“McColl Partners’ ability to structure a process that provided value-maximizing solutions to our founders, distributor base, and Neways’ employees allowed us to accomplish this transaction in a tight time frame and ensure that divergent objectives were met and exceeded. Through McColl Partners’ leadership, all the constituents teamed up, and the result was a highly successful transaction.”

Eric Larsen
Chief Executive Officer
Neways International

“Neways’ culture of innovation and its highly effective distributor compensation program has facilitated significant growth and a market leadership position internationally. Neways anticipates continued robust growth supported in part through ongoing development of innovative products and leading technology.”

Lorin DeMordaunt
Managing Director
McColl Partners, LLC

About Neways International
Headquartered in Springville, Utah, Neways is among the preeminent and fastest-growing multilevel marketing companies in the world with over $600 million in global sales. Based on their innovative approach to consumer demands, Leslie DeeAnn Mower and Tom Mower founded the Company in 1987, pioneering Neways’ safe ingredient philosophy. Neways continues to be committed to the manufacture and distribution of effective nutritional and personal care products to over 20 countries worldwide.

About Golden Gate Capital
Golden Gate Capital is a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm with approximately $3.0 billion of capital under management. The principals of Golden Gate have a long and successful history of investing with management partners across a wide range of industries and transaction types, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate divestitures and spin-offs, build-ups, and venture stage investing.

About McColl Partners
McColl Partners is an independent investment banking firm specializing in the needs of management and owners of middle-market companies. With significant experience working with private equity groups, entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, public companies, and divisions of larger companies, the firm is dedicated to offering strategic advice and assistance to its clients regarding mergers and acquisitions and private capital raising assignments.

To learn more about our expertise in the consumer products and multilevel marketing industries, please contact Lorin DeMordaunt, Jamie Lewin, or Brian Davis at
704-333-0525. More information about McColl Partners can be found at http://www.mccollpartners.com/.