In addition to the standard list of ideal business criteria, we like

• Manufacturing companies of moderate technology

• Companies that have plateaued (deliberately or inadvertently) well below their potential

• Threshold companies that need to rethink their whole business and organization if they are to move up in scale successfully

• Companies and managements who strongly desire to become cornerstones around which we can build with them a larger industrial group with complementary acquisitions as well as accelerated internal development

• Companies who can profit from our principals' operating and financial knowledge, widespread experiences and contacts domestically and in the international business, trading and governmental arenas.

• Divestments of good, solid businesses whose small size, need for attention, lower technology or moderate growth no longer fit the parent company's strategy

• Arrangements in which competent and ambitious managements want to become equity partners with us for the long term development of the business

• Divestments of U.S. units by foreign ownership groups

• Family businesses built on quality, personal reputations and dedication to customers where the retiring owners want to see these traditions perpetuated

• Extraordinarily talented, experienced and successful people who want to leave large corporate posts to pursue their ideas with us in an entrepreneurial environment.