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, the Firm has never wavered from these principles, continually delivering investment success by helping companies grow and prosper. 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 draws on its tested operating know-how, unparalleled in the private equity world, to help management teams transform their businesses. 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.
Our professionals include both seasoned investors 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.” ¹
CD&R’s investments span a number of industry segments with enterprise values ranging from $1 billion to $15 billion. Our investments are well positioned market leaders where significant value can be created through underlying business building. From our landmark purchase from IBM of what is now Lexmark International, a publicly traded global inkjet printer manufacturer, to the $15 billion acquisition of rental car leader Hertz from Ford Motor Company, CD&R has a history of helping management transform businesses.
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 be a great professional firm that holds a special position in the private equity industry because of our unique vision, values and mix of operating and financial talent. We achieve that goal by building better businesses, delivering the returns that our investors expect and remaining a trusted partner to management teams around the world.
The information on these pages is intended soley 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.
¹ Harvard Business Review, May - June 1995
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice was founded on a simple premise: Good businesses are built with trustworthy partners, experienced managers and sound financial underpinnings. Since 1978, the Firm has never wavered from these principles, continually delivering investment success by helping companies grow and prosper. 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 draws on its tested operating know-how, unparalleled in the private equity world, to help management teams transform their businesses. 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.
Our professionals include both seasoned investors 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.” ¹
CD&R’s investments span a number of industry segments with enterprise values ranging from $1 billion to $15 billion. Our investments are well positioned market leaders where significant value can be created through underlying business building. From our landmark purchase from IBM of what is now Lexmark International, a publicly traded global inkjet printer manufacturer, to the $15 billion acquisition of rental car leader Hertz from Ford Motor Company, CD&R has a history of helping management transform businesses.
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 be a great professional firm that holds a special position in the private equity industry because of our unique vision, values and mix of operating and financial talent. We achieve that goal by building better businesses, delivering the returns that our investors expect and remaining a trusted partner to management teams around the world.
The information on these pages is intended soley 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.
¹ Harvard Business Review, May - June 1995
