Subject: Turning the Lights Back on in Manufacturing Cities
From: "Tom Croft" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:02:38 -0400 (EDT)

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April 12, 2017
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Turning the Lights Back On In Manufacturing Cities

Dear H,
We're excited to bring you the great news that KPS was just awarded the "Deal of
 the Year" for its turnaround of Anchor Glass, saving 2,000 manufacturing and union
jobs in Heartland states like Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, Illinois and elsewhere.
And, we're thrilled to bring you an exclusive interview with Michael Musuraca, Senior
Advisor of ESG and Labor at Blue Wolf Capital Partners, LLC, and one of the labor
movement's highest flying aviators of responsible investment.
We're also humbled to share a recent article on SVA (Heartland's host) and its Strategic
Early Warning Network (SEWN), in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that focuses on saving
the critical federal programs that support manufacturing innovation and jobs (from
Trump Administration proposed budget cuts), and an archived Ted Talk with Olivier
Scalabre, from Paris, who speaks incisively about the "fourth manufacturing revolution."
Visit our Heartland Network website [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001eVuPRxsnAa8w-RwyrB6SeGzgavf6UYNsYpQGzFlLQHgODYou9eiRmFY35r9KdeKKJ0AAjR_t2wmRXiaIzUBwXV-h_gqe3S3-vX_qxJi62N3P2kb0anwioYXY4g1joe2V_zIvMoLgLg1JwBlEEAHH3TErPKjht7BEfD9CwrdNjFMH2UCOofu-RA==&c=_qx5BGki-jy32SSG3t0NYKIxsCQBN7XFwQ31Ff92jdH5V2zik528tg==&ch=M1_wFMhwpVkLjm4OW-5k-oiRuWrBdDkFFYBtdcpZb29sVArcGYtHqQ==]
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ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS

