Investment:
Japonica offered to inject capital to become the largest and controlling
shareholder.
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| UGLC
Description: An extraordinarily diversified UGLC, suffering
from a loss of passion for innovation and performance, with operations
in food, consumer products, chemicals, construction products, commodities,
in almost all stages of the beginning to end-consumer supplier chain. |
| Global
Reach: This UGLC had major sales and manufacturing operations
throughout the world having grown aggressively through regional
acquisitions of leading brands across a wide spectrum of industries,
with over one-third of its sales and over one-half of its profit
outside home US markets. Approximately 40,000 employees. |
| “Perfectly
Aligned” Relationships: Japonica’s restructuring
offer included building “perfectly aligned” relationships
with its co-investors and other key relationships, as well as absorbing
all restructuring offer expenses, despite offers by co-investors
to share in expenses. |
| Japonica
Creating Value: Japonica offered, with the support of leading
shareholders, to inject capital into this UGLC creating value through
a comprehensive restructuring and new leadership. |
| Discovering
Value: Japonica assembled a team of approximately 40 entrepreneurs
and niche specialists who worked for almost 8 months discovering
value gaps based on hidden nuggets of value and transformational
business plans. |
| Co-Investor
Creating Value: Japonica co-investors created value primarily
in the global capital markets sector with investment judgments,
intelligence, networking, and communications. |
