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Academy Sports + Outdoors
HQ: Katy, Texas
Year of Investment: 2011
Academy is a leading value-oriented, lifestyle and sporting goods retailer with over 140 stores located throughout 11 states in the Southeastern U.S.
Accellent Inc.
HQ: Wilmington, MA
Year of Investment: 2005
The largest provider of fully integrated outsourced manufacturing and engineering services to the medical device industry.
Accelerated Oil Technologies
HQ: New York, NY
Year of Investment: 2011
Accelerated Oil Technologies, LLC is a private independent oil company formed in 2010 for the purpose of acquiring mature, long-lived oil producing assets.
Acteon
HQ: Norwich, UK
Year of Investment: 2012
Acteon companies provide foundations and moorings; risers, conductors, and flowlines; marine electronics; and project management products and services.
Alliance Boots
HQ: Zug, Switzerland
Year of Investment: 2007
International pharmacy-led health and beauty group operating in more than 20 countries across the world.
Alliant Insurance Services
HQ: Newport Beach, CA
Year of Investment: 2012
Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. is one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the United States, providing property and casualty, workers' compensation, employee benefits, surety, and financial products and services to some 20,000 clients nationwide, including public entities, tribal nations, healthcare, energy, law firms, real estate, construction, and other industry groups.
Ambea AB
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Year of Investment: 2010
One of the largest healthcare and care providers in the Nordic region, with strong positions in both Sweden and Finland.
Aricent Inc.
HQ: East Brunswick, NJ
Year of Investment: 2006
Aricent is a global innovation, technology and outsourcing company with deep expertise in communications.
A.T.U.—Auto-Teile-Unger Holding GmbH
HQ: Weiden, Germany
Year of Investment: 2006
ATU is a leading independent car services provider in the German automotive aftermarket.
Avago Technologies Limited
HQ: Yishun, Singapore and San Jose, CA
Year of Investment: 2005
Avago Technologies is a leading designer, developer and supplier of a broad range of analog semiconductor devices for wireless communications, wired infrastructure, industrial and automotive electronics, and consumer and computing peripherals.
Avincis (fka Inaer Aviation)
HQ: Alicante, Spain
Year of Investment: 2010
A leading global provider of mission-critical helicopter services to public administrations and blue-chip energy companies.
Bharti Infratel Limited
HQ: New Delhi, India
Year of Investment: 2008
A carve-out of the mobile tower portfolio of Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile communications operator. Infratel owns and operates mobile telecommunications infrastructure and offers its services to Bharti Airtel and other mobile communications operators in India. Infratel also as a 42% stake in Indus Towers which is a joint tower company with the mobile operators Vodafone (42%) and Idea (16%).
Biomet, Inc.
HQ: Warsaw, IN
Year of Investment: 2007
Designs and manufactures orthopedic medical devices and other products used primarily by surgeons and medical specialists, with distribution in over 70 countries and a product portfolio that encompasses orthopedic joint replacement products, dental reconstructive implants, fixation devices, spinal products and other applications.
Bis Industries Limited
HQ: North Sydney, Australia
Year of Investment: 2006
Bis Industries is the leading provider of specialist logistics solutions to the resources sector in Australia.
BMG
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Year of Investment: 2009
BMG is an international group of music companies focused on the management of music right, covering the entire range of rights administration, development, and exploitation, placing the needs of songwriters and artists at the core of its business model. BMG is a joint venture between the international media company Bertelsmann, a German media company, and KKR.
Capital Safety
HQ: Bloomington, MN
Year of Investment: 2012
Capital Safety is a leading manufacturer of fall protection, confined space, and rescue equipment, with 20 operating sites worldwide.
Capsugel
HQ: Morristown, NJ
Year of Investment: 2011
The leading provider of empty, two-piece hard capsules, and an innovator of drug-delivery systems for the pharmaceutical and dietary supplement industries.
