CD&R Company Description
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) specializes in turnaround situations. With a reputation as a hands-on manager of its portfolio companies, the private equity firm typically targets units of large corporations, structures a leveraged buyout (LBO), and works with existing management to improve operations. Since it was formed in 1978, CD&R has invested in more than 40 businesses in the US and Europe. In 2007 the company led an investor group that bought ServiceMaster, and joined with Bain Capital and The Carlyle Group to buy the wholesale construction supply business of The Home Depot for about $8.5 billion.
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