Why Oridian-backed ACR bought Ultra Green Packaging as its twelfth add-on

What we don't know

• The purchase price, and so any multiple paid. [[10]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oridian-capital-partners-backed-acr-acquires-ultra-green-packaging-302917396.html)
• Ultra Green's revenue, profit or customer concentration. [[10]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oridian-capital-partners-backed-acr-acquires-ultra-green-packaging-302917396.html)
• How the deal was financed. [[10]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oridian-capital-partners-backed-acr-acquires-ultra-green-packaging-302917396.html)
• Beyond Kristin Davidson and unnamed key managers staying involved, what the retention terms are. [[10]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oridian-capital-partners-backed-acr-acquires-ultra-green-packaging-302917396.html)

Read for small-business buyers

This is our read: the logic is a classic add-on, where a small specialist brings a capability and a larger platform brings distribution. If you are the small specialist, the question a buyer will ask is how much of your product's success depends on you personally, since the release stresses that leaders stay on.

How to read this

• Platform vs add-on. A platform is the first company a private equity firm buys to build around. An add-on is a later, usually smaller purchase that is folded into it. Here ACR is the platform and Ultra Green is the twelfth add-on. [[10]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oridian-capital-partners-backed-acr-acquires-ultra-green-packaging-302917396.html)
• Complementary products. Buying a product line that fits next to yours can lift sales without a new sales force, because existing customers can buy more from the same seller. A buyer checks in diligence whether customers really overlap and whether the product performs as claimed.
• Management continuity. When a founder or key manager stays, the buyer reduces the risk that customer relationships and know-how walk out the door. Diligence looks at the terms that keep them, such as rollover equity or an earnout, which are not disclosed here.

If you were selling a niche product company to a platform like ACR, which would matter more to you: price, or what the buyer's distribution could do for your product?

Sources

• Oridian Capital Partners-Backed ACR Acquires Ultra Green Packaging (PR Newswire)

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