Russell-Newman, Inc. is an established and leading intimate apparel company with significant operations in Texas, New York City, and Asia. Founded in 1939, Russell-Newman specializes in the design, sourcing, marketing and distribution of intimate apparel. The Company sells its products under a variety of well-known brand names such as Tommy Hilfiger, Laura Ashley, Willow Wear, and Cypress, and through private label programs to a broad base of customers in the discount store, department store, upscale hotel and spa, specialty store and club segments. Russell-Newman is led by a strong and experienced management team with significant industry expertise. Industrial Renaissance and senior management recapitalized Russell-Newman on August 16, 2007.


KN Karen Neuburger® started in 1994 as a home-based sleepwear business producing intimate apparel and home merchandise. Today KN has been featured on national television segments and in magazines and newspapers across the country. KN has their designs in over 3,000 retail stores within the United States, and also in Canada, South America, Europe and Asia. KN established itself as a lifestyle brand with comfort-focused products. Russell Newman acquired KN effective Friday July 18 2008.


Carol Malony is a premium designer intimate apparel brand. With the current alliance with Carol Malony, Russell-Newman has expanded its core sleepwear, loungewear and daywear product offering to now include fashion bras, coordinating daywear and lingerie. Carol Malony currently features two collections: Carol Malony Signature, a better line and Haute, a designer line, which are sold at better department and specialty stores in the United States, Europe and Australia. Carol Malony has been a design force in the industry from the very beginning. She has owned upscale lingerie boutiques in greater Los Angeles, California, has been a key designer and supplier for Victoria’s Secret, and at the onset of launching her two collections in the Fall of 2007, won the “Madam Figaro Award” and the “Ultra Modernite Trophy” for excellence in Lingerie Design at Salon de la Lingerie 2008, in Paris. Carol Malony products have been featured in: Marie Claire, Figaro, Intima, WWD, Linea, Contour, IAB, US, California Apparel News, E-Entertainment and many other noteworthy fashion and industry publications. Russell-Newman developed a strategic alliance with an affiliate that acquired Carol Malony Designs on July 3, 2008 and will operate as Carol Malony, a division of Russell-Newman.


St. Eve was founded in 1976 and has grown into one of the largest intimate apparel companies in the United States. Headquartered in New York City, St. Eve sells its products under the St. Eve brand as well as private label to all major department stores, chain stores and other retail channels nationwide. St. Eve’s women’s product offering includes: (i) undergarments, including briefs, hi-cuts, bikinis, strings, thongs, camisoles, shelf camisoles and sport bras; and (ii) sleepwear, including oversized gowns, nightshirts, chemises, loungers and pajama sets. In addition, the company’s children’s product offering includes underpants, training bras and camisoles for girls; briefs, boxers and undershirts for boys; and sleepwear for girls and boys and blanket sleepers for toddlers. Russell-Newman acquired St. Eve on March 14, 2008.


Biflex Intimates Group is a leading provider of private label women’s intimate apparel to major retailers. Biflex specializes in designing, sourcing and managing the flow of product, primarily bras, for large customers across the discount channel, national chains, and department stores. Primarily a private label business, the IZOD brand for intimate apparel is also currently in the BiFlex portfolio. Industrial Renaissance worked with management to help them acquire Biflex from Kellwood Company (NYSE: KWD) in 2006.


Westover Car Rental, LLC is a Dollar & Thrifty rental car franchisee/operator and parking lot owner/operator at the Buffalo, NY airport with plans to expand to new airport locations in other mid-tier cities primarily on the East Coast.

Vtrenz provides leading, affordable Enterprise Marketing Management (“EMM”) solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (“SMBs”) that allow its customers to save time, reduce costs, increase sales opportunities, and increase revenue. Deployed as an application solutions’ provider (“ASP”) at a modest annual subscription it is the most attractive and affordable solution for this market; to deploy iMarketing Automationä its clients require no software, no servers, and no IT department typical of other EMM solutions that are unaffordable to SMBs. iMarketing Automationä enables direct marketing professionals to develop a dynamic, repeatable, and measurable lead generation process which increases response rates, accelerates sales opportunities, and provides clear visibility into marketing initiatives. Industrial Renaissance lead a growth financing in 2005.
Bright of America designs, manufactures, and markets home consumer products and educational items sold directly to mass merchandisers, food, and drug store chains throughout the United States, Canada, and in various countries around the world. The company has maintained high levels of profitability on an annual basis since 1994 – this combined with minimal capital expenditures and a recession-resistant product line results in a significant positive annual cash flow. Future plans for the company include investing in complementary and related product categories. Industrial Renaissance and investors acquired Bright from Russ Berrie (NYSE: RUSS) in 2004.
Innova-Safety is a leading niche manufacturer of professional safety and rescue equipment used in high-height anchorage and fall arrest applications, and in confined spaces. Its fall protection trolleys protect thousands of workers every day from falls and are used by the American grain and feed industries, the American dry bulk materials manufacturing and handling industries such as the plastics industry, flour mills, cereal manufacturers, pharmaceuticals, plastic molding and resin suppliers, powdered materials manufacturers, and many other dry bulk material industries. The company is also heavily involved in engineered confined space and high-height anchorage fall-arrest devices used widely by municipalities, water utility, electric and natural gas utility, chemical plants, steel mills, and oil refineries. Industrial Renaissance provided venture funding in 2002.
Peregre provides mission-critical information and online management tools to help corporations relocate and expatriate personnel on a global basis. The company developed a unique and leading suite of online products and tools, which has earned distinction as the #1 product in its industry. In over 300 cities worldwide, the company provides online Housing Actuals (detailed apartment and house rental information), International School Comparisons, and City Profiles; each of these tools provides relocation-critical information to a corporation’s human resources and compensation and benefits department, and to the expatriate assignee and family. Industrial Renaissance provided venture funding in 2002.

 

 
       

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