| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Private equity, Consumer products |
| Predecessor | The Shansby Group |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Key people | Charles H. Esserman, John Kenney, Hadley Mullin, Jamie O'Hara, Alexander Panos |
| Products | Growth capital focused on consumer brands |
| Total assets | $1.7 billion |
| Employees | 20+ |
| Website | www.tsgconsumer.com |
TSG Consumer Partners is one of the largest and oldest private equity firms focused on growth capital investments in middle-market companies in the branded consumer products sector. The firm, founded in 1987, was among the first private equity firms to invest exclusively in consumer product companies.[1]
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TSG has used growth equity in a number of categories, including natural and organic foods, functional food and beverages, ethnic food and refrigerated entrées, orphan brands in personal care and household lines, super-premium, and personal care products.
Among TSG's most notable investments historically have included well known brands such as Famous Amos Cookies, Spic and Span, Prestige Brands, Energy Brands (Vitamin Water), Voss, Pureology, Comet, Chloraseptic, Met-Rx, Smart Balance, Arrowhead Mills, and Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation.
Current investments include CytoSport, DenTek Oral Care, Perricone MD Cosmeceuticals, Sexy Hair, e.l.f., PopChips and Yard House USA, Inc.
The firm, which is based in San Francisco, was founded in 1987 as a subsidiary of Montgomery Securities, known as the Montgomery Consumer Fund.
In 1988, the firm's founders, J. Gary Shansby and Charles H. Esserman, completed a spinout of the firm from Montgomery to form an independent firm known as The Shansby Group.[2] Esserman became CEO in 2005 at which point the firm changed its name to TSG Consumer Partners.[3]
Shansby left the firm in 2005 to focus on philanthropic projects as well as health issues.[1]
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