INVESTMENT APPROACH

Since our establishment in 2008, BIP’s principals have generated cumulative gross investment returns of approximately 7.0x ROI and over 50% IRR for our partners in building industry investments.

 
 

Overview

BIP invests its principals’ own capital, as well as that of like-minded investors, including accomplished active and retired building industry entrepreneurs. We focus on establishing long-term relationships with operators, business owners, and industry leaders.

 
 

The BIP APPROACH

 

We focus on establishing long-term relationships with operators, business owners, and industry leaders built upon respect, honesty, fairness, communication, and collaboration. Above all else, we invest with exceptional operators with proven track records of high-integrity leadership and equity value creation within their segments of expertise.

While respecting market cycles we believe in the long-run strength of the economy, building and construction markets. As a result, we capitalize businesses conservatively and seek to build businesses that can not only endure, but also find opportunity during market downturns. In an industry that often attracts opportunistic turnaround and “distressed” investors, we bring a growth-oriented and longer-term mindset.

 
 

The BIP MISSION

We believe robust Human Capital Management can better attract, retain and develop exceptional leadership talent, and functional excellence throughout our companies. This creates a strategic advantage in an industry that is labor-intensive and has longstanding labor shortages.  

 
 

Investment Criteria

Building Industry Partners is actively seeking investment opportunities for both new platform companies and add-on acquisitions. Our investment criteria include:

 

  • Building products manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and specialty service companies, serving residential and nonresidential new construction and remodeling segments

  • If you are a building industry organization in North America, we are interested in hearing from you whether you are interested in partnering in the near, medium, or longer-term.

  • Companies with $10 to $350 million in annual sales, or smaller companies with unique growth opportunities

  • We are flexible providers of equity capital, and we are comfortable in both majority and minority ownership positions. We prefer sellers/partners who want to retain a meaningful ownership stake alongside BIP post-transaction, as a means to best ensure the business’ future success.

  • We evaluate investment opportunities in a variety of situations. These include, but are not limited to:

    1. Owner-operator seeking partial liquidity or ownership transition as part of succession planning or retirement

    2. Owner-operator seeking capital for geographic expansion, products or service expansion, and/or strategic acquisitions

    3. Proven operators seeking to build a business within their niche of expertise, through acquisition of a platform company and execution of organic and/or “buy & build” growth strategies

 

Contact

BIP is actively seeking opportunities to sponsor the building products industry’s greatest operating talents in realizing their entrepreneurial visions. If you are a business owner considering a transaction, or are interested in understanding potential succession or capitalization options, please do not hesitate to contact us.