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Investment ManagementConnecticut, United States11-50 Employees
Heartwood Partners is a middle-market private equity firm based in Norwalk, Connecticut. Founded in 1982, it focuses on founder, family and management-held businesses across food, agriculture, specialty chemicals, niche manufacturing, packaging, and industrial and consumer services markets. The firm employs a lower-leverage, current cash yield approach intended to partner with continuing management, combining a conservative capital structure with strategic execution to support long-term growth, including organic and acquisition-driven expansion into new products, services and end markets. In-house Value Creation Specialists provide expertise in areas such as ecommerce and digital marketing, human capital and organizational design, and IT improvement and acquisition integration to support portfolio companies. Heartwood Partners manages over $1.7 billion in investments and commitments and has completed more than 100 platform and add-on acquisitions, investing from Heartwood Partners IV, LP.