Sleigh Strategy, LLC
Robert Samuel
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KPS Deal of the Year!
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KPS  Capital Partners' success with Anchor Glass Container stemmed from a  combination
of actions, led by KPS and company management. The moves  helped the bottle maker
boost EBITDA nearly 59 percent in less than  three years, said Jay Bernstein, a 
partner at KPS.
The  New York buyout shop acquired Anchor Glass, which makes glass packaging  products
used by the liquor, beverage and food sectors, as a carve-out  from Ardagh Group
 in 2014. The deal was valued at $435 million. KPS,  along with its LPs, invested
$140 million equity.
The  PE firm's buy of Anchor Glass surprised some. The company had filed for  bankruptcy
three times in the past 20 or so years. Anchor Glass's last  trip through Chapter
11 came in 2005, when it was owned by Cerberus  Capital Management. [READ MORE] 
[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001eVuPRxsnAa8w-RwyrB6SeGzgavf6UYNsYpQGzFlLQHgODYou9eiRmLrTpJp5ExbFAPhbe-nCnWVWeR98fuDn0m-sYKgPwhVETgOG2-Kd2qIRXE3_mZp5ormLOJFTrnkX_hDsUP_0hvtmPma6L-d-1pp-g-OqiZi3IGsPNrE8NtdM_CK1-3OMnpGAE6bBNMmGBWN520ONOMnNirnKWCQm5o8rTWqEuIOKJ8QSZRScjVtzel0NL3bpWPdWD3rjrfjGXRhg5m37Lug7o3im6C-iKKcrdGWaBzliEb8RuT-R_38=&c=_qx5BGki-jy32SSG3t0NYKIxsCQBN7XFwQ31Ff92jdH5V2zik528tg==&ch=M1_wFMhwpVkLjm4OW-5k-oiRuWrBdDkFFYBtdcpZb29sVArcGYtHqQ==]
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Investor Profile:  Michael Musuraca, Blue Wolf Capital Partners, LLC
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Michael Musuraca is Senior Advisor of ESG and Labor of Blue Wolf Capital Partners
LLC. The Blue Wolf Capital Funds (www.bluewolfcapital.com [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001eVuPRxsnAa8w-RwyrB6SeGzgavf6UYNsYpQGzFlLQHgODYou9eiRmGD40dgtP0s6eKqqfcvhnYMrroJdvOpk4fPnKNTjHKVXtydQ13L4AJkcA9tMT6MixDMNOcJPWEnh2cdxQEM3C6J_BTXiRA9o71t-YvuKxdyer6Y1MTN7mdjjN9cNnqXjXA==&c=_qx5BGki-jy32SSG3t0NYKIxsCQBN7XFwQ31Ff92jdH5V2zik528tg==&ch=M1_wFMhwpVkLjm4OW-5k-oiRuWrBdDkFFYBtdcpZb29sVArcGYtHqQ==])
 are a family of innovative private equity funds that have committed to  responsibly
transforming companies, strategically, operationally and  collaboratively, to create
sustainable value for stakeholders and  investors.  Mike is an internationally known
leader in the fields of  responsible investing, pension fund and corporate governance,
and  collective bargaining, and advises BW's partners and portfolio companies  on
these matters.
From  previous articles in the Thursday Espresso, we know that BW (editor's  note:
BW is a long-time Heartland sponsor), aims to manage challenging  situations and
 complex relationships between business, customers,  employees, unions and regulators
to generate superior returns and build  value for stakeholders.  The firm includes
investment professionals with  extensive private equity investing experience, senior
government  service, and working with and for organized labor. [READ INTERVIEW] 
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Trump Budget puts Lifelines for Manufacturers on Chopping Block
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Aero  Tech Designs, a young but growing manufacturer of athletic wear for  bicyclists,
wanted to adopt more efficient techniques to grow into a new  facility on the North
Shore.
Bollman  Hat Co., a hat maker based in Adamstown, Pa., needed to see that the  remarkable
decision to haul equipment back from China - and bring jobs  once again to Pennsylvania
- made business sense.
Both  companies recently turned to a relatively unknown government-funded  support
system with a record of helping small to mid-size manufacturers  stay in business
and grow jobs.
Namely,  two Reagan-era programs have saved more than 6,000 Pennsylvania jobs in
  the last five years and boast a 9-to-1 return on federal  investment. Because 
of those marks, they have earned bipartisan support  at the state and local level
in particularly divided political times. [READ MORE] [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001eVuPRxsnAa8w-RwyrB6SeGzgavf6UYNsYpQGzFlLQHgODYou9eiRmLrTpJp5ExbFXwWtzGsGIsgXuLt_GT_TIMuKR-hQWDiGPd3kRl1xoyTY9JXNl28Z7igiodUMkVI6M3IKb5Ja59u2YUR55urqkJN92geyN87Osc8f7HC0eWabI9K6E4TtxSY-cpp-8g_QI-pAMXIq4pbzhVoHC6F9BfergcaewrQkOEojSPADIWGhb37b_JdmES-_jQxGhLlcjDlIEE9g_iDSLcLMC9U1Gs4RT4Y7afQt9uV6qUk0iN8jRuz8VY2irA==&c=_qx5BGki-jy32SSG3t0NYKIxsCQBN7XFwQ31Ff92jdH5V2zik528tg==&ch=M1_wFMhwpVkLjm4OW-5k-oiRuWrBdDkFFYBtdcpZb29sVArcGYtHqQ==]
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The Next Manufacturing Revolution Is Here!
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Economic  growth has been slowing for the past 50 years, but relief might come  
from an unexpected place - a new form of manufacturing that is neither  what you
 thought it was nor where you thought it was. Industrial systems  thinker Olivier
Scalabre details how a fourth manufacturing revolution  will produce a macroeconomic
shift and boost employment, productivity  and growth.
"The  new manufacturing revolution will accelerate the transition of those  emerging
economies towards a model driven by domestic consumption. And  this is good, because
this is where growth will be created.In the next  five years, the next billion consumers
in China will inject more growth  in our economies than the top five European markets
together.
This  fourth manufacturing revolution is a chance for all of us. If we play  it 
right, we'll see sustainable growth in all of our economies. This  means more wealth
distributed to all of us and a better future for our  children." [WATCH HERE] [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001eVuPRxsnAa8w-RwyrB6SeGzgavf6UYNsYpQGzFlLQHgODYou9eiRmLrTpJp5ExbFo0UwvQF6q6t-xKfyJiqALD3S7xqrvqv4dlTqT_VwnU__hamms1p1ieXsuRy4wbFhsxNbmgghqUAt6s6Ooh5cj-bXHp3jdpOFG4ZA1QiSedy8JVtuqAxrptyOXQeGreP76uUhbdWYHpGi8tjemqS9H-g7WWOmHcyjwkmChdAu2fzWgCYGpMrK4TkD7A9ousZoiYoH4JaOj3M1vuyn_BTA9Q==&c=_qx5BGki-jy32SSG3t0NYKIxsCQBN7XFwQ31Ff92jdH5V2zik528tg==&ch=M1_wFMhwpVkLjm4OW-5k-oiRuWrBdDkFFYBtdcpZb29sVArcGYtHqQ==]
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fosters a "Community of Practice" for responsible economic impact investments. Heartland
promotes strategic responsible investments to rebuild the rebuilt environment, renew
the industrial commons, grow the clean economy, and make the boss more accountable.
Inspired  by the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI),  Heartland
Capital Strategies (HCS) promotes investments and projects  essential for revitalizing
our productive economy and community  prosperity.

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