Advantage Solutions
Advantage Solutions is a leading provider of outsourced solutions to consumer goods companies and retailers.
The company offers sales and marketing services built over multiple decades – essential, business-critical services like headquarter sales, retail merchandising, in-store sampling, digital commerce and shopper marketing.
For brands and retailers of all sizes, Advantage helps get the right products on the shelf (whether physical or digital) and into the hands of consumers, however they shop. Advantage uses a scaled platform to innovate as a trusted partner with its clients, solving problems to increase their efficiency and effectiveness.
Case Studies
Anchor Glass
Anchor is one of three major US manufacturers of food and beverage glass containers that together account for 90% of US production.
Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, the company focuses on the growing and high-margin premium specialty glass segments of the market, such as craft beer and liquor. It employs approximately 2,000 people, with six manufacturing facilities located in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, New York and Oklahoma.
Arthēa
Arthēa (formerly PDC Brands) is a rapidly growing beauty and personal care company with a diverse portfolio of category leading brands in the mass channel.
The company's portfolio of products spans across bath and body, wellness, hair care, beauty, and fragrance and can be found at major retailers throughout the US, UK and in 60 additional markets globally. Key brands within the portfolio include Dr Teals, Cantu and Eylure, all of which are dominant players in the respective segments, driven by strong brand affinity, product quality, and consumer loyalty.
Asplundh
Asplundh is a 90 year old family owned and managed business that is the market leader in providing vegetation management and other services to major utilities in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
The company has an exceptional long-term track record and its services are both recurring and essential to the continued function of national power grids.
The company is headquartered in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania U.S. and employs over 35,000 professionals globally.
Authentic Brands Group
Founded in 2010, Authentic Brands Group is the world’s leading owner of sports, lifestyle and entertainment intellectual property.
The company acquires and owns iconic brands, repositions them for long-term growth and partners with top-tier operators to scale globally, all while delivering bold storytelling and marketing that brings each brand to life.
Authentic owns more than 50 global brands, generating approximately $32 billion in annual systemwide retail sales. These brands have a significant presence in 150 countries, with more than 29,000 freestanding stores and shop-in-shops, as well as 500,000 points of sale worldwide.
Bamboo Insurance
Based in Midvale, Utah, Bamboo Insurance is a data-enabled insurance distribution platform providing homeowners’ insurance and related products to the residential property market in California and Texas
Bamboo uses a differentiated underwriting model and proprietary technology platform to underwrite and manage policies for homeowners and has delivered strong growth, high retention and superior loss ratios compared with peers.
Bruin Capital
Bruin is a holding company which invests in and builds leading sports, media, and technology businesses.
Bruin works with management teams to build best-in-class technology, sports, media, entertainment, and marketing companies. The company was founded and is led by George Pyne, an experienced sports and media executive, and uses its team's deep operational expertise and capabilities to help achieve full potential of its assets.
Bruin companies operate across five continents and engage billions of consumers.
C1
C1 (formerly ConvergeOne), headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, is a leading provider of collaboration and enterprise IT solutions to middle and large enterprises in North America.
C1 offers a suite of customised end-to-end collaboration, contact centre, enterprise networking, data centre, cloud, and security offerings and maintenance and support services. Their target customers are mid-sized to large enterprises that need help with designing, implementing, and managing their own collaboration and networking solutions which can be delivered on-premise and in private, hybrid, and public cloud environments.
CFGI
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, CFGI serves the Office of the CFO as an independent advisor to assist with complex accounting and process improvement needs.
This includes technical accounting support, financial planning and analysis, capital markets and transaction advisory, business process transformation, risk management, valuation, and tax advisory services for clients from a wide range of sectors. Operating without the restrictions created by auditor independence regulations, the company serves over 2,500 clients nationally with a team of over 850 professionals.
DistroKid
Founded in 2013, DistroKid is the world’s leading music distributor, providing independent musicians with the tools to release and share their music worldwide.
