Friend Skoler & Co

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), is the leading manufacturer and marketer of value-oriented products for the consumer lawn and garden care and insect control segments in the U.S. The company's household brands include Hot Shot ®, Cutter ® and Repel ®. The company's lawn and garden brands include Spectracide ®, Garden Safe ® and Real-Kill ® in the controls category as well as Sta-Green ®, Vigoro ®, SchultzT, Peters ®, Bandini ® and Best ® brands in the lawn and garden fertilizer and organic growing media categories.

Founded in 1953, Hopkins is a leading designer, manufacturer, distributor and marketer of innovative towing products and functional accessories for the automotive and recreational vehicle aftermarkets. Headquartered in Emporia, Kansas, Hopkins also maintains locations in Carson, California; Juarez, Mexico; and Ningbo, China.

Founded in 1998, Friend Skoler & Co. is a private equity firm that invests in leading companies in the smaller end of the middle market in partnership with management. FSC typically invests between $10 million and $40 million of equity per transaction and manages Friend Skoler Equity Investors, L.P., a private equity fund with $231 million of capital commitments. Friend Skoler is headquartered in Saddle Brook, NJ.

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