Onex Gets Made Up With Purchase from Brockway

Buyouts news debriefs with the executives at Brockway Moran & Partners, confirming that the private equity firm has signed an agreement to sell BMP/CEI Holdings Inc., the parent of Cosmetic Essence Inc., a leading provider of supply chain management services to the personal care and household products industries in a transaction valued at $245 million. The transaction will result in a more than 5.5x return on investment for Brockway Moran. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2004.

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“We recapped Cosmetic Essence in March 2001, and since that time we have had four add-on acquisitions that helped expand what we were able to offer our customers. During that time CE has more than doubled in size from a revenue perspective and increased EBITDA by 3x,” said Richard Wandoff, a Managing Director with Brockway Moran.

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