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).  Visit us at www.addisonsearch.com.

Driveline has a national network of more than 13,000 professional merchandising employees and 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 80,000 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.

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 is headquartered outside of Minneapolis, with offices in Philadelphia, Mooresville, North Carolina, and the Boise, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco metro areas.  Visit us at www.drivelineretail.com.

FishNet Security is a national leader in Information Security solutions, integration, and professional and managed services. Since its founding in 1996, FishNet Security continues to be a market leader in helping businesses, government, educational institutions, and other organizations define the true risks in their environment and deploy the right solutions and technologies to ensure the continued success of day-to-day operations and objectives. With offices spanning coast-to-coast, located in 25 US cities, and a 15,000 square foot Security Operations Center (SOC) near its headquarters in Kansas City, FishNet Security is able to provide industry leading engineers, consultants, forensic teams, educators, and account managers to all facets of businesses and organizations throughout the United States.

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.  Visit us at www.fishnetsecurity.com.

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.  Visit us at www.hudsonenergyservices.com.

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.

Lake Capital backed MedErgy's president, Julia Ralston, an industry veteran with international experience supporting the launch of pharmaceutical products, to found and build the organization. MedErgy HealthGroup is headquartered in Yardley, Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia.  Visit us at www.medergygroup.com.

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.   Visit us at www.mediawhiz.com.

NetStar-1 is a provider of technology and communication solutions driven by the integration of data, voice, and video to government and commercial clients.  The company’s expertise in “convergence” has come from more than twenty years of work supporting IT applications and mission-critical environments.  

In March 2007, Lake Capital partnered with the management team of NetStar-1 to grow and enhance the company’s service offerings. 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.

NetStar-1 is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, with offices in Englewood, Colorado, Raleigh, North Carolina and Knoxville, Tennessee.  Visit us at www.netstar-1.com.

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.  Visit us at www.officemedia.com.

Founded in 2003, OneWed.com began as a general online wedding planning resource for brides. Seizing a market opportunity to seamlessly connect informed, qualified brides with local wedding vendors, OneWed re-launched in October 2008 with the largest, most comprehensive list of over 200,000 local wedding professionals--from photographers and florists to reception sites and cake bakers--and the functionality to rate and provide detailed reviews of all vendors. The new re-branded OneWed, offers honest, irreverent bridal advice, bridal communities, a gallery of wedding styles and designers, real wedding stories from OneWed members, the OneWed Vendor Network, and an online store. OneWed boasts 500,000 monthly brides viewing over 3 million pages.

For today's internet savvy bride, OneWed is the complete online bridal resource with all the choices, tools, community and honesty needed to plan her perfect day....spreading the love from Newlyweds to Nearlyweds. Visit us at www.OneWed.com.

 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.  Visit us at dynamicpt.com.

Founded in 2004 by Eric Casaburi, Retrofitness was created to provide an exciting and inviting environment fitting all levels of fitness enthusiasts. Each Retrofitness location is equipped with a full service fitness center, including 50 plus pieces of equipment supplied by the leading manufacturer of equipment supply, Life Fitness. In addition to equipment, members can enjoy a RetroBlends Juice Bar, personal training services, tanning and a retro cardio movie theatre featuring famous 80’s flicks.

Lake Capital made a strategic investment in Retrofitness in August 2008. The capital will be used to continue nationwide expansion and growth initiatives. Since 2006, Retrofitness has been gaining momentum in the $15.9 billion fitness industry, having opened 39 clubs with an additional 80 in development, in just 30 months since Retrofitness began franchising. The partnership with Lake Capital will provide Retrofitness with the capital and access to resources to accelerate this rollout.  Visit us at www.retrofitness.net.

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.  Visit us at www.southrx.com.

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%.  Visit us at www.soilsafe.com.

SolutionSet (Formerly known as 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 SolutionSet.  Together with management, Lake Capital plans to build the business via acquisition and organic growth into a full-service, multi-channel direct marketing agency.

SolutionSet is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area, with offices in Chicago, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia and East Greenbush, New York.  Visit us at www.solutionset.com.

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.  Visit us at www.toltservicegroup.com.

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.

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.  Visit us at www.trailerpark.com.

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.

In April 2007, The Stephens Group, LLC, a Little Rock, Arkansas-based private equity firm, and Lake Capital Partners purchased a majority interest in Vestcom from the company’s management and Cornerstone Equity Partners.  The existing management team remains in place and has reinvested a significant portion of its ownership.  The transaction completes a recapitalization that positions the company to continue to expand its in-store marketing capabilities for its customers.

Vestcom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Visit us at www.vestcom.com

VFM Leonardo is the leading end-to-end provider of online media production and distribution solutions for the hotel and travel industry. VFM Leonardo helps hotel and travel companies enhance their online marketing through rich visual content including still images, videos, 360º virtual tours and Flash presentation. VFM Leonardo’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 Leonardo’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.

In April 2008, Lake Capital made a strategic investment in VFM Leonardo. VFM Leonardo plans to use the financing and strategic resources that Lake Capital brings to expand into complementary travel-related verticals and accelerate its growth in North America and overseas.  Visit us at vfmleonardo.com.