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Consumer & Retail

Delivering solutions in M&A, Capital Raising, and Restructuring

Stifel Consumer & Retail Group

Advisory and capital-raising services for leading public and private companies across all key consumer verticals.

The Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group provides a range of advisory and capital-raising services to leading public and private companies (Financial Sponsor and closely held) and Board of Director advisory services across all key consumer verticals. The Consumer & Retail Group offers its domestic and international clients advice and execution on public offerings, private capital, leveraged finance, mergers & acquisitions, restructurings, and other financial advisory services, including fairness opinions.

Areas of Expertise

Apparel, Footwear & Accessories

Stifel provides full-service investment banking for apparel, footwear, and accessories brands and retailers, including those in the luxury, lifestyle, sports and technical, and jewelry markets. Through deep industry relationships and years of experience, Stifel is able to offer creative solutions and sound advice to companies at every stage of growth.

Automotive Aftermarket

Stifel works with companies at every point of the automotive aftermarket supply chain, including repair and maintenance, collision services, tires, enthusiast products, car wash, dealerships, and technology. Extensive sector experience and intimate industry knowledge enable Stifel bankers to provide consistently sound advice and solutions for public offerings, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and more.

Cannabis

Stifel’s Cannabis investment banking group is a leading franchise in the sector. We are active across cannabis ancillary verticals and transaction types, including public equity, SPACs, M&A, and other advisory and capital markets assignments. Stifel’s Cannabis team advises companies globally – from the U.S. to Europe, Canada, and Latin America. We have deep connectivity across every cannabis category and are part of the conversation with virtually all leading industry participants. Cannabis is among the fastest-growing industries and the Stifel Cannabis group is an experienced partner with a proven track record of success.

Consumer Products

The Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group works with companies that distribute a range of hardgood products, including: household and kitchen products, pet and garden, outdoor recreation, audio and instruments, toys and juvenile, health and wellness, and home furnishing products. Our track record of success in assisting ownership and management of Consumer Products businesses across a diverse size range is based on a senior, hands-on approach, that is tailored to each situation.

Entertainment

Stifel’s Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group offers full-service investment banking solutions to leading public and private companies in the entertainment sector, including those in sports, leisure, experiential, eSports gaming, and travel. Stifel offers both domestic and international clients advice and execution on public offerings, private capital, leveraged finance, mergers & acquisitions, restructurings, and more.

Food & Beverage

The Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group serves as a trusted advisor for domestic and international companies at every stage of growth in the Food & Beverage sector, including those in agribusiness, baking, beverages, coffee & tea, distribution, dairy, food safety, foodservice, grains & milling, grocery & other retail, ingredients & flavors, produce, protein producers, seafood & aquaculture, other food products, and snacks & confectionary.

Household & Personal Care

The Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group works with numerous organizations in the household, beauty and personal care sector, including those in haircare, skincare, color cosmetics, OTC, health and wellness and household consumables (HPC). Stifel offers both domestic and international clients advice and execution on public offerings, private capital raises, leveraged finance, mergers & acquisitions, restructurings, and more. With deep expertise and a track record of success in the HPC sector, Stifel is the partner of choice for mid-sized HPC organizations.

Restaurants

From quick service and fast casual restaurants to upscale and fine dining establishments, Stifel’s Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group is a trusted partner and advisor to restaurants of every type. With deep industry relationships and proven expertise, Stifel is an invaluable partner to restaurants at every stage of growth.

Retail

The Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group provides a range of advisory and capital-raising services to leading public and private retail companies in the following subsectors: Specialty, E-Commerce, Marketplaces, Broadlines, Hardlines, Softlines. Stifel offers both domestic and international clients advice and execution on public offerings, private capital, leveraged finance, mergers & acquisitions, restructurings, and more.

Tobacco

Stifel’s Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group has extensive experience working with companies in both the traditional tobacco and next-generation tobacco spaces. In such a rapidly evolving market, a trusted partner like Stifel is invaluable for smooth and fair mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and more.

Best-in-class M&A, capital raising, restructuring, and advisory services for leading consumer and retail organizations.

