What’s Your Point B?

Business is a series of next steps of defining your goals and then setting a plan for achieving them.

But you know this because you’ve already been there.
It began the day you started your business.
And it’s continued with a string of milestones since.
Now you are the proud owner of a successful business.

But you know there’s another next step.

One that you can’t reach alone, so you are looking for a boost.
But not just anyone with a checkbook will do.
You need a collaborator, not a boss.
Someone whose interests are aligned with yours.
Someone to provide guidance and support.
Who can help you access new opportunities.
Someone who shares your entrepreneurial spirit.
You need someone to invest in your vision, not just your profits
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Welcome to

A Private Equity Investment Partnership Firm

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What’s Your Point B?

Build upon the success you’ve already achieved.

At Gallagher, we are a family-based private equity firm whose mission is to maximize the long-term value of targeted private equity partnerships.

We seek to partner with entrepreneurs who have a deep desire to take their business to the next level—who want to stay involved and run their day-to-day operations with the support of a great partner to help them manage the big picture.
Using only our own capital allows us the freedom and flexibility to be more invested in the entrepreneurs and businesses we seek as partners. It also allows us to bring more than just funding to the equation. For our partner businesses, we provide additional value through our strategic guidance, expertise in building businesses, our operational knowledge and our business instincts.
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By striving to create long-term value instead of short-term returns, we consistently turn our portfolio investments into enduring business success stories. For more than 35 years, we have used this model to establish a proven track record of taking good businesses and building them into companies of greater significance.

Our History

Our success story began with the 1986 acquisition of Applied Industrial Materials Corporation (AIMCOR) by our founder, Charlie Gallagher. He saw the unrealized business potential in what was, at the time, a $500 million division of International Minerals and Chemicals. Charlie’s strategies transformed the company, and in less than two years, he was able to pay down the transaction debt, buy out an existing outside investor group and generate significant earnings.

This began a series of new acquisitions focused on businesses with significant organic and add-on acquisition growth opportunity, and led to the family partnership’s establishment of a dedicated team at Gallagher Industries to acquire and build companies around Charlie Gallagher’s proven model.
We invest exclusively using funds from the Gallagher family and the Gallagher team. This allows us to maintain flexibility with our investments and lets us focus on aligning our capital structure with our management partners. It also means we don’t face pressure to exit partnerships arbitrarily to appease outside investors.
Through our extensive experience in finance, sales, marketing, administration, manufacturing and operations, we continue the legacy of producing significant shareholder value for ourselves and our management partners.
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Our Team

Tom Loftus | President

Since 1998, Tom has led the private equity activities for Gallagher, completing over 75 transactions. He currently oversees all of the firm’s active investments. His extensive business and financial knowledge are an invaluable part of our firm’s success in creating long-term value for our portfolio. Tom serves on the board of Event Rents USA, and previously was on the boards of VeloDyne, Environmental StoneWorks and Profile Products.
Prior to Gallagher, Tom was the director of business development for American Medserve (AMC), a consolidator of institutional pharmacies and a portfolio company of Golder, Thoma, Cressey and Rauner. In his three years at AMC, he was involved with more than 15 acquisitions, AMC’s initial public offering and the sale of the company.
Before moving to AMC, Tom was with Ernst & Young in Chicago for seven years, spending the last two years there as a manager in their mergers and acquisitions group where he provided advisory services to both financial and strategic buyers on more than 25 leveraged buyout transactions in a wide range of industries.
Tom currently is on the Escuela de Guadalupe board, and previously served on the Girls on the Run of the Rockies board. He is a CPA (inactive) and holds a B.B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame.

K.C. Gallagher | Chairman

K.C. has provided strategic oversight and direction for our firm since 1998, and is a lead investor and board member for Aventel Partners, a provider of private security solutions. He also serves on the board of Event Rents USA.
Previously, K.C. was the Chief Executive Officer of The Little Pub Company, owners and operators of over 20 Colorado-based-neighborhood restaurants/pubs and vice president and general manager of AIMCOR’s Terminals and Services division, a leading provider of bulk material handling services to U.S. and international refineries. Before AIMCOR, K.C. spent three years in sales and marketing for Profile Products. He began his career with ARCO in Los Angeles.
K.C. currently serves on the corporate boards of UMB Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: UMBF), UMB Bank Colorado, and Fry Reglet Corporation. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the University of Denver.
K.C. holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of San Diego and an MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.

