November 20, 2017, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, USA – Private equity firm Blue Equity (blueequity.com) has announced that it has acquired Kentucky-based spirits, beer and wine retailer Liquor Barn (www.liquorbarn.com) from Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd., a publicly traded company based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. As a part of the transaction, the corporate offices and all operations of…
Gilford●Johnson Flooring, a portfolio company of Blue Equity, LLC (www.gilfordjohnson.com), announced today that it has purchased Mastercraft Flooring Distributors, one of South Florida’s leading floor covering distributors and a long-time fixture in the industry. Gilford●Johnson Flooring is one of the industry’s largest business-to-business residential, commercial, and architectural flooring wholesale distributors. Blue Equity, LLC, the majority…
September 19, 2017, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – Blue Equity has announced that it has acquired Two Twelve Management (www.two12.com) as it continues to expand its representation and entertainment businesses. Two Twelve Management is based in New York City and is one of the premier, full-service chef representation management, advisory and consultancy companies in the industry, focused on…
Globecomm Systems Inc., a Hauppauge-based satellite communications company, has been sold to an investor group led by Manhattan-based HPS Investment Partners LLC and funds affiliated with Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC, based in Santa Monica, California. Financial terms of the sale by Globecomm’s private equity owner, Manhattan-based Wasserstein & Co., were not disclosed. Wasserstein & Co.…
By Liz Mullen of SportsBusiness Journal The business of representing sports broadcasters, once made up of boutique firms in New York and scattered player agents representing a few clients in second-career broadcast work, has over the last five years become more specialized and more centralized. And that center is becoming Los Angeles, home to the…
A U.S. talent agency hopes to become the first American company to recruit Cubans on a ‘large scale’ in decades By Suzette Laboy Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean, is ripe with the talented artists Jonathon Blue is looking for. “For that many people with that education level and literacy rate, we think it…
KanXuk Blue Maya Resort is the First Intimate Eco-Conscious Luxury Resort with Five Star Amenities Located on the Caribbean Coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula FEBRUARY 28, 2017, QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO – Today, KanXuk (pronounced kän shu̇k) Blue Maya Resort (www.bluemayaresort.com) is announcing the opening of its luxury resort located in the Sian Ka’an biosphere coastline…
JULY 22, 2016, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – Blue Equity Publishing, LLC a division of Blue Equity, LLC, announced today that it has sold its publishing assets, including The Voice-Tribune, The Voice of Louisville and Modern Louisville publications to Lifestyle Media, LLC, the owner and publisher of LEO Weekly. Blue Equity Publishing, LLC is a premier, full…
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May 25, 2016, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – Blue Equity (blueequity.com) has announced that it has acquired 3 Kings Entertainment (www.3kingsentertainment.net) as it continues to add to its platform in the sports and entertainment industry. 3 Kings Entertainment is based in Washington, D.C. and is one of the premier, full-service broadcasting talent agencies in the industry, focused…
Excerpted from the USA Today story by Alan Gomez MIAMI — A U.S. talent agency signed a contract in Havana on Monday to work with a Cuban entrepreneur, a seemingly simple deal that marks a big change in the relationship between the two countries. Jonathan Blue, chairman and managing director of the Louisville-based investment firm Blue…
Jonathan Blue’s response to Private Funds Management’s Monthly Challenge was featured in the August issue and is excerpted below. The challenge: Following a half-century of hostility, relations between the US and Cuba are finally warming up. Last month, full diplomatic relations between the two sovereigns were restored, and in May, the US government removed Cuba from the…