Welcome to J.W. Childs Associates

Boston-based J.W. Childs Associates is an established private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations of middle-market growth companies. With a focus on consumer products and specialty retail businesses, we make control investments in growth companies or companies that have the potential for growth with the help of our operating and managerial partners. Our investment and operating professionals have decades of private equity and executive management experience, and we employ a consistent, disciplined investment strategy that has produced strong returns throughout our history and across numerous economic and credit cycles. Since our founding in 1995, we have invested approximately $3 billion of equity capital in more than 40 businesses with an aggregate enterprise value at the time of investment of over $12 billion.