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Notable Transactions

Cafe William_ Fonds
Mergers & Acquisitions
Food & Beverage | February 2024
CollisionRight_Summit Partners MA
Mergers & Acquisitions
Automotive Aftermarket | January 2024
Dobbs Tire Auto Centers SSCF
Senior Secured Credit Faciltity
Automotive Aftermarket | December 2023
Audax_Dobbs MA
Mergers & Acquisitions
Automotive Aftermarket | December 2023
Eurofase_BeachPoint MA
Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer & Retail | December 2023
ic Berlin_Marcolin MA
Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer, Technology | November 2023
Audeze_Sony
Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer Products | October 2023
Dutch Bros Follow-on

$ 300,000,000

Follow-on Offering
Restaurants | September 2023
Rockport_Authentic_MarcFisher MA
Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer Products | August 2023
Ace Beverage_Corby MA

C$ 165,000,000

Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer Products | July 2023
Cava Group IPO

$ 365,444,420

Initial Public Offering
Restaurants | June 2023
Checkers Recapitalization

$ 315,000,000

Recapitalization
Restaurants | June 2023
OneSpaWorld Follow-on

$ 90,000,000

Follow-on Offering
Consumer Products | May 2023
Sunbloom_Avril MA
Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer | April 2023
Custom Wheel House_Fox Factory MA
Mergers & Acquisitions
Automotive Aftermarket | March 2023
TPB Acquisition_Lavoro MA

$ 1,220,000,000

Mergers & Acquisitions
Food & Beverage | February 2023
American’s Test Kitchen Senior Secured Notes
Senior Secured Notes
Food & Beverage | February 2023
Things Remembered_1800Flowers MA
Sale of E-commerce Assets to
Consumer Products | January 2023
APA_PNC Riverarch MA
Mergers & Acquistions
Automotive Aftermarket | January 2023
Enesco_NECA MA
Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer Products | December 2022
First Watch Follow-on

$ 69,750,000

Follow-on Offering
Food & Beverage | September 2022
Westrock Coffee_Riverview MA

$ 1,085,600,000

Business Combination
Food & Beverage | August 2022
Celsius Pepsico MA

$ 550,000,000

Has Received a Minority Investment from
Consumer Products | August 2022
Else Follow-on CMO

C$ 7,287,000

Follow-on Offering
Consumer & Retail | June 2022
Poda_Altria_MA

$ 100,500,000

Asset Sale
Cannabis | May 2022
Freshpet Follow-on

$ 350,000,000

Follow-on Offering
Consumer Products | May 2022
SoundUnited_Masimo M&A

$ 1,025,000,000

Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer Products | April 2022
Valens Follow-on March

C$ 32,343,743

Follow-on Offering
Consumer & Retail | March 2022
Garden State Bulb_Staple Street M&A
Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer Products | March 2022
Cloyes_MidOcean M&A
Mergers & Acquisitions
Automotive Aftermarket | February 2022
Tristar_Spectrum M&A

$ 325,000,000

Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer Products | February 2022
Silver Spike IPO

$ 85,000,000

Initial Public Offering
Consumer Products | February 2022
Unbound Group

£ 30,000,000

Transfer of Listing to AIM
Consumer | February 2022
PreBrands_Champlain M&A
Mergers & Acquisitions
Food & Beverage | December 2021
ReadyWise_Goode M&A
Mergers & Acquisitions
Food & Beverage | December 2021
Spree SPAC IPO

$ 200,000,000

SPAC IPO
Automotive Aftermarket | December 2021
Bonlook_FYIDoctors M&A
Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer & Retail | December 2021
PerTronix_Charger MA
Mergers & Acquisitions
Automotive Aftermarket | December 2021
Clarus Follow-on

$ 74,250,000

Follow-on Offering
Consumer Products | October 2021
Else Follow-on Offering

C$ 17,307,500

Follow-on Offering
Consumer & Retail | October 2021
Schultze SPAC IPO

$ 165,000,000

SPAC Initial Public Offering
Consumer Products | October 2021
ACON S2

$ 250,000,000

Initial Public Offering
Consumer Products | October 2021
First Watch IPO

$ 195,801,300

Initial Public Offering
Consumer Products | October 2021
Covercraft_Audax
Mergers & Acquisitions
Automotive Aftermarket | August 2021
Traeger IPO

