Empire Auto Parts LLC

www.empireautoparts.com

Management Buyout
Add-On Acquisitions

Press Releases
11/2021

Empire Auto Parts is a leading specialty distributor of aftermarket parts serving collision repair centers. Headquartered in Totowa, New Jersey, Empire offers more than 49,000 top-quality products—including bumper covers, lamps, hoods, fenders, trunk lids, grills, bezels, and door mirrors—for more than 600 vehicle models. Empire delivers parts the same or next day to customers in 28 states using its hub-and-spoke distribution model, fleet of vehicles, and sophisticated infrastructure. Empire's customers enjoy best-in-class service, unmatched product availability, and a better buying experience. Led by an experienced, committed management team, Empire is executing its proven growth playbook of opening new parts distribution centers to expand its delivery network.

High Bar Brands LLC

www.highbarbrands.com

Management Buyout
Add-On Acquisitions

Press Releases
12/2023

High Bar Brands is the leading manufacturer and distributor of branded aftermarket products for heavy-duty trucks and trailers. High Bar's product portfolio includes poly fenders, floormats, couplings, pintle hitches, stainless steel accessories, and mud flaps. High Bar's manufacturing experience spans nearly 100 years, and its iconic brands—Minimizer, Premier Manufacturing, Dieters, Panelite, and Viking—are renowned for superior durability, safety, and functionality. High Bar serves aftermarket distributors, dealers, and OEMs in North America, Central America, and South America. The end users of High Bar's products are fleet managers and owner-operators across infrastructure, waste management, agriculture, food service, forestry, over-the-road trucking, and other markets.

With a talented and committed management team, best-in-class products and service, and operational excellence, High Bar is well positioned to grow rapidly, both organically and through add-on acquisitions in related product categories.

Recreational Group

www.recreationalgroup.com

Management Buyout
Add-On Acquisitions

Press Releases
01/2022
10/2021

Sentinel's investment in The Recreational Group began with our acquisition of Controlled Products in October 2021. During the diligence process, Sentinel was introduced to The Recreational Group ("RG"), a similar-sized and highly complementary business located next door to Controlled Products in Dalton, Georgia. Approximately eight weeks after acquiring Controlled Products, in December 2021, Sentinel acquired RG, combined the two businesses, and renamed the combination The Recreational Group.

Controlled Products is a leading manufacturer and distributor of premium synthetic turf products for landscape, sports, commercial, and specialty applications. Controlled Products develops and distributes a variety of premium synthetic turf through an international network of dealers and customers and to its company owned and franchised Purchase Green® stores. Controlled Products serves a diverse group of residential, commercial, and field customers with leading name brands including GrassTex, SporTurf, and Synthetic Turf International, as well as private label products. With a wide range of high-quality and innovative synthetic turf products, Controlled Products has established itself as a manufacturer-of-choice with leading dealers and architects, and will continue to educate the market regarding the benefits of synthetic turf products across field and non-field applications and encourage adoption.

RG is also a leading designer, manufacturer, and installer of premium recreational surfacing products, including synthetic turf and modular tile. RG serves both the residential and nonresidential markets, including education, municipalities, and religious facilities. The combination of RG and Controlled Products brings together two highly complementary businesses to create the largest and most diversified platform in the premium recreational surfaces market with difficult to replicate manufacturing capabilities. CP increases RG’s sport and landscape turf presence while RG adds deeper penetration of commercial and landscape turf markets and fast-growing modular tile products. Offering a diversified line of innovative and highly complementary products, the combined business serves customers across the U.S., with a focus on the Southeast and Southwest, where water conservation and the need for natural grass alternatives is growing. Moreover, as the industry's only vertically integrated player of scale, the combination offers superior product quality, consistency, and excellent customer service. The combined platform presents an exciting opportunity to grow organically and through acquisition.