Capstone Partners served as exclusive financial advisor to The Home Service Store, Inc. (“HSS”), a rapidly growing, asset light home improvement solutions provider, in the sale to Roark Capital Group.
HSS is a nationwide platform providing consumers with reliable, end-to-end solutions for the purchase and installation of big ticket, do-it-for-me home improvement products and projects.
By leveraging its nationwide network of contractors and its high value systems infrastructure, HSS enables a cross section of America’s most respected retailers and building products manufacturers to offer their customers turn-key home improvement project solutions.
Capstone Partners originated and executed the sale of HSS to Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm with deep consumer services and retail expertise.
HSS was a portfolio company of Jupiter Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm with approximately $600 million of capital invested.
HSS is a unique model combining elements of brand retailing, outsourced business services and supply chain management. [Capstone Partners]’s nuanced understanding of and ability to craft a compelling thesis around our business, combined with their extraordinary buyer relationships, led to a terrific transaction for HSS. [Capstone]’s marketing materials clearly articulated our unique, asset light value proposition in the home improvement project supply chain. They engineered elegant solutions to the inevitable challenges that arose and drove a complex transaction to a very successful conclusion. We could not be more pleased with the outcome [Capstone Partners] achieved for our Company.
