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Is Sound United Sound? Top Credit Rating Agency Says It’s ‘Speculative’

April 30, 2021 by Ted 2 Comments

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Moody’s Investors Service, one of the top credit rating agencies in the world, said this month that DEI Sales, Inc., dba Sound United, has been assigned a credit rating of B2 and a probability of default rating of B2-PD. In addition to this, they are assigning another B2 rating to Sound United’s proposed $380 million senior secured first lien term loan due in 2028. The forward looking “outlook” for Sound United and this rating is “stable.”

What does a B2 rating of Sound United mean?

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Filed Under: Brands, Financial, Management, Manufacturers, News, Strategy Tagged With: Boston Acoustics, Bowers & Wilkins, Charlesbank Capital Partners, Classe, Definitive Technology, DEI Sales, Denon, FS KKR, HEOS, Marantz, Moody's Investors Services, Polk Audio, Sound United

Surprise! Sound United Makes Bid to Acquire Classé

December 14, 2017 by Ted Leave a Comment

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Will High-End Classé Represent Sound United’s Crown Jewel?

Classe logoJust when you thought it was all over, Strata-gee has learned that a new suitor – Vista, CA-based Sound United – has emerged to make a bid to acquire Classé Audio from current owner B&W Group. Classé was shut down by B&W on October 6th, as we reported at the time. However, because the company was still sitting on a relatively significant level of inventory – and was considering producing an additional small run of certain models to balance out their inventory to facilitate liquidation – B&W executives often maintained it was still in business.

When deals with three previously interested parties failed to come to fruition, B&W made the decision to close Classé’s Montreal headquarters, dismiss all Classé staff, and turned over service and support functions to B&W facilities.

See more on this surprising development for Classé… [Read more…] about Surprise! Sound United Makes Bid to Acquire Classé

Filed Under: Brands, Financial, Manufacturers, News, Pivot Point, Specialty, Strategy Tagged With: B&W Group, Bain Capital, Boston Acoustics, Bowers & Wilkins, Charlesbank Capital Partners, Classe, D&M Holdings, D+M Group, Definitive Technology, DEI Holdings, Denon, HEOS, HEOS by Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio, Sound United

D+M Group Sold From One PE Company to Another

March 1, 2017 by Ted 10 Comments

Sound United logosWe learned Wednesday that private equity powerhouse Bain Capital has apparently found a buyer for D+M Group, selling it off to another private equity company – Boston-based Charlesbank Capital Partners. CCP is the owner of DEI Holdings, a division of which is Sound United LLC, parent company of Polk Audio, Definitive Technology, and Polk BOOM. It is Sound United that will now also take over D+M Group and its brands Denon, Marantz, HEOS by Denon and Boston Acoustics.

See more on what we know about this deal for D+M… [Read more…] about D+M Group Sold From One PE Company to Another

Filed Under: Brands, Financial, News, Pivot Point, Strategy Tagged With: acquisition, Bain Capital, Boston Acoustics, Charlesbank Capital Partners, D&M Holdiings, D+M Group, Definitive Technology, Denon, HEOS by Denon, Jim Caudill