China Cord Blood Corporation
HQ: Beijing, China
NYSE: CO
Year of Investment: 2012
China Cord Blood Corporation is the first and largest umbilical cord blood banking operator in China in terms of geographical coverage and is the only cord blood banking operator with multiple licenses. It provides cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem cell processing and stem cell storage services.
China International Capital Corporation Limited
HQ: Beijing, China
Year of Investment: 2010
A leading investment bank in China, providing a wide range of investment banking services to Chinese and multinational clients, including equity and debt underwriting, M&A advisory, brokerage, asset management, and proprietary trading.
China Outfitters Holdings Limited
HQ: Shanghai, China
HKEX: 1146
Year of Investment: 2011
China Outfitters Holdings Limited is a leading menswear-focused apparel design, manufacturing and sales company with an extensive sales network comprising over 1,000 stores across China.
Coffee Day Resorts
HQ: Bangalore, India
Year of Investment: 2010
Privately held company with ownership in various operating subsidiaries, including a substantial majority stake in Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company (“ABC”), which is India’s largest food and beverage retailer through its nationwide chain of coffee shops operating under the brand CCD (Café Coffee Day). CCD is one of India’s fastest-growing chains of coffee shops with more than 1,275 cafes in over 125 cities across India.
Colonial Pipeline
HQ: Alpharetta, Ga.
Year of Investment: 2010
Delivers liquid petroleum products (gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, jet fuel and fuels for the U.S. military) via a 5,500-mile network of underground pipelines originating in Houston and terminating at the New York harbor, thereby connecting Gulf Coast refiners with markets across the Southern and Eastern United States.
Dalmia Cement
HQ: New Delhi, India
Year of Investment: 2010
Dalmia Cement is India’s largest private cement company with 9mm tons per annum manufacturing capacity, a 45.4% stake in OCL India Limited (5.3mm tons per annum manufacturing capacity in East India) along with the upcoming green field cement projects across the country.
Del Monte Foods Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Year of Investment: 2011
One of the country's largest producers, distributors and marketers of premium-quality, branded pet and consumer food products for the U.S. retail market.
Dollar General Corporation
HQ: Goodlettsville, TN
Year of Investment: 2007
A leading small box, convenient discount retailer offering a broad selection of merchandise, including consumable, seasonal, apparel and home products, with over 10,000 stores in 39 states.
Energy Future Holdings Corp.
HQ: Dallas, TX
Year of Investment: 2007
Manages a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries consisting of TXU Energy, a competitive electricity retailer, Luminant, a competitive power generation business, including mining, wholesale marketing and trading, and construction, and Oncor, a regulated electric distribution and transmission business.
Far East Horizon
HQ: Shanghai
Year of Investment: 2009
Leading small and medium enterprise financing company in China and primarily provides equipment lease financing in target sectors with attractive growth potential and steady cashflow characteristics, e.g. medical, education, domestic printing, etc.
First Data Corporation
HQ: Atlanta, GA
Year of Investment: 2007
A leading provider of electronic commerce and payment solutions for merchants, financial institutions and card issuers globally, with operations in 35 countries, serving over 6 million merchant locations and over 4,500 financial institutions.
Fotolia
HQ: New York, NY
Year of Investment: 2012
Fotolia is a leading online marketplace for digital images operating websites in 15 countries and 11 languages with a database of over 17 million high-quality images and videos.
GenesisCare
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Year of Investment: 2012
GenesisCare is comprised of comprehensive cancer and cardiovascular care centres with an enthusiastic team of doctors, management professionals and health-care specialists Australia-wide who are dedicated to their patients and advancements in patient care.
Go Daddy
HQ: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Investment: 2011
Go Daddy is a leading provider of domain name registration, web-hosting, and other cloud-based services and software primarily to small-and-medium-sized businesses.
HCA Holdings, Inc.
