Manulife Investment Management completes majority acquisition of Chilean fruit exporter, David Del Curto S.A.
BOSTON, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG), a company of Manulife Investment Management, announced today it has completed a majority acquisition of David Del Curto S.A. (“DDC”), on behalf of its third-party clients. The acquisition helps to diversify its growing agricultural portfolio through its Farmland Plus initiative. Farmland Plus assets include integrated crop operations such as transitional processing, storing and packaging for wholesale distribution. The acquisition is in keeping with Manulife Investment Management’s priority to strategically grow its private markets offering across timber, agriculture, infrastructure, real estate, private equity and credit.
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BOSTON, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG), a company of Manulife Investment Management, announced today it has completed a majority acquisition of David Del Curto S.A. ( DDC ), on behalf of its third-party clients. The acquisition helps to diversify its growing agricultural portfolio through its Farmland Plus initiative. Farmland Plus assets include integrated crop operations such as transitional processing, storing and packaging for wholesale distribution. The acquisition is in keeping with Manulife Investment Management s priority to strategically grow its private markets offering across timber, agriculture, infrastructure, real estate, private equity and credit.
David Del Curto, S.A. is a leading Chilean fruit production, packing and export company, which produces over ten different fruit types across eleven farms, while also managing one of the largest nurseries in the country. It also operates three pack
Blackford Capital invests in Aqua-Leisure Industries
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Auq-Leisure Industries is a designer and distributor of multiple lines of performance-based products under a variety of brand names and proprietary designs, including swim goggles, “Learn to Swim” products for children and pool floats, among other categories.
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Courtesy Aqua-Leisure Industries
The local private equity firm Blackford Capital invested in a water sport leisure and aquatic goods product developer, creating a new portfolio company platform in the process.
Grand Rapids-based Blackford Capital said Wednesday it invested in Avon, Massachusetts-based Aqua-Leisure Industries.
Founded in 1970, Aqua-Leisure primarily serves the aquatic consumer products industry. The company is a designer and distributor of multiple lines of performance-based products under a variety of brand names and proprietary designs, including swim goggles, “Learn to Swim” products for children and p
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Blackford Capital, a private equity firm based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, today announced an investment in Aqua-Leisure Industries, a leader and pioneer in water sport leisure product development and aquatic goods.
Headquartered just outside of Boston, Aqua-Leisure was founded in 1970 and primarily serves the aquatic consumer products industry. The company is one of the largest and most innovative designers and distributors of multiple lines of high quality, performance-based products under a variety of brand names and proprietary designs, including swim goggles, Learn to Swim products for children, and pool floats, among other categories.