Second City Capital
Partners acquired a controlling interest from the
founders of Rockford Corporation in July of 2006.
Current management and industry veterans such as Lorne
Stoppler were co-investors in the transaction.
Rockford Corporation is a
well known medium and large diameter gas pipeline
contractor based in North Plains Oregon with operations
in California and Washington. With successful projects
completed across the Western United States, Alaska,
Texas and New Mexico the company has, over 40 years,
built a reputation for professionalism, quality, and
on-time, on-budget projects. In addition to pipeline
construction the company is involved in pipeline
maintenance, directional drilling, and facilities
construction. As a rapidly growing, profitable company
Rockford will be looking for acquisitions and/or
partnership opportunities in the U.S. and Canada in the
coming months ahead.
See
www.rockford-corp.com
for more information on Rockford.
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Second City Capital Partners acquired a controlling
interest in Greening Donald Co. Ltd as part of a
management buy-out from the parent company, Budd Canada,
a division of Thyssen Krupp AG. A broad cross-section
of the incumbent management group at Greening Donald are
co-investors in the new entity.
Greening Donald is based in Orangeville, Ontario and is
the world’s largest supplier of airbag inflator filters.
It supplies more than 30 types of airbag filter
components to customers in North America, Europe and
Asia. It has an exclusive supply contract with Autoliv,
Inc. the pioneer in airbag systems and the premier
supplier of automotive safety equipment in the world.
See
www.greendon.com
for more information on Greening Donald.
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The Teal-Jones Group,
headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, is a
privately-held niche coastal forest products
manufacturer that services local and world markets. It
focuses primarily on solid wood products including,
shakes and shingles, lumber (including small diameter
sawmilling) and custom cut specialty items for the high
value Japanese markets. The Teal-Jones Group completed
the purchase of a Vancouver Island Tree Farm License
from TimberWest Forest Corp with acquisition financing
provided by a lending syndicate including Second City
Capital Partners. The aggregate transaction value was
$30m. Our investment was refinanced in December
2004.
See
www.tealjones.com for
more information on the Teal-Jones Group
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Softchoice Corporation (SO.TO) is
a publicly traded distributor of software. Softchoice
is the largest software direct marketer in Canada and is rapidly expanding its presence in
the United States. Softchoice
achieved the designation by Deloitte and CIBC as one of
Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies in 2003, 2004
and again in 2005. Headquartered in Toronto, Softchoice
currently has 650 employees operating from more than 30
branches across the U.S. and Canada
See
www.softchoice.com
for more information on Softchoice Corporation.
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Computer Access Technology
Corporation (NASDAQ: CATZ) provides digital data test
and analysis tools for communication protocols spanning
computer, storage and network markets. The Company was
launched in 1992 and went public in November of 2000.
CATC has over 11 years of experience developing,
manufacturing and marketing advanced protocol analysis
expert systems for established and emerging digital
communications standards. CATC was acquired by LeCroy
Corporation in September 2004.
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BOS Rentals Ltd. is a private, Calgary-based
services company that rents large equipment to the oil
and gas industry. Its equipment removes solids and other
particles from drilling fluids on their return to the
surface so they may be recycled for use in the drilling
operation. The equipment places greater emphasis on
water conservation and the environment.
See
www.bosrentals.com
for more information on BOS Rentals.
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ID Biomedical (IDB.TO) is a
Vancouver-based biopharmaceutical company traded on
NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange. ID Biomedical is
focused on the development of proprietary vaccines
including those based on its proteosome intranasal
adjuvant delivery technology. IDB
has two other major products, FluInsure and StreptAvax.
FluInsure is IDB’s lead pipeline candidate. FluInsure
is an intranasal vaccine for influenza with particular
application to the pediatric market. FluInsure has
several potentially important advantages over
traditional injectable flu vaccines including ease of
delivery (no injections), potentially increased
efficacy, ease of manufacture and stability. In
December 2004, IDB was acquired by GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK)
for $ 1.5 Billion.
See
www.gsk.com
for more information on ID Biomedical Corporation.
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Cinch Energy Corp. (CNH.TO) is a Canadian gas and natural gas liquids exploration and production Company. The Company has a large, focused land position in the Chime, Kakwa and Musreau areas of north western Alberta as well as several other land holdings in Alberta
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Bennett Environmental Inc. is a
recognized North American leader in high temperature
treatment services for the remediation of contaminated
soils and other PCB contaminated construction debris and
provides thermal solutions to contamination problems
throughout Canada and the U.S.
See
www.bennettenv.com
for more information on Bennett Environmental Inc.