Charlie Gallagher | Founder

Charlie Gallagher is the driving force behind the Gallagher investment model. It was his original vision and ability to bring a successful, long-term growth approach to private equity investing that has been the cornerstone of our firm’s success. He currently serves as an advisor to Gallagher.
Charlie’s distinguished career includes more than 50 years as an operator, entrepreneurial owner and private equity investor. He was inducted into the Colorado Business Hall of Fame in 2011.
Charlie is a member of The Tower Club and served on numerous boards including the Denver Art Museum, Denver Area Council Boy Scouts of America, Regis University, the Denver Chamber of Commerce, Colorado Concern, Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver Foundation, National Jewish Medical & Research Center, Colorado UpLIFT, ACE and Xavier University.

What’s Your Point B?

Benefit from knowledge and advice, not just an influx of capital.

At Gallagher, we’ve established a unique model for success built around a vision for a more entrepreneurial approach to private equity investment. It’s an approach that is only effective when applied to the right opportunities, which is why we’re selective about the businesses we contemplate partnering with, just as a business should be selective about the equity firms they consider. Because we focus on creating value through a long-term partnership, we look for opportunities that are a good fit for everyone involved.

Our Investment Philosophy

Our investment philosophy is founded on two core principles:

Establish a mutually beneficial partnership with successful entrepreneurial business owners.

Create value by generating long-term growth.

Key to our ability to succeed is applying our investment philosophy to an approach that’s based on providing operational guidance, not taking over managerial control. Ours is a model built around bringing our interests as investors and those of the business owner into alignment.
We aren’t looking to take control and manage daily operations, but rather to provide targeted strategic advice and financial support. Day-to-day operations remain with the established management team, while we focus on building strategies and opening doors to new business horizons through internal growth, capital investment and strategic acquisitions.
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We encourage our partners to apply the entrepreneurial thinking that initially led to their success and to act independently while driving daily operations. Our role is to serve as a resource for them by contributing higher-level strategic vision, tactical guidance and financial expertise. The exact nature of each partnership varies and is defined by the needs of the specific company.
Sometimes we may be more directly involved in operations at the request of management, and sometimes the best way we can add value is simply by getting out of the way.
Ours is a long-term approach where we typically target a partnership that lasts at least seven to 10 years. When we decide to sell, it’s because we and our management partners determine together that it is the optimal time.

Our Ideal Partner

In our experience, more is often accomplished by building upon a company than by creating one from scratch. This is why Gallagher seeks to acquire financial interests in small, lower middle-market private companies. We look for business owners we can invest in, not for businesses we can buy outright. As a family-held firm investing our own capital, we are able to create a unique partnership where we directly align our interests with those of our portfolio companies.

Characteristics of our ideal partner include:

Owner-operated or family businesses seeking a recapitalization with an experienced investment partner
Looking to stay active in the management of day-to-day operation.
Businesses with $1 million to $4 million of EBITDA (less for add-ons)
Historically profitable (not turnaround situations)
Headquartered in the United States
Gallagher brings to bear long-standing relationships with major financial institutions, a broad network within the national business community, the ability to close transactions quickly, and the experience to help strategically manage businesses through each growth stage.
We welcome the opportunity to discuss with existing owners, management and intermediaries how we can partner to take your business to the next level. If you have an opportunity that meets our criteria, please contact us:
info@gallagherindustries.com
Tom Loftus
President
K.C. Gallagher
Chairman
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Our Portfolio

Featuring some of our current and past partnerships

We invest in select companies with long-term potential.
 Each partnership is a story of growth, shared vision, and lasting success.
 Here are a few of the businesses we’re proud to support—past and present.
Event Rents USA
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Event Rents USA
Status:
Status: Ongoing Partnership
Location: Denver, Colorado
Partnership Began: 2012

Event Rents, a Colorado market leader in the event rental category, partnered with Gallagher to expand its successful model into the Phoenix market. In addition to providing the necessary capital for this effort, the Gallagher team also provided strategic business guidance that has lead to substantial growth within Colorado. The new strategy and focus has grown revenues and profitability through geographic expansion, increased utilization rates, targeted sales efforts and acquisitions.