Beyond music and video distribution, DistroKid offers a broad suite of services including instant mastering, direct-to-fan experiences, on-demand and custom merchandise, helping millions of artists connect with listeners around the world.
Epicor
Founded in 1972 and based in Texas, Epicor is a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth and profitability.
Epicor is an acknowledged leader in the industrial end markets it operates in, including manufacturing, distribution, retail and services where it provides software such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), retail management systems (RMS) and supply chain management (SCM). The company serves approximately 23,000 customers in over 150 countries.
ExamWorks
Founded in 2008, ExamWorks is a leading global, diversified platform that provides independent medical examinations and related services, including peer review, case management, and document management, among other services.
The company's clients include property and casualty insurance carriers, law firms, third-party claim administrators and government agencies that use independent services to confirm the veracity of claims by sick or injured individuals and to facilitate the delivery and quality of cost–effective care for workers' compensation, automotive, personal injury liability and disability insurance coverage.
ExamWorks helps clients to manage costs and enhance their risk management and compliance processes by verifying the validity, nature, cause and extent of claims, identifying fraud and providing fast, efficient and quality services.
Gaming Laboratories International
Headquartered in Lakewood, New Jersey, Gaming Laboratories International (“GLI”) is the global leader in testing, certification and cybersecurity services to the global gaming industry.
GLI provides suppliers, operators, and regulators with expert guidance for navigating the future of gaming and ensuring gaming innovations meet regulatory standards with confidence. Since 1989, GLI has certified nearly 2 million items and has tested equipment for more than 710 jurisdictions. GLI has a global network of laboratory locations across six continents, with U.S. and international accreditations for compliance with ISO/IEC standards for technical competence in the gaming, wagering, and lottery industries.
Majesco
Headquartered in New Jersey, Majesco is a global leader in software solutions for property & casualty and life, annuity & health insurance markets.
In 2025, Majesco acquired Vitech, a provider of cloud-based financial administration solutions and a CVC portfolio company, to create a new pro forma entity. The combined business provides technology and expertise that helps insurers modernise, innovate and build the future of their business at speed and scale. The business works with over 200 insurance companies worldwide to optimise the management of policies, billing, claims and general administration as well as consultancy services.
Mediaocean
Mediaocean is a leader in global advertising technology, helping the world's top agencies and marketers manage $200 billion in annualised media spend.
The company's omnichannel platform serves as an industry system of record with trusted, independent solutions for media management, intelligence, and finance, enabling its customers to achieve business outcomes more efficiently and effectively.
MedRisk
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, MedRisk is a leading provider of managed physical medicine services for the workers' compensation industry in the U.S.
The company delivers clinically superior patient outcomes via the coordination and active management of physical medicine services for workers' compensation patients. Today, Medrisk manages physical therapy, occupational therapy, and chiropractic treatments for more than 500,000 injured workers annually through a nationwide network across 49 states and Washington, D.C.
Petco
Petco is a specialty retailer of pet food and supplies in North America, with over 1,500 stores across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Mexico.
Founded in 1965, Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and Petco partners. The company has consistently set new standards in pet care while delivering comprehensive pet wellness products, services and solutions, and creating communities that deepen the pet-pet parent bond.
Through its fully-integrated, omnichannel ecosystem, Petco provides over 24 million total active customers with a suite of holistic pet health and wellness offerings, including merchandise, companion animals, grooming, training and a growing network of on-site veterinary hospitals and mobile veterinary clinics.
The selected companies are presented solely to illustrate the types of investments that may be made by CVC for one or more strategies, and are not representative of all transactions of any given strategy. References to a particular investment should not be considered a recommendation by CVC. The investments presented were made under market, economic and supply-demand conditions which may not be replicated, and future investments may have characteristics that differ from the case studies presented here. Consequently, there can be no assurance that CVC funds will be able to invest in similar opportunities in the future. It should not be assumed that the case studies presented here or that any investments made in the future were or will be profitable.