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Rheingold Beer
Rheingold Brewing Company - www.rheingoldbeer.com : We provided complete organization and management advisory services to New York's oldest beer brand. Our assignment involved architecting a re-organization; funding assistance through locating investors and Board members; hiring management (CEO and CFO) and recruitment of other key positions (Director of Sales, Director of Marketing). During this 2 year process, we provided interim management services (including CFO and VP of Marketing) while at the same time re-launching this powerful brand which at one time was New York's best selling beer.


Lavoris
Charles Flora Consumer Products, LLC - www.charlesflora.com : We are providing strategic advisory and funding support for this up and coming brand enhancement organization. Lavoris was once a major player in the national market for mouthwash and is now being resurrected through licensing and other brand enhancement strategies. Charles Flora owns or licenses and markets other brands primarily in the health and beauty and personal care space.


Colorado Prime Foods
Colorado Prime Foods, Inc. - www.coloradoprimefoods.com : We provided extensive turnaround and balance sheet re-organization and re-engineering services to this large, Long Island based distributor and marketer of food and related appliances. Our work involved the sale and liquidation of the Company's finance unit, involving more than $70 million in assets, and the arranging of a new credit facility to be used as a primary selling tool to the Company's customers going forward.


Ocean Garden Products
Ocean Garden Products, Inc. - www.oceangarden.com : We provided turnaround and strategy services to the new Management of one of the largest seafood companies in the world. Our strategy was accepted by the Board of Directors and is currently being deployed as a game plan for the Company's new five-year plan.


CremaLita
Cremalita Management, Inc. - www.cremalita.com : We are advising this leading NYC based diet desert company with its growth strategy and funding needs.


Famous Manhattan Soup Chef
International Gourmet Foods, Inc. - www.manhattansoupchef.com : We are advising this New York Metro Area based maker of all natural gourmet soups with its growth strategy and funding needs.


NuVim
Spencer Trask Specialty Group - www.nuvim.com : We provided a comprehensive anaylsis of opportunities facing NuVim for its owners, Venture Capital firm, Spencer Trask. Our assignment encompassed a thorough situation analysis, identification and quantification of challenges, formulation of alternatives versus the current strategy and a go-forward plan for implementation.


Rain Valet
Rain Valet, Inc. - We are providing organizational, interim management and funding support to this New York City based hospitality firm. Our assignment, at its core, involves basic start-up activities, but also the development of strategy for commercializing a new piece of technology, which has already received a patent, and launching it within the hospitality industry.


Schaefer Beer
One of our partners served as the Citibank officer in charge of the lending group in the multi-year workout of this consumer brand.


Color Spot Nursuries
One of our partners worked on this private equity investment in his role as a partner at Kohlberg & Company. Color Spot Nursuries is the largest grower and supplier of garden plants in the world. With nurseries in California, Texas and North Carolina and Christmas tree growers in four other states, Color Spot marketed through large merchandisers such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot and K-Mart throughout the West and South-west.


Corcoran.com
Corcoran Group - www.corcoran.com : One of our partners led the online launch of New York's largest residential real estate brokerage firm, managing its growth and funding process and, ultimately, its re-integration with the parent in 2001. Other partners of Palisades led the technology and development effort to launch Corcoran.com in conjunction with Corcoran.com management.


Christian Delouvrier
We provided strategy and advisory services for this world famous Chef who is one of only a few in New York to have won a 5-star rating as Executive Chef at Lespinasse, which closed in early 2003.


AT&T
A partner served as the National Marketing Manager responsible for the introduction and roll-out of the first personal 800 service for the home. This product became the fastest growing 800 service in the history of AT&T.


Com Systems (currently, part of MCI)
One of our partners ran the division of this public company responsible for the national launch of voice processing services. It was one of the first services designed to commercialize the use of voice mail technology for consumers.


Tribal Brands
www.tribalbrands.com : Palisades is providing a wide array of advisory services for this Silicon Valley based mobile technology solutions provider. The current assignment includes the strategy and business development support for entering and expanding into Korea and the rest of Asia.



 
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