Industry Preferences

Over our 20+ year history, Goldner Hawn has invested across a wide spectrum of industry segments. Historically, approximately half of our investments have been in industrial and business service segments such as precision components, industrial equipment, and logistics services, and the other half in consumer-driven industry segments such as food, retail, and restaurants.

Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison's primary focus is on new investments and on add-on investments for Marathon Fund V portfolio companies. GHJ&M has a history of successful investments in a variety of business areas and is now particularly interested in investments in the industrial and business service sectors, and in food, transportation, distribution and agribusiness enterprises that can benefit from the experience of our principals.

Goldner Hawn Private Equity maintains a relatively tight focus on particular industrial and consumer sectors. In the current environment, our industrial focus is on businesses that are tied, directly or indirectly, to a recovery in the global economy driven largely by continuing secular growth trends in emerging markets around the world. We favor businesses serving global-oriented end-markets such as energy, mining and basic materials, power generation/transmission, food processing and agribusiness, aerospace and defense, and medical products. On the consumer side, our current emphasis is on businesses that could be expected to perform well in an environment where consumer spending lags the overall economic recovery to some extent; examples include private label consumer products companies, companies engaged in manufacturing or distribution of food products, and companies offering products or services that are “small ticket” and/or less discretionary in nature.

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