Event Rents is now an established, known entity for event rentals in Colorado and Arizona and plans to replicate its successful model in new markets.

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VeloDyne
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VeloDyne
Status:
Status: Ongoing Partnership
Location: Louisville, CO
Partnership Began: 2013

VeloDyne is the leading chemical feed equipment manufacturer serving the municipal water treatment market. 

Looking to take on larger, more complex projects and to expand into other industrial verticals, VeloDyne turned to a partnership with Gallagher. Beyond providing the expansion capital and expertise the company needed for its next stage of growth, Gallagher helped VeloDyne refine its strategy and institute operational improvements that significantly increased the overall profitability of the business. These efforts better positioned the company to capitalize on the many opportunities in the water treatment industry, ultimately leading to a merger with cleanwater1. 

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Profile Products
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Profile Products
Status:
Status: Fulfilled Partnership 24 years
Location: Buffalo Grove, IL
Partnership Period: 1986 – 2010

Profile Products, an overlooked division of the Industry Group of International Minerals and Chemicals, Corp., was acquired by Gallagher in 1986, and transformed into the premier provider of soil solutions in the world. 

The company mines and processes montmorillonite clay and became the leading manufacturer and marketer of soil amendments and specialty mulches used for erosion control, soil enhancement and seed establishment all over the world.

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Environmental StoneWorks
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Environmental StoneWorks
Status:
Status: Fulfilled Partnership for 18 years
Location: Denver, CO
Partnership Period: 2001 – 2019

Under Gallagher‘s ownership, Environmental StoneWorks expanded from a single location operation serving the Denver and Colorado Front Range markets to the leading national manufacturer and installer of synthetic stone veneer providing materials and services to the homebuilding and improvement industry. 

The company operated six manufacturing plants and 12 sales and installation facilities across the country, and was a leading provider to the top production, multifamily and custom homebuilders in the US and Canada.

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Milcor
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Milcor
Status:
Status: Fulfilled Partnership for 14 years
Holland, OH
Partnership Period: 1986 – 2000

Milcor was a small division of Inland Steel providing niche metal products to various construction trades when Gallagher acquired it in 1986 from the parent company. 

Milcor  later became a leading manufacturer of a complete line of building products including access doors, roof hatches, vents, registers, bath cabinets and telescoping doors. The company sold its products and services nationally into the residential, commercial, institutional and industrial construction markets through a variety of channels.

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Liquid Container
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Liquid Container
Status:
Status: Fulfilled Partnership for 20 years
West Chicago, IL
Partnership Period: 1990 – 2010

When Gallagher first partnered with Liquid Container, they were a regional supplier of low-margin HDPE (high-density polyethylene) stock bottles serving the Chicago area. 

Liquid Container later became the industry-leading national manufacturer and marketer of specialty rigid plastic containers serving the entire U.S. food and consumer products markets. The company was also a pioneer in their industry with unique design, engineering and manufacturing capabilities and a business strategy focused on complex, custom-designed packaging products.

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Aimcor
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Aimcor
Status:
Status: Fulfilled Partnership for 12 years
Stanford, CT
Partnership Period: 1986 – 1997

This partnership was the main focus of Charlie Gallagher’s initial private equity acquisition in 1986. He partnered with the Industry Group of International Minerals and Chemicals, Corp. management to acquire, from their parent company, a division that had historically lacked focus. 

The newly independent business was named Applied Industrial Materials Corp. (AIMCOR) and grew into a leading international supplier of carbon products and related services and manufacturer of ferroalloys, metals, minerals and metallurgical process materials.

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Ready to Take the Next Step?

You’ve built something great. Now it’s time to take it further.
 At Gallagher, we invest in more than just companies
—we invest in the vision, the values, and the people behind them.

If you’re ready for a partnership built on trust, experience, and a long-term outlook, let’s talk.