Overview
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice was founded on a simple premise: Good businesses are built with trustworthy partners, experienced managers and sound financial underpinnings. Since 1978, we have never wavered from these principles.
Today CD&R is among the most respected private equity firms in the world, and our investors include leading financial institutions, university endowments and corporate and public pension funds.
CD&R helps management teams transform businesses. Our firm’s record is based on a culture of operations that is unparalleled in the private equity world. As a long-term partner, we encourage and support managers as they work to grow profits and improve returns. The Firm’s approach to creating value – combining sophisticated investment and financial insight with highly informed and experienced operating wherewithal – sets CD&R apart from the many private equity firms that rely solely on financial engineering or farm out operating management responsibilities to consultants. Approximately 90% of the value created by CD&R is a product of operational enhancements, as measured by EBITDA growth¹.
Our professionals include both seasoned financial professionals and senior executives with extensive experience leading large global businesses. In describing our investment model, the Harvard Business Review observed that CD&R provides important “insights into what constitutes best practice in the ownership and governance of corporate enterprises.” ²
CD&R’s investments span a number of industry segments with enterprise values ranging from $1 billion to $15 billion. We invest in market leaders where significant value can be created through underlying business building. Some of our investments have become definitive case studies in business transformation, including our landmark purchase from IBM of what is now Lexmark International, a publicly traded global inkjet printer manufacturer, and the $15 billion acquisition of rental car leader Hertz from Ford Motor Company.
Since 1978, many corporations, CEOs and entrepreneurs have turned to CD&R as their trusted partner. For example, global corporations such as Altria, DuPont, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Gillette, The Home Depot, IBM, Merck KGaA, Norfolk Southern, PPR, Royal Ahold, Telecom Italia, Veolia, Westinghouse and Xerox have selected CD&R as the buyer of choice for large divisions that no longer fit with their core strategies.
Our goal is to maintain our special position in the private equity industry by never wavering from the unique vision and values upon which the firm was founded.
¹ Includes all fully realized investments from Fund IV to present
² Harvard Business Review, May - June 1995
Note: For a complete list of new investments since 2001, see our Investments.
The information on these pages is intended solely for the benefit of persons who might be aware of investment opportunities that might interest CD&R. CD&R’s services are provided only to a limited number of private investment funds; CD&R does not make its services available to the public.
Overview
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice was founded on a simple premise: Good businesses are built with trustworthy partners, experienced managers and sound financial underpinnings. Since 1978, we have never wavered from these principles.
Today CD&R is among the most respected private equity firms in the world, and our investors include leading financial institutions, university endowments and corporate and public pension funds.
CD&R helps management teams transform businesses. Our firm’s record is based on a culture of operations that is unparalleled in the private equity world. As a long-term partner, we encourage and support managers as they work to grow profits and improve returns. The Firm’s approach to creating value – combining sophisticated investment and financial insight with highly informed and experienced operating wherewithal – sets CD&R apart from the many private equity firms that rely solely on financial engineering or farm out operating management responsibilities to consultants. Approximately 90% of the value created by CD&R is a product of operational enhancements, as measured by EBITDA growth¹.
Our professionals include both seasoned financial professionals and senior executives with extensive experience leading large global businesses. In describing our investment model, the Harvard Business Review observed that CD&R provides important “insights into what constitutes best practice in the ownership and governance of corporate enterprises.” ²
CD&R’s investments span a number of industry segments with enterprise values ranging from $1 billion to $15 billion. We invest in market leaders where significant value can be created through underlying business building. Some of our investments have become definitive case studies in business transformation, including our landmark purchase from IBM of what is now Lexmark International, a publicly traded global inkjet printer manufacturer, and the $15 billion acquisition of rental car leader Hertz from Ford Motor Company.
Since 1978, many corporations, CEOs and entrepreneurs have turned to CD&R as their trusted partner. For example, global corporations such as Altria, DuPont, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Gillette, The Home Depot, IBM, Merck KGaA, Norfolk Southern, PPR, Royal Ahold, Telecom Italia, Veolia, Westinghouse and Xerox have selected CD&R as the buyer of choice for large divisions that no longer fit with their core strategies.
Our goal is to maintain our special position in the private equity industry by never wavering from the unique vision and values upon which the firm was founded.
¹ Includes all fully realized investments from Fund IV to present
² Harvard Business Review, May - June 1995
Note: For a complete list of new investments since 2001, see our Investments.
The information on these pages is intended solely for the benefit of persons who might be aware of investment opportunities that might interest CD&R. CD&R’s services are provided only to a limited number of private investment funds; CD&R does not make its services available to the public.
