plans. As a single-source manager for all aspects of office-based infusion services, intraFUSION leads the way in outpatient infusion management by affording a higher level of patient care while creating a new source of revenue for physicians. intraFUSION is headquartered in Houston, TX
MedErgy HealthGroup
is a healthcare communications organization that blends
strategy, science, and creative to ensure promising
products become commercially successful brands. The
company's strengths include Strategic Planning (strategic
mapping, core message development, integrated communication
strategies and solutions), Market Conditioning (opinion
leader relationships, publication planning and execution,
educational content development and execution), and
Brand Actualization (positioning/core branding, brand
naming/identity, lifecycle promotion from launch going
forward). MedErgy HealthGroup has two operating agencies,
MedErgy Marketing and SciFluent Communications, a
separate entity that focuses primarily on medical
education.
MediaWhiz is a leading online performance marketing company. Founded in 2001, MediaWhiz has emerged as a market leader in lead generation, affiliate marketing, email marketing, search engine marketing and other online media services. The company is benefiting from advertisers' increasing focus on performance-based marketing solutions that provide an immediate return on investment. In August 2005, Lake Capital made its initial investment in MediaWhiz. In March 2006, MediaWhiz merged with Global Resource Systems, which significantly increased the company's capability in email and affiliate marketing, among other areas. In November 2006, MediaWhiz acquired Text Link Ads, a leading provider of text link ads and related services, to broaden the company's display ad services division, and Monetizeit, one of the industry's largest vertically-focused lead generation companies, to deepen MediaWhiz's expertise in lead generation. MediaWhiz is headquartered in New York, New York, with offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Plantation, Florida.
In July 2005, Lake Capital acquired the SIRVA Logistics business assets from North American Van Lines, Inc., a subsidiary of SIRVA, Inc. (NYSE: SIR), and renamed the company NAL Worldwide. The NAL team and Lake Capital seek to expand the scope of services and broaden the geography of NAL Worldwide, through organic as well as acquisition-enhanced means. NAL Worldwide, formerly known as SIRVA Logistics, has been providing value-added supply chain services to Fortune 100 and other leading companies since 1988. The company's portfolio of inventory management and logistics services is delivered by an experienced force of more than 600 associates. The company has its operational headquarters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, corporate headquarters in Addison, Illinois, and additional facilities across the U.S. NAL Worldwide expects to grow through both organic initiatives and the acquisition of complementary companies.
In March 2007, Lake Capital partnered with the management team of NetStar-1 to grow and enhance the company, a provider of technology and communication solutions to government and commercial clients. NetStar-1 is focused on technologies and solutions that are driven by the integration of data, voice, and video. The company's expertise in "convergence" has come from more than twenty years of work supporting IT applications and mission-critical environments. NetStar-1's engineers place a special emphasis on helping clients maximize their IT investment by designing, installing, and supporting technologies that deliver a variety of information types, such as Voice Over IP, Video Over IP, ATM, Optical, Wireless, and more. The company's solutions are designed and delivered through a staff of technology leaders who bring not only a thorough set of skills and experiences, but also customer-attentiveness and a commitment to meeting the expectations of NetStar-1's clients, business partners, and support staff.
Office Media Network (“OMN”) is the creator of a state-of-the-art communications service that delivers up-to-the-minute news and landlord-tenant messages through high definition digital flatscreens located in premier office buildings across the U.S. Developed in association with Dow Jones & Company, The Wall Street Journal Office Network responds to the needs of real estate owners and tenants, with advanced technology and world-class content, supported by OMN’s experienced management team and strong financial resources. Advertisers and marketers can use the Office Network to deliver high-impact, cost-effective advertising messages in heavy traffic areas, as well as showcase upcoming marketing events in upscale office buildings throughout the country. Lake Capital invested in OMN in November 2005. Trizec Properties began debuting this advanced network in top office buildings in New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Chicago in June 2006. This launch marked the first in a planned series of long-term agreements with prominent commercial property owners.
PhysioHealth is uniting with high quality, regional rehabilitation entrepreneurs with significant growth opportunities who want to continue to lead and grow their successful businesses. PhysioHealth’s first strategic partnership is with Dynamic Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Centers, a Delaware-based provider of physical and occupational therapy. Dynamic provides services to the patients of more than 800 physicians in two southeastern Pennsylvania and nine Delaware locations. The company’s clinics provide pre- and post-operative care and treatment for motor vehicle, industrial, sports and neurological-related injuries as well as orthopedic-related disorders and geriatric ailments. Dynamic’s primary referral sources include orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, physiatrists, occupational medicine specialists and general practitioners.