HQ: Nashville, TN
Year of Investment: 2006
A leading provider of health care services, with hospitals and freestanding surgery centers in 20 U.S. states and England.
Intelligence Ltd.
HQ: Tokyo, Japan
Year of Investment: 2010
One of the leading comprehensive recruitment services providers in Japan, operating in three of the industry’s key business lines: Permanent Job Placement, Job Advertising Media, and Temporary Staffing/Outsourcing.
Ipreo
HQ: New York, NY
Year of Investment: 2011
Ipreo is a leading global provider of deal execution platforms, market intelligence and investor communications tools to investment banks and corporations around the world.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, plc
HQ: Palo Alto, CA and Dublin, Ireland
NASDAQ: JAZZ
Year of Investment: 2004
Pharmaceutical company focused on the identification, development and commercialization of pharmaceuticals in focused therapeutic areas, initially in neurology and psychiatry.
KION Group
HQ: Wiesbaden, Germany
Year of Investment: 2006
A worldwide leading provider of forklifts, warehouse equipment and other industrial trucks.
Laureate International Universities
HQ: Baltimore, MD
Year of Investment: 2007
A leading provider of for-profit post-secondary education in over 20 countries worldwide, serving over 600,000 students through campus-based universities located in Latin America, Europe and Asia, and through online universities based in the U.S.
Ma Anshan Modern Farming Co. Ltd.
HQ: Danyang Town, Maanshan City
Year of Investment: 2009
Ma Anshan Modern Farming Co. Ltd, known as Modern Dairy, is the leading dairy farming company headquartered in China’s central province of Anhui. Modern Dairy is one of the largest operators of centralized large scale dairy farms in China, with total production capacity of over 150,000 tons of raw milk per year.
Magma Fincorp
HQ: Kolkata, India
Year of Investment: 2011
Magma is a non-banking finance company ("NBFC") focused on the rural / semi-urban market that provides financing for autos (cars, UVs and CVs), construction equipment, used CVs, tractors and SME loans through a pan-India network of branches.
Masan Consumer
HQ: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Year of Investment: 2011
Vietnam's leading diversified consumer company, which manufactures and distributes a range of food products, including fish sauce, soy sauce, chili sauce, instant noodles and coffee.
Maxeda B.V.
HQ: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Year of Investment: 2004
The leading DIY retailer in the Benelux with over 350 stores and 1.1 million square meters of retail space.
MMI Holdings Limited
HQ: Singapore
Year of Investment: 2007
Engaged in the manufacture of precision machining and assembly components for customers in various industries, such as data storage, photonics, communications, semiconductor equipment, automotive and industrial automation.
The Nielsen Company B.V.
HQ: New York, NY
Year of Investment: 2006
A global information and measurement company active in over 100 countries, with leading market positions and recognized brands in each of the company’s core segments, including What Consumers Watch (media audience measurement and analytics), What Consumers Buy (consumer purchasing measurement and analytics) and Expositions (trade shows).
Northgate Information Solutions Limited
HQ: Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
Year of Investment: 2008
Leading global provider of specialist software and outsourcing solutions to the human resources and public service sectors.
Novo Holdco Limited
HQ: Hong Kong, China
Year of Investment: 2012
Novo Holdco is a fast growing fashion apparel retailer focused on the 18-30 age demographic in China.
NXP B.V.
HQ: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Year of Investment: 2006
NXP Semiconductors provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions that leverage its leading RF, Analog, Power Management, Interface, Security and Digital Processing expertise. These innovations are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications.
Oriental Brewery
HQ: Seoul, Korea
Year of Investment: 2009
A leading brewery in South Korea with a strong portfolio of brands including Cass, OB Golden Lager, and Cafri.
Pets at Home
HQ: Handforth, United Kingdom
Year of Investment: 2010
Pets at Home is a leading U.K.-based specialty retailer of pet food and accessories and provider of pet-related services including grooming and veterinary services.
