Roark Capital Group

Roark Capital Group
Type	Private
ISIN	🆔
Industry	Private equity
Founded 📆	2001; 24 years ago
Founder 👔	Neal Aronson (Founder & Managing Partner)
Headquarters 🏙️	, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Area served 🗺️
Products 📟	Leveraged buyout
💎 AUM	US$11.0 billion
Members
Number of employees	56
🌐 Website	www.roarkcapital.com
📇 Address
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Roark Capital Group is an American private equity firm with nearly US$11.0 billion in equity capital raised since inception that is focused on leveraged buyout investments in middle-market companies primarily in the franchise/multi-unit, restaurant and food, retail healthcare and business services sectors. The firm is named for Howard Roark, the protagonist in Ayn Rand's novel, The Fountainhead. The firm's name is not meant to connote any particular political philosophy but instead signifies the firm's admiration for the iconoclastic qualities of independence and self-assurance embodied by the central figure in The Fountainhead.^[1]

History[edit]

The firm, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded in 2001 by the current Managing Partner, Neal K. Aronson. Senior team members include President Paul D. Ginsberg, Senior Managing Director and Co-Chief Investment Officer Ezra S. Field, Senior Managing Director and Co-Chief Investment Officer Erik O. Morris, and Managing Directors Timothy Armstrong, Stephen D. Aronson, Geoff Hill, Matthew Kaelin, and Steven Romaniello.

Prior to founding Roark Capital Group, Aronson was a co-founder of U.S. Franchise Systems. Roark currently is investing out of its fifth institutional private equity fund.

Investments[edit]

Roark's current and former portfolio companies include:

Current investments[edit]

Anytime Fitness
Atkins Nutritionals
Batteries Plus Bulbs
CKE Restaurants: (Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Green Burrito & Red Burrito)
Culver’s minority investment.
Driven Brands: (1-800-Radiator & A/C, CARSTAR, Maaco, Meineke, Merlin 200,000 Mile Shops, Pro Oil Change, Econo Lube & Tune)
Drybar
Focus Brands: (Auntie Anne's,^[2] Carvel,^[3]^[4] Cinnabon,^[5] McAlister's Deli, Moe's Southwest Grill,^[6] Schlotzsky's^[7])
Great Expressions Dental Centers
Home Service Store
Il Fornaio: (Corner Bakery Cafe)^[8]
Inspire Brands: 81.5% of the company, with The Wendy's Company owning the other 18.5%. (Arby's, Buffalo Wild Wings, R Taco)^[9]
Jim ‘N Nick’s BBQ Restaurants^[10]
Jimmy John's^[11] Majority stake of 65% with other 35% owned by founder Jimmy John Liautaud.
Massage Envy Spas
Miller's Ale House
Naf Naf Grill
Orangetheory Fitness
Pet Supermarket
PetValu and Bosley's Petstores
Primrose Schools
Solterra Recycling
Waxing the City

Former investments[edit]

Batteries Plus Bulbs
Cyber Core Technologies
Fastsigns
GFL Environmental
Money Mailer
Movie Gallery
Peachtree Business Products
PSC Info Group
Qualawash
United States Arbitrage Finance II
USFS
Waste Pro
Wingstop

References[edit]

↑ "About Our Name". Roark Capital Group. Retrieved 2017-05-25.
↑ Holzman, Paula (October 8, 2010). "Atlanta franchisor to acquire Auntie Anne's". Central Penn Business Journal.
↑ "Equity Firm Buys Controlling Stake In Carvel". The New York Times. December 11, 2001.
↑ "New Roark Capital Screams Ice Cream". Buyouts. Reuters. January 7, 2002. Archived from the original on 2011-09-11.
↑ Focus Brands To Buy Cinnabon From AFC Enterprises. The New York Times, September 9, 2004
↑ "QSR magazine".
↑ Focus Brands buying Schlotzsky's, Austin Business Journal, November 20, 2006.
↑ "Atlanta's Roark Capital buys Il Fornaio parent firm". San Francisco Chronicle. 2011-06-14.
↑ Hammond, Ed; Giammona, Craig (28 November 2017). "Roark Agrees to $2.4 Billion Buffalo Wild Wings Deal". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
↑ "Roark Capital Group Acquires Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q" (PDF). 2017-07-10.
↑ "Roark Capital Buys Majority Stake in Jimmy John's". The Wall Street Journal. 2016-09-08.

External links[edit]

Official website

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[1] "About Our Name". Roark Capital Group. Retrieved 2017-05-25.

[2] Holzman, Paula (October 8, 2010). "Atlanta franchisor to acquire Auntie Anne's". Central Penn Business Journal.

[3] "Equity Firm Buys Controlling Stake In Carvel". The New York Times. December 11, 2001.

[4] "New Roark Capital Screams Ice Cream". Buyouts. Reuters. January 7, 2002. Archived from the original on 2011-09-11.

[5] Focus Brands To Buy Cinnabon From AFC Enterprises. The New York Times, September 9, 2004

[6] "QSR magazine".

[7] Focus Brands buying Schlotzsky's, Austin Business Journal, November 20, 2006.

[8] "Atlanta's Roark Capital buys Il Fornaio parent firm". San Francisco Chronicle. 2011-06-14.

[9] Hammond, Ed; Giammona, Craig (28 November 2017). "Roark Agrees to $2.4 Billion Buffalo Wild Wings Deal". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

[10] "Roark Capital Group Acquires Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q" (PDF). 2017-07-10.

[11] "Roark Capital Buys Majority Stake in Jimmy John's". The Wall Street Journal. 2016-09-08.

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