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The Brickman Group, Ltd.
 
The Brickman Group provides landscape maintenance services to corporations and property managers nationwide. For this family-run business, CIVC's investment enabled an orderly transition of management and ownership to the next generation, while providing capital to pursue an aggressive growth plan. Today, Brickman is the premier commercial landscape maintenance firm in the country, with an expanding network of over 180 branches located across the country. With CIVC's investment, Brickman has continued its steady revenue growth through internal expansion and select acquisitions, closing regional gaps and better serving its blue-chip national customers.


Icon Identity Solutions, Inc.
 
  • Custom signage and maintenance provider
  • Elk Grove Village, Illinois
  • CIVC Investment: 2007
  • www.iconid.com
Icon Identity Solutions is a leading provider of corporate identity solutions (exterior signage and program management, including installation and maintenance services). Customers include major national and large regional customers, primarily in the financial services and retail industries, that rely upon outsourced sign partners to execute large, complex signage programs.


KS Energy Services, Inc.
 
  • Outsourced utility services
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • CIVC Investment: 2010
KS Energy Services is a leading provider of outsourced maintenance, repair and installation services for blue-chip natural gas and electric utilities in the upper Midwest and surrounding areas. CIVC invested in this family run business alongside management and an executive team, facilitating an ownership transition and providing capital to purse an aggressive growth plan. With CIVC’s investment, KS plans to pursue select acquisitions, enabling the company to broaden its geographic reach and service offering.


Pipeline Industries, Inc.
 
  • Outsourced sewer line repair
  • Denver, Colorado
  • CIVC Investment: 2009
Pipeline Industries, Inc. is an outsourced provider of lateral sewer line repair services serving residential and commercial plumbing companies. Pipeline enables its customers to generate incremental income through providing lateral sewer line repair and replacement services in addition to their routine drain cleaning services. Based in Denver, Colorado, Pipeline currently operates in three markets, with plans to expand into additional markets. CIVC acquired the Company with management and a local private equity firm, Silver Peak Partners, to facilitate an orderly transition of ownership from the founding shareholder and to support its aggressive growth plans.


Precision Camera & Video Repair, Inc.
 
Precision Camera is North America’s leading provider of outsourced camera and camcorder repair service programs. The Company repairs cameras and camcorders covered under a manufacturer warranty or extended warranty managed by a retailer or third party administrator, and directly for consumers not covered under any form of warranty. As a result of its extensive authorizations from virtually every camera original equipment manufacturer in the industry and its team of 155 highly trained repair service technicians, Precision Camera is the only service provider capable of offering a one-stop, full-service solution for virtually all models of digital cameras and camcorders. CIVC teamed with management in December 2005 to acquire the Company and support its continued growth.


Thermo Fluids, Inc.
 
Thermo Fluids is the leading provider of used oil collection services offering a “one-stop” and environmentally-conscious waste disposal solutions to its used oil-generating customers, including quick lube stations, automotive service companies, auto dealerships, mining operations, and industrial companies. The Company reprocesses the collected used oil into commercial fuel oil, which is sold as an alternative energy source into a variety of end markets, including asphalt and paper companies, as well as re-refiners and the bunker (marine) market. In additional to used oil collection and reprocessing, the Company also offers other environmental services, such as oily water collection and processing, antifreeze collection, processing, and re-manufacturing/recycling, oil filter collection and processing, parts washers, and industrial waste management.
 
 
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