LongWater Opportunities acquires Lewis Cabinet Specialties
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TREMONTON, Utah - LongWater Opportunities acquired Lewis Cabinet Specialties Group, LLC, the Tremonton, Utah manufacturer of custom cabinets.
 
LongWater, an operationally-focused private equity firm headquartered in Dallas, acquired the business from the Lewis family, who founded and have managed it since its inception in 1990.
 
Lewis Cabinet is a highly-automated custom cabinet manufacturer, serving residential and commercial customers throughout the United States. It manufactures fully customizable and made-to-order cabinet doors and drawer faces, cabinet boxes and dovetail drawer boxes.
 
Lewis Cabinet's world-class manufacturing and automation capabilities allow them to offer industry-leading five-day lead times while maintaining first-class quality and customer service. In addition, Lewis Cabinet’s online ordering process is completely automated and provides a smooth and intuitive interface for customers to fully customize the materials and construction of their cabinets.
 
The Lewis Family credits the company’s success to their entire team’s willingness to buck traditional industry practices and focus on how technology can revolutionize their industry. By focusing on ease of online ordering, rapid industry-leading turnaround times, premium quality, significant optionality and customization and first-class customer service, the Lewis Family says it has been able to build a formidable enterprise that is disrupting the way cabinets are designed, ordered and manufactured.
 
 “It was important for my family to find a partner who would support the growth of our business, build on the Company’s legacy, and take care of our employees, which is why we chose to partner with LongWater," says Lewis Cabinet’s President and Co-Owner, Bobby Lewis (left). "Their experience growing American manufacturing businesses is a great match for the needs of our company. We’re very excited about the future of Lewis Cabinet.”
 
Lewis Cabinet is the sixth investment in LongWater’s second equity fund.
 
“The team at Lewis Cabinet has built an impressive business through their focus on quality and customer service and their investments in technology," says Jordan Bastable, a partner at LongWater. "We are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with the Lewis family and help them continue to grow their great organization.”
 
LongWater Opportunities, headquartered in Dallas, and with an office in Fargo, North Dakota, is an operationally-focused private equity firm that targets control buyout equity investments in lower middle market U.S.-based manufacturing companies in partnership with family owner-operators and entrepreneurs.
 
LongWater was founded in 2009 with a vision to create a different kind of private equity firm – one that centers on mutually aligned interests and investing patient capital to build successful American manufacturing businesses. LongWater recognizes that long-term value is created through taking a hands-on approach with its portfolio companies to identify and execute strategic and operational initiatives that create sustainable competitive advantages.
 
For more information, please visit www.longwateropportunities.com.

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