$ 424,000,000

Initial Public Offering
Consumer Products | July 2021
Coliseum IPO

$ 150,000,000

Initial Public Offering
Entertainment | June 2021
PLBY Group Follow-on

$ 249,700,000

Follow-on
Consumer Products | June 2021
Valens Follow-on

C$ 46,004,990

Follow-on Offering
Consumer Products | May 2021
BlueGreen M&A

$ 723,000,000

Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer & Retail | May 2021
The Collected Group 05-2020
Chapter 11 Restructuring
Consumer Products | May 2021
Performance Designed Products 04-2021
Mergers & Acquisitions
Retail | April 2021
Studio Retail Group 04-2021

£ 30,000,000

Mergers & Acquisitions
Retail | April 2021
Curls Beauty Brands/Beauty Imagination 03-2021
Has Received a Strategy Advisory
Consumer Products | March 2021
AeroGrow/Scotts Miracle Grow 02-2021

$ 102,100,000

Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer Products | February 2021
Freshpet  02-2021

$ 300,300,000

Follow-on Offering
Consumer Products | February 2021
Corsair Gaming 01-2021

$ 262,500,000

Follow-on Offering
Gaming & Leisure | January 2021
Tastemaker Acquisition Corp 01-2021

$ 240,000,000

Initial Public Offering
Restaurants | January 2021
The Wheel Group 12-2020

$ 152,500,000

Senior Secured Credit Facility
Automotive Aftermarket | December 2020
Haymaker/Arko 12-2020

$ 2,000,000,000

Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer Products | December 2020
Frank and Oak/Unified Commerce Group 12-2020
Mergers & Acquisitions
Apparel, Footwear & Accessories | December 2020
The Wheel Group 12-2020
Mergers & Acquisitions
Automotive Aftermarket | December 2020
Southeastern Paper Group_Envoy MA
Mergers & Acquisitions
Food & Beverage | December 2020
Tuesday Morning 12-2020

$ 91,000,000

Restructuring
Retail | December 2020
Southeastern Paper Group 12-2020
Mergers & Acquisitions
Food & Beverage | December 2020
Hydrofarm Holdings 12-2020
Initial Public Offering
Cannabis | December 2020
GrowGeneration 12-2020

$ 172,500,000

Follow-on Offering
Cannabis | December 2020
RedMonkey/NEP 12-2020
Mergers & Acquisitions
Food & Beverage | December 2020
Urban Farmer/Paine Schwartz 12-2020
Mergers & Acquisitions
Food & Beverage | December 2020
Fire& Flower Holdings/Friendly Stranger Holdings 12-2020

C$ 30,000,000

Merger & Acquisitions
Cannabis | December 2020
CBC Restaurant 11-2020

$ 100,000,000

Mergers & Acquisitions
Restaurants | November 2020
The Collected Group 11-2020

$ 32,000,000

Senior Secured Credit Facility
Apparel, Footwear & Accessories | November 2020
Vital Farms 11-2020

$ 151,250,000

Follow-on Offering
Food & Beverage | November 2020
ACON S2 09-2020

$ 250,000,000

Initial Public Offering
Consumer Products | September 2020
Corsair Gaming 09-2020

$ 238,000,000

Initial Public Offering
Entertainment | September 2020
Grand Cosmetics/Lash Hold 09-2020
Mergers & Acquisitions
Household & Personal Care | September 2020
Chairish 09-2020

$ 33,000,000

Private Placement
Apparel, Footwear & Accessories | September 2020
Vital Farms 07-2020

$ 204,700,000

Initial Public Offering
Food & Beverage | July 2020
Ember Technologies 07-2020
Private Placement
Consumer Products | July 2020
PharmaCielo Follow-on
Follow-on Offering
Cannabis | June 2020
Flow Water Inc. (GMP) 05-2020

$ 40,000,000

Private Placement
Consumer Products | May 2020
Verde Farms 02-2020
Mergers & Acquisitions
Food & Beverage | February 2020
Bailey 44 LLC/Denim 02-2020
Mergers & Acquisitions
Apparel, Footwear & Accessories | February 2020
Top Media_JCDecaux
Mergers & Acquisitions
Entertainment | December 2016
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