Centre Partners
Centre Partners Management LLC is a middle-market private equity firm founded in 1986. It focuses on control investments in North American businesses, primarily in consumer and healthcare, and identifies entrepreneurs, founders, and family-owned businesses as areas of focus.
What stands out about Centre Partners
Centre Partners publicly describes a control-investment strategy centered on North American consumer and healthcare businesses, with an emphasis on entrepreneur-, founder-, and family-owned companies. Its stated value-creation approach includes operating support, expansion initiatives, strategic partnerships, and add-on acquisitions.[1][2][4][5][6][7]
What does Centre Partners invest in?
Centre Partners Management LLC is a middle-market private equity firm founded in 1986, with offices in New York and Santa Monica, California. The firm specializes in control investments in North American-based businesses, primarily in the consumer and healthcare industries.
Centre Partners says it works with entrepreneurs, founders, and family-owned businesses seeking ownership-transition, capital, or succession solutions. It reports $2.7 Billion of capital invested, 91 platform companies, and 175+ add-on acquisitions, with a 38+ year track record.[1]
Centre Partners’ stated strategy is to make control investments in North American-based businesses, primarily in consumer and healthcare. Its publicly described approach includes partnering with entrepreneurs, founders, and family-owned businesses on ownership transition, capital needs, and succession planning.
The firm identifies value-creation initiatives including product-line, distribution-channel, and geographic expansion; R&D and new-product innovation; de novo development; licensing opportunities; strategic partnerships; and add-on acquisitions.[1]
Owners evaluating a financial buyer can compare the offer with independent valuation analysis, understand how acquirers approach transactions through Auxo’s buy-side M&A process guide, and consider whether a full or partial sale best fits their objectives.
What should a business owner evaluate before considering a transaction with Centre Partners?
Owners evaluating Centre Partners can examine the firm’s stated control-investment model, its focus on entrepreneur-, founder-, and family-owned businesses, and its ownership-transition and succession-planning orientation. The firm also describes operating-partner involvement in sourcing, due diligence, strategic and operational guidance, board participation, and operating roles.
Because the Our Firm page does not state transaction-size, EBITDA, or minimum-equity-check parameters, those criteria should be confirmed directly for a prospective transaction. Owners may also wish to clarify control structure, the applicable investment vehicle, consideration terms, the role of operating partners, and the intended approach to add-on acquisitions. The official contact page does not establish Centre Partners’ firm-level regulatory registration status.[1][2][4][7]
What are Centre Partners’ current target enterprise-value, EBITDA, revenue, and equity-check ranges
Does Centre Partners require majority control, and what ownership structure is typical for a transaction
Which fund or investment vehicle would make the investment, including whether Centre Strategic Solutions I is relevant
What companies does Centre Partners target?
The firm publicly emphasizes North American-based businesses and control investments. It particularly identifies entrepreneur-, founder-, and family-owned businesses as areas of focus, including companies seeking ownership-transition, capital, or succession-planning solutions.
The Our Firm page reports capital invested, platform-company count, and add-on acquisitions but does not state a target transaction-size range, EBITDA range, or minimum equity check.[1]
Centre Partners identifies consumer products and services subsectors including food and beverage, residential and commercial services, household products and personal care, and multi-unit franchises.
Its healthcare focus includes outsourced payor and provider services, regulatory, clinical and compliance services, physician practice management, behavioral health, and health and wellness. Recent official announcements also document activity involving freight logistics and field-services businesses.[1][4][6]
Centre Partners states that it invests in North American-based businesses. Its official materials list offices in New York, New York, and Santa Monica, California.[1][7]
Centre Partners describes add-on acquisitions as part of its value-creation approach and reports 175+ add-on acquisitions. Its official portfolio and transaction announcements show both platform investments and subsequent acquisition activity.
Examples include the formation of TruTemp Holdings through the acquisition of Maynor Service Company and Centre-backed United Land Services’ announcement of four acquisitions completed during 2025. Centre also announced completion of its acquisition of Navajo Expedited with Altivare Capital Partners.[1][4][5][6]
Centre Partners’ official portfolio page lists current investments including Navajo Expedited, TruTemp, Quick Roofing, Alerion Advisors, Captain D’s, United Land Services, Sabrosura Foods, One World Fitness, The IMA Group, Gathr Outdoors, and Lifetime Brands.[3]
On September 10, 2026, Centre Partners and Altivare Capital Partners announced completion of their acquisition of Navajo Expedited, a technology-enabled freight logistics services business headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. The transaction was partially funded through Centre Strategic Solutions I, which Centre describes as a vehicle for independent-sponsor transactions in the North American lower middle market.
On January 13, 2026, Centre-backed United Land Services announced four acquisitions completed during 2025: Wrightsville Beach Landscaping, H&O Grounds, Custom Tree Surgeons, and a provider of rust-removal-system installation and maintenance services.
On September 16, 2025, Centre Partners and Baldwin Creek Partners announced the formation of TruTemp Holdings through the acquisition of Maynor Service Company, creating a platform for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical-services consolidation in the Southeast.[4][5][6]
What is not clear from Centre Partners's public investment criteria?
The Our Firm page does not state a target transaction-size range, EBITDA range, or minimum equity check.
The Navajo Expedited transaction announcement does not disclose the purchase price or other consideration terms. The United Land Services announcement states that the terms of its four 2025 transactions were not disclosed. The TruTemp/Maynor announcement does not disclose purchase price or other transaction consideration terms.
Centre Partners’ official contact page provides office and inquiry information but does not establish a firm-level broker-dealer, investment-adviser, or other regulatory registration status.[1][4][5][6][7]
Questions to ask when evaluating Centre Partners as a buyer or investment partner
What are Centre Partners’ current target enterprise-value, EBITDA, revenue, and equity-check ranges?
Does Centre Partners require majority control, and what ownership structure is typical for a transaction?
Which fund or investment vehicle would make the investment, including whether Centre Strategic Solutions I is relevant?
What ownership or investment horizon and exit scenarios are contemplated?
How are founders and incumbent management expected to participate in the ownership and operating model?
What add-on acquisition pace, leverage policy, and integration resources would apply?
What regulatory registrations or affiliated entities should a prospective seller review?
Sources & research notes
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