Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation Completes Acquisition of Tommy Hilfiger B.V. |  RELEASE

Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation To Acquire Tommy Hilfiger B.V. For Approximately $3.0 Billion |  RELEASE

Why Phillips-Van Heusen Is Buying Tommy Hilfiger |  ARTICLE

PVH Buys Hilfiger for $3 Billion |  ARTICLE

Ariat Named Official Boot of Professional Bull Riders, Inc. |  RELEASE

Au Bon Pain Included in Zagat's Top 5 Fast Food Salads |  ARTICLE

LNK's Henry Nasella Honored in Inc. Magazine's 30th Anniversary Issue |  ARTICLE

Ariat Named Manufacturer of the Year by Leading Equine Trade Publication Tack 'n Togs  | ARTICLE

Au Bon Pain Featured on CBS's The Early Show for Being Named as one of America's Healthiest Restaurants by Health Magazine |  ARTICLE

Ariat Announced as Official Sponsor of the 2010 World Equestrian Games |  RELEASE

Au Bon Pain Included in Men's Health's "America's Healthiest Restaurants" | ARTICLE

Four Ariat Athletes Crowned World Champions at 2008 National Finals Rodeo |  RELEASE

Au Bon Pain Ranks #1 in FastCasual Magazine's "Top 100 Movers & Shakers" |  ARTICLE

Au Bon Pain Receives Best Nod to Smarter Eating in QSR Magazine's "Best of 2008" Feature |  ARTICLE

Leading Consumer Products CEO Phil Marineau Joins LNK Partners |  RELEASE

LNK Promotes Jeff Perlman to Partner |  RELEASE

Ariat Outfits U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Equestrian Teams in Beijing: San Francisco Chronicle |  ARTICLE

Au Bon Pain featured on NBC's Today for "4 Healthiest Fast Food Restaurants" |  VIDEO

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 focused on backing strong management teams who are building outstanding consumer and retail businesses. LNK invests up to $150 million of equity per transaction. The firm is highly flexible in the type and structure of its investments, and is comfortable being a minority or majority shareholder.

LNK's investments to date include the recapitalization of Au Bon Pain, a leader in the fast casual restaurant category, and the recapitalization of Ariat, the world's premier and fastest-growing performance equestrian brand. Most recently LNK partnered with Phillips-Van Heusen (NYSE: PVH) management by investing equity in support of their transaction to acquire Tommy Hilfiger.

LNK's 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.