Vista International Packaging, LLC

Investment Date
June 2004

Situation Type
Corporate Divestiture

Keystone partnered with the management of Vista to acquire this non-core business out of Hormel Foods (NYSE:HRL). Speed and certainty to close, and our long-term hold period, were of paramount importance to Hormel, and Keystone closed the complex transaction in approximately 30 days.

Headquarters
Kenosha, WI

Leadership
David Hagman (CEO)
Tom Danneker (President)

Products
Artificial meat casings (including fibrous and collagen-based) and other related packaging

Customer Base
Leading meat processors and food manufacturers

Interesting Fact
Vista sources millions of pounds of meat packaging each year from all over the world, including Finland, Japan, South Africa, and Spain

Converters of other niche packaging products serving the meat processing / general food processing industries

Suppliers of other related consumable products to the meat processing / general food processing industries

Keystone Capital Contact
Scott L. Gwilliam

“KEYSTONE HAS A UNIQUE APPROACH TO THE INVESTMENT BUSINESS OF USING ITS OWN CAPITAL, TAKING A LONG TERM VIEW OF BUILDING THE BUSINESS AND SUPPORTING THE OPERATIONS, EVEN WHEN THE RETURN ON ITS INVESTMENT COULD BE ADVERSELY IMPACTED.”

- LARRY RICHMAN, CEO, THE PRIVATE BANK

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