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG
HQ: Unterföhring, Germany
Year of Investment: 2007
One of the largest successful European broadcasting groups reaching more than 63 million households. The Group’s core business is free TV, financed through advertising. Beyond its core business free TV, the company owns numerous Internet brands, has stakes in radio stations, game and new media companies, and works in related business areas such as music business, live event and artist management.
Rundong Automobile Group
HQ: Jiangsu Province, China
Year of Investment: 2010
Rundong Automobile Group is a leading car dealership company in eastern China with a diversified portfolio of renowned luxury car brands.
Samson Resources
HQ: Tulsa, OK
Year of Investment: 2011
A large privately held energy exploration and production company with interests in over 10,000 wells.
Santander Consumer USA
HQ: Dallas, TX
Year of Investment: 2011
Santander Consumer USA Inc. is a leading company in the automotive finance sector, whose core business is indirect, direct and third-party originations and servicing of auto loans.
7 West Media
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Year of Investment: 2006
Seven West Media is the leading, listed national multi-platform media business based in Australia, comprising Seven Television, the leading free to air capital city television network; Pacific Magazines, the country's second largest magazine group by readership; Yahoo!7 one of the nation’s most successful internet platforms, as well as Western Australia's leading newspaper, The West Australian and associated WA regional newspapers and radio stations.
Sino Prosperity Real Estate Platform
HQ: Hong Kong, China
Year of Investment: 2011
Sino Prosperity is a jointly formed real estate investment platform between KKR and Sino-Ocean Land, a leading Chinese real estate company.
Sonos
HQ: Santa Barbara, CA
Year of Investment: 2012
Sonos is a leading provider of wireless audio and home theater products for the connected home. The Company’s unique multi-room wireless technology and proprietary software allow users to easily play and stream audio and video content throughout the home.
Sorgenia France
HQ: Maisons-Laffitte, France
Year of Investment: 2011
Sorgenia France is a leading wind farm owner/operator in France with an operating assets portfolio of 152.6 MW (spread across 15 wind farms) and an authorized assets portfolio of 94.9 MW (spread across nine wind farms).
SunGard Data Systems, Inc.
HQ: Wayne, PA
Year of Investment: 2005
Global leader in integrated software and processing solutions.
SunTap Energy Re LLC
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Year of Investment: 2011
A joint venture with Recurrent Energy to invest in solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities, including a portfolio of facilities serving the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
Sunrise Senior Living
HQ: McLean, VA
Year of Investment: 2013
Sunrise is a leading manager and operator of senior housing communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Tarkett S.A.
HQ: Nanterre, France
Year of Investment: 2007
Designs, manufactures and sells PVC, wood, laminate, sports and other specialty flooring products for the residential and commercial markets in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South American, and Australia.
TASC
HQ: Chantilly, VA
Year of Investment: 2009
A premier provider of advanced systems engineering and integration services across the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and civilian agencies of the federal government.
TDC A/S
HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark
Year of Investment: 2006
A leading provider of telecommunications solutions in Denmark with significant commercial activity across Norway, Finland, and Sweden in the business segment.
Toys“R”Us, Inc.
HQ: Wayne, NJ
Year of Investment: 2005
Toys “R” Us is one of the world’s leading specialty toy and juvenile products retailers, selling merchandise globally through more than 1,600 stores in over 34 countries, and through the company’s websites.
T-Solar Global Operating Assets
HQ: Madrid, Spain
Year of Investment: 2011
T-Solar Global Operating Assets is one of the largest solar photovoltaic operating platform in Europe with 168 MW of installed capacity across Spain and Italy.
TVS Logistics Services Ltd.
HQ: Chennai, India
Year of Investment: 2012
TVS is one of India's leading third-party logistics companies with expertise in end-to-end supply chain management services, including inbound & outbound logistics, warehousing, material handling services, value added services such as sub-assemblies and supply chain management consultation, focusing primarily on auto and other industrial customers in India and overseas (chiefly the UK, US, Spain, Germany and Thailand).
