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Wahackme Group has a long and deep experience advising companies in the
consumer and retail sector dating back to the 1970's when our principals raised capital for Marshall Fields and then participated
in the defense of the company in a hostile takeover attempt by Carter Hawley Hale. Through the years, we have been involved
with numerous consumer products companies ranging in size from Rubbermaid to smaller companies like International Vitamin
and NuVim.This tradition continues today with the recent completion of a private placement for an etailer, Portero, the
IPO of Bare Escentuals and a PIPE for the international scooter manufacturer, Vmoto. In the restaurant and food industries,
we have worked with large companies like A & P, medium cap businesses like Ponderosa Steakhouse and smaller private
businesses like Specialty Coffee Holdings in raising growth capital in various public and private transactions.
Examples of Wahackme Group transactional experience in the consumer/retail sector
follows:
Bare
Escentuals | $404,000,000 Common Stock - IPO | Vmoto, Ltd. | $5,700,000
PIPE | Portero | $5,000,000 Secured Notes | Ponderosa Inc. | $31,000,000 Common Stock | ChemLawn Corporation | $15,000,000
Convertible Subordinated Debentures | Carolina
Freight Corporation | $50,000,000 6.25% Convertible Subordinated
Debentures | Culp Inc. | $14,000,000 Common Stock - IPO | SmarTel Communications, Inc. | Advised on the sale
of the company to SmarTalk Teleservices, Inc. | International
Vitamin Corporation | Advised on the acquisition of Hall
Laboratories | North Central Airlines,
Inc. | Advised on the acquisition of Southern Airways, Inc. | Specialty Coffee Holdings, Inc. | Advised on the acquisition of Nicholas Coffee Co. | Culp Inc. | Advised on successful takeover defense | Air Atlanta Inc. | Advised
on the financial restructuring of the company | Rubbermaid
Inc. | Advised on the acquisition of The Little Tikes Company | Robbins & Myers, Inc. | Advised on the sale of the Hunter Fan Company | CloseCall America, Inc. | $8,000,000 Convertible
Preferred Stock | NuVim, Inc. | $4,900,000 Convertible Preferred Stock | Robbins & Myers, Inc. | $20,000,000
Adjustable Rate Notes | Southern Airways,
Inc. | $21,000,000 9.25% Secured Notes | Marshall Fields Company | $50,000,000
Notes | A & P | $11,000,000 Secured Notes | North Central Airlines, Inc. | $45,000,000
9% Equipment Trust Certificates | | | | | | | | | | |
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