Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated was founded in 1940 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. As of May 10, 2010, Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated was taken private. The company was formerly known as Consolidated Mercantile Corporation and changed its name to Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated in October 1998. Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated does not have significant operations. Previously, the company involved in the manufacture and import of leather and fabric upholstered furniture; and manufacture and distribution of protective packaging products primarily in the United States.

Sand Aire was created in 1996 to manage the assets of Sir James Scott's family, earned upon the sale of Provincial Insurance, a company he founded in 1903. Then in 2006, Sand Aire merged with Northbridge, another UK wealth management firm. Today Sand Aire is jointly owned by its founding family, employees, and the founding shareholders of Northbridge. Sand Aire specializes in strategic wealth management primarily for families, trusts, and charities. It offers investment, wealth administration, and consultancy services to clients who typically have more than $40 million to invest, along with a desire to build their financial assets across generations.

River Cities Capital Funds was founded in 1994 and has over $300 million under management. River Cities Capital Funds invests mostly in middle stage companies located in the Midwest and Southeast. River Cities Capital Funds invests venture capital in companies engaged primarily in technology, health care, and consumer and business services in the Midwest and Southeastern US. Portfolio companies include online book distributor Atomic Dog Publishing and software developer Manta Media, and online data recovery provider EVault. Investment partners include Austin Ventures, Fifth Third Bancorp, and Finova.

Founder and CEO Tom Gores, who started Platinum Equity in 1995, is the brother of Alec Gores, who founded another investment firm, Gores Technology Group. Platinum Equity typically seeks to acquire private companies, public firms that want to become private, and units that large corporations are looking to divest; these companies usually have established brands and customer bases, and most importantly, recurring revenues. Platinum Equity also looks for acquisitions as strategic add-ons to its portfolio companies, which have operations worldwide. It focuses on such sectors as manufacturing, distribution, technology services, and communications.

Lightyear Capital and its affiliated investment funds specialize in providing buyout and growth capital to companies across the financial services industry. Founded in 2000, Lightyear Capital has managed approximately $3 billion in committed capital. With its Principals averaging over 25 years of experience across the financial services industry, Lightyear Capital is ideally positioned to respond to the challenges and opportunities of financial services investing. Lightyear Capital has fully invested The Lightyear Fund, L.P. and is currently investing Lightyear Fund II, L.P.

Texas Pacific Land Trust was created in 1888 as a result of the bankruptcy of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. Holders of Texas and Pacific Railway Company bonds received 3.5 million acres of land in Texas which had been earned by the railroad and pledged as security against bonds. The bondholders created the Trust and converted bonds to shares of proprietary interest in the Trust. The Trust was created to manage and sell the land. Today the Trust is one of the largest landowners in Texas with around 965,000 acres located in twenty different counties. Texas Pacific Land Trust derives revenue from all avenues of managing the land, i.e. oil and gas royalties, grazing leases, easements, sundry and specialty leases, and land sales. The Trust has a perpetual oil and gas royalty interest in some 387,000 acres.

Oxford Technology Management was founded by Lucius Cary, and since 1983 has specialised in making and managing investments in start-up and early stage technology-based businesses with high growth prospects. The OTM team are all scientists or engineers by background, and understanding the technology is the starting point for any investment that we may make. The Investment policy of Oxford Technology Management is to construct a portfolio of investments with the following characteristics: unlisted, UK based, technology businesses, investments typically in the range of £100,000 - £2,000,000, although it can then invest similar amounts in subsequent rounds, in most cases located within easy reach of Oxford to allow a more 'hands on' management strategy. It is expected that approximately half of the funds will be invested in early stage companies (those which have achieved some initial sales) and the balance in start-up companies which are at an earlier stage.

Charter Oak Equity and its predecessor funds have invested in private equity since 1992. These little acorns might grow into mighty oaks too! Charter Oak Private Equity targets small and middle-market companies. Its investment vehicles, Charter Oak Capital Partners, Charter Oak Equity, and Charter Oak International Partners, invest in the health care, chemicals, consumer products, and industrial manufacturing industries. Investments include Daisy Manufacturing (the air rifle maker) and Aylward Enterprises (pharmaceuticals packaging). The company's Revere Industries holds several of its industrial manufacturing companies. Charter Oak Partners still exists as a hedge fund manager focused on long/short equity.

LMS Capital plc was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in San Francisco, California. LMS Capital plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. The firm seeks to invest in mid venture, late venture, middle market, mature, turnarounds, and buyouts. It makes balance sheet investments. It typically invests in energy and industrial, applied technology, media and leisure, healthcare and medical sectors, consumer services, software and services, commercial and professional services, and financial services. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Canada, United Kingdom, Israel, and European Developed Markets. It invests in public and private companies. The firm seeks to hold a board seat in its portfolio companies and actively manages significant stakes in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests between £5 million ($9.98 million) and £15 million ($29.93 million) in companies with an enterprise value between £10 million ($19.95 million) and £50 million ($99.77 million), minimum revenue of £5 ($9.98 million), and minimum EBITDA of £1 million ($1.995 million).

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL or the Company) is a holding company listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 15 October 1956. GBL strives to stimulate and promote the growth of a valuable and balanced portfolio of industrial investments, focusing on a small number of major companies, operating in a diversified range of sectors, in which it is able to play its role as a strategic shareholder. The Company’s portfolio consists of four participations, namely Bertelsmann, Total, Suez and Imerys. TotalFina Elf formed by the successive consolidations of the Total, PetroFina and Elf Aquitaine groups, TotalFinaElf is a global oil and gas group and a major player in the chemicals sector. Activities TotalFina Elf is one of the major integrated oil companies. Its activities are based in more than 100 countries and cover the entire oil industry chain, from upstream - exploration, development and production of oil and gas – to downstream - refining and distribution of oil products and international trading of crude oil and refined oil products. TotalFina Elf is also an important operator in the chemicals industry. Upstream, TotalFina Elf’s hydrocarbon reserves amount to some 11.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Present in the liquefied natural gas industry, TotalFina Elf is also expanding its activities to related market segments such as gas distribution and electricity generation. Downstream, the group has a refining capacity of 2.3 million barrels a day and sales of 3.7 million barrels a day of refined products. TotalFinaElf has interests in 27 refineries and operates a network of some 16,700 service stations under the Total, Fina and Elf brands, primarily in Europe.

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