U.N Ro-Ro
HQ: Istanbul, Turkey
Year of Investment: 2007
A Mediterranean short-sea roll-on/roll-off (“ro-ro”) ferry operator and market leader for trucked cargo between Turkey and Europe.
US Foods
HQ: Chicago, IL
Year of Investment: 2007
The second-largest broadline foodservice distributor in the U.S., providing food and related products to independent restaurants, healthcare and hospitality customers, educational institutions and prominent multi-unit restaurant companies.
United Envirotech Limited
HQ: China
Year of Investment: 2011
United Envirotech Limited is a leading water treatment and recycling solution provider in China, providing EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) services to municipal and industrial waste water treatment projects, and operator of a portfolio of waste-water treatment plants across China.
Van Gansewinkel Groep bv
HQ: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Year of Investment: 2006
The largest waste management and processing company in the Benelux, engaging in the collection and processing of waste into raw materials and energy. The company serves a diverse range of industries and specializes in recycling waste including electronics, solids, paper, glass, foil, paper/cardboard, construction and demolition materials, wood, plastic and hazardous waste. The company also involves in collecting and destructing material containing confidential information. The company has operations in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Poland, France, Hungary, and Portugal.
VATS Liquor Chain Store Management Co, Ltd.
HQ: Beijing, China
Year of Investment: 2010
VATS Liquor Store is the largest nationwide liquor store chain operator in China. The company operates more than 270 liquor stores covering all provinces in mainland China and offers high quality liquor products through an extensive nationwide retail network. In addition, the company owns sole distribution rights to a diversified portfolio of leading Chinese liquor brands and distributes a number of local and international premium products.
Versatel
HQ: Düsseldorf, Germany
Year of Investment: 2011
Versatel is a leading provider of infrastructure based telecommunications services in the German market.
Visant Corporation
HQ: Armonk, NY
Year of Investment: 2004
A leading marketing and publishing services enterprise servicing the school affinity, direct marketing, fragrance and cosmetics sampling, and educational and trade publishing segments.
Visma
HQ: Oslo, Norway
Year of Investment: 2010
A leading Norwegian-based technology company that delivers ERP software and services such as accounting, tax and payroll applications, to over 300,000 SME customers in the Nordic region.
Weld North Holdings LLC
HQ: Greenwich, CT
Year of Investment: 2011
Weld North Holdings LLC is a partnership with Jonathan Grayer, former Chairman & CEO of Kaplan, Inc., concentrating on education, health and wellness, consumer services and marketing businesses.
WILD
HQ: Zug, Switzerland
Year of Investment: 2010
WILD is a leading private producer of natural flavours, ingredients and systems to the food and beverage industry.
Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG
HQ: Geislingen an der Steige, Germany
Year of Investment: 2012
Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG (WMF) and headquartered in Geislingen / Steige, Germany was founded in 1853 and is a leading provider of home kitchen and tableware with a strong presence in Germany and internationally. WMF is also a global market leader for professional fully automated coffee machines and hotel kitchen and tableware equipment.
Yageo Corporation
HQ: Taipei, Taiwan
TAIEX: 2327
Year of Investment: 2007
A world-class provider of passive-component products including Capacitors, Resistors and Ferrites, etc., with production mainly based in Asia and sales capabilities on a global scale in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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Disclaimer: The portfolio companies shown represent substantially all of KKR’s existing portfolio companies as of September 20, 2012. Certain portfolio companies have been excluded due to private market transactions. The specific portfolio companies identified are not representative of all of the portfolio companies purchased, sold, or recommended for KKR Funds and it should not be assumed that the investment in the portfolio companies identified was or will be profitable. Actual holdings will vary for each KKR Fund and there is no guarantee that a particular KKR Fund will hold any or all of the portfolio companies listed.
