Articles from The Sterling Group

The Sterling Group Foundation Fund (the “Foundation Fund”), an operationally focused lower middle market private equity firm, today announced that portfolio company Russell Landscape Group (“Russell” or the “Company”), a leading provider of commercial landscape maintenance and construction services, has completed its fifth acquisition since the Foundation Fund’s initial investment in 2024. The acquisitions collectively augment Russell’s leading market position, with the Company now managing 16 regional operations across the Southeast.

Precision Concepts International, LLC (“PCI”) today announced it has acquired Comar. The combination establishes a scaled rigid packaging platform serving diverse consumer and healthcare customers across North America.

The Sterling Group (“Sterling”), a Houston-based, operationally focused middle market private equity firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dan Bucaro to the firm’s leadership ranks as Partner, Operating Executive.

The Sterling Group Foundation Fund (the “Foundation Fund”), an operationally focused lower middle market private equity firm, announced the establishment of AGS American Glass Services (“AGS”), a multi-regional provider of custom glass and coatings solutions with operations across the Midwest.

The Sterling Group (“Sterling”), a Houston, TX-based middle market private equity firm, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Precision Concepts International, LLC (“PCI” or “the Company”), a leading provider of specialty rigid packaging solutions, from ONCAP, the lower mid-market private equity platform of Onex Corporation (TSX: ONEX). Sterling will partner with existing PCI investors, including ONCAP and management, to support PCI’s continued growth.

The Sterling Group (“Sterling”), a Houston, TX-based middle market private equity firm, today announced the acquisitions of Arizona-headquartered Pavement Preservation Group, Inc. (“PPGI”), and Vance Brothers, LLC (“Vance”), headquartered in Kansas City, MO. As part of this series of transactions, the PPGI and Vance organizations will operate as regional divisions of Pavement Preservation Group (“PPG”), a newly formed national platform aimed at building upon the acquired companies’ regional leadership across the southwest and central United States to forge the sector’s preeminent nationwide operator. PPG will be led by Darin Matson, a pavement sector senior executive with over twenty-five years of experience, who most recently served as the CEO of the Rogers Group, Inc., the largest privately owned aggregates producer in the United States with significant highway construction and asphalt service offerings in the Southeast.