Bravo Equity Partners

ABOUT

INVESTMENT STRATEGY

Bravo's focus is on companies that are well-positioned to benefit from the fast-growing U.S. Hispanic demographic and considers investments across a range of industries. Bravo's investment strategy is flexible and designed to address a company's growth potential and fill capital voids in complex situations, while focusing on disciplined value driven fundamentals.

Primarily, Bravo seeks to invest in companies benefiting from the favorable growth trends of the U.S. Hispanic population including population growth and consumer spending growth. Bravo works with companies with attractive business characteristics and that can benefit from the Hispanic growth. Bravo's principals have unique experience in working with companies addressing the Hispanic opportunity.

Bravo realizes that companies racing to meet the new business needs arising from the growth of the Hispanic market need additional capital and experienced partners that can provide assistance. Bravo investment professionals seek to satisfy this demand by understanding the Hispanic opportunity and complex corporate transactions. Transactions include growth financings, buyouts and recapitalizations, usually representing an equity investment of $5 million to $20 million in companies with yearly revenues of $5 million to $100 million. We execute larger transactions with the participation of co-investors and other business relationships. The Bravo Team has strong mergers and acquisitions experience to help portfolio companies with add-on acquisitions and also to assist in the sale by which we will ultimately exit our investment.

Why invest in the hispanic market?

The U.S. Hispanic market exhibits favorable characteristics for private equity investing. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Hispanic population is the largest minority group in the U.S. having doubled since 1990 to more than 42 million people. This group will continue to grow at a rate three times faster than the general non-Hispanic population and has become the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world. Contributing to this growth is the 1,951 mile U.S./Mexico border, which is one of the busiest borders in the world. Hispanic consumer buying power is driven by its young population with an average age of 26 years compared to 37 years for non-Hispanics¹. Hispanic buying power is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2008 and is growing at 7.7% per annum or three times faster that the national rate. Bravo is uniquely positioned to capitalize on this distinct market.