Lake Capital partnered with Rocky Whitehead, R.Ph., an industry veteran with more than 25 years experience, to build Ricetta Pharmacy Solutions, a leading multi-regional, long-term care pharmacy. Palombo's Med-Rite Pharmacy, a southern New Jersey-based provider of institutional pharmacy services, was the initiative's first strategic investment. Ricetta subsequently acquired North Carolina-based Southern Pharmacy Services as its second investment. Both Palombo's Med-Rite and Southern Pharmacy provide services to long-term care settings, including skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, group homes, and rehabilitation centers. The companies in the Ricetta network purchase and dispense prescription and non-prescription pharmaceuticals and provide client facilities with related management services, including automated medical record keeping, drug therapy evaluation, regulatory assistance, cost containment, and purchase economies.
Founded in 1989, Soil Safe is a market-leading provider of value-added treatment, recycling, and beneficial re-use services for lightly contaminated soil in the Mid-Atlantic region and in California. Through the company’s treatment facilities in Logan, NJ; Brandywine, MD; and Adelanto, CA; Soil Safe processes and recycles non-hazardous soil generated from a variety of public infrastructure, commercial, industrial, and residential construction projects. The company provides an environmentally-friendly landfill alternative for construction contractors, development firms, and industrial companies, which are often required by regulation to remove and properly dispose of hydrocarbon-contaminated soil prevalent in construction and brownfield redevelopment projects. In August 2008 Lake Capital made a strategic investment in Soil Safe and will use the capital and strategic resources to continue to extend the scope and reach of its service offerings through growth initiatives and acquisitions. Soil Safe is the largest recycler of non-hazardous, lightly contaminated soil in the country, annually treating nearly two million tons of soil. Through its unmatched processing capacity, strategically located facilities, outstanding compliance record, and delivery of highly-reliable services, Soil Safe has built a leading market position. Over the past four years, the company has outperformed the rapidly-growing industry, increasing revenue at a compound annual growth rate of 30%.
Tolt Service Group is a single-source provider of managed services for all technology equipment within the four walls of retail locations throughout the United States. Tolt provides its customers, primarily large national and regional retailers, with a suite of field services designed to offer a single source solution for the installation, ongoing maintenance and disposition of technology hardware and software. By utilizing only company employed field technicians strategically located throughout the United States to provide comprehensive manufacturer-independent field service solutions, Tolt is able to provide its clients with better service at a lower cost. Lake Capital made a strategic investment in Tolt in May 2008. Management and Lake Capital seek to leverage and broaden the company’s network to better serve current and new customers in a variety of retail segments. Tolt is headquartered in Tempe, AZ.
Trailer Park is a full-service provider of creative marketing to clients in film, television, and home entertainment. It specializes in producing trailers, teasers, television spots, and print ads for major motion picture studios, along with music, graphics, title design, and advertising and editorial materials. The company maintains strong relationships with 20th Century Fox, Disney, New Line Cinema, and Paramount, as well as the other major studios. Lake Capital invested in Trailer Park in February 2005. In December 2005, Trailer Park merged with Creative Domain, the leading provider of creative marketing services to studio clients for home entertainment products, including movies being released on DVD and videogames. In July 2007, Trailer Park merged with Art Machine, a leading creative marketing firm focused on print media, forming the largest single-source provider of diverse entertainment marketing services in Hollywood. Trailer Park is headquartered in Hollywood.
Vestcom International Inc. is the leading provider of unit pricing printing and fulfillment services for some of the nation's top grocery, drug, and mass merchant chains. The company's services include processing, digital printing, electronic presentment, and on-time distribution of in-store retail communications with variable data, such as shelf unit price labels, in-store signage, ad tags, and loyalty cards. The company's products are found at a retailer's shelf-edge and typically contain relevant SKU information, including price, price per unit, form description, and bar code. Vestcom's products and services benefit retailers by reducing labor costs and providing efficiency to the process of delivering consistently accurate pricing data to the store shelf, which may be updated as often as 5,000 to 7,000 times each week in a single store, resulting in more than 100 million price/promotion updates per week being processed by Vestcom through its nine production facilities located across the United States.
VFM Interactive is the leading end-to-end provider of online media production and distribution solutions for the hotel and travel industry. VFM helps hotel and travel companies enhance their online marketing through rich visual content including still images, videos, 360º virtual tours and Flash presentation. VFM’s Vscape® platform allows hotels to manage and distribute their rich media content on the industry’s largest and fastest-growing distribution network of more than 25,000 websites where consumers most often research and purchase travel products. This network includes online travel agencies, travel suppliers, search portals and Global Distribution Systems such as Travelocity, Orbitz, Priceline, TripAdvisor, American Airlines, Yahoo!, SideStep, Sabre Travel Network, Galileo and Worldspan. VFM’s Vscape media distribution platform is utilized by more than 35,000 hotels from dozens of major hotel chains and resorts from brands and management companies including Best Western, Choice, Crowne Plaza, Hilton, Holiday Inn, Interstate, La Quinta, Marriott, Outrigger, Radisson, Regent, Sheraton, Sol Meliá, W, Westin and Wyndham.
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