Executive Summary

On May 14, 2019, Kroger and Lindsay Goldberg, a private investment firm, announced a collaboration to form an investment vehicle named PearlRock Partners.

• PearlRock Partners has been created to identify attractive consumer product brands, invest in them and foster their growth.
• PearlRock Partners’ main focus is to look for emerging consumer brands with strong growth potential.
• Small and extra-small consumer brands are growing sales at a much faster rate
  than bigger players.