Leading Consumer Products CEO Phil Marineau Joins LNK Partners |  RELEASE

LNK Promotes Jeff Perlman to Partner |  RELEASE

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Au Bon Pain included in Health magazine's "America’s Healthiest Restaurants" |  ARTICLE

USEF Continues Partnership with Ariat As Official Apparel Supplier |  RELEASE

Au Bon Pain Acquisition by LNK Partners and Management Closes |  RELEASE

Au Bon Pain to be Acquired by LNK Partners and Management |  RELEASE

LNK Leads Investment in Ariat to Support Continued Growth of Performance Equestrian Brand | RELEASE

LNK Partners Closes $400 Million Private Equity Fund to Invest in Consumer and Retail Businesses | RELEASE

LNK Partners is a private equity firm that backs great management teams building outstanding consumer and retail businesses. LNK’s team is unique in combining extensive investing and operating experience in the sector, and is further differentiated from other private equity firms by the breadth, depth and longevity of its industry relationships. The firm’s founding partners are David Landau, the former head of U.S. consumer and retail group of private equity firm Apax Partners; Henry Nasella, the former President of Staples and CEO of Star Markets; and Bruce Klatsky, the former Chairman and CEO of Phillips-Van Heusen.

The LNK team shares a set of core values regarding how to support our partners, treat people, and conduct ourselves with the utmost professionalism and integrity. Our core ideology is as follows:

We are focused exclusively on the consumer and retail sector. This focus has yielded deep personal experience and an extensive network of relationships with some of the most knowledgeable and influential executives in the sector. Our focus, experience and relationships enable us to appreciate great management teams and outstanding companies, and to move quickly and decisively in assessing and completing investments.

We back great management teams building outstanding businesses. We do not run companies. We partner with proven management teams that we believe in and we work hard to support them in any way we can. Based on our personal experiences and our extensive network of relationships in the consumer and retail sector, LNK is able to provide significant tangible assistance to the management teams we back as they grow their businesses.

We are highly flexible in the type and structure of our investments. LNK is comfortable being a minority or majority shareholder in growth capital, buyouts, recapitalizations, or PIPEs. Our focus is on backing great management teams that are building outstanding businesses with strong and lasting consumer value propositions. The type and structure of our investments are of less concern.

We strive to maintain our reputation as helpful and trusted partners. Each of the founding partners of LNK is known in the consumer and retail sector for consistently delivering on what they promise. As a firm, LNK is committed to being a supportive and reliable partner that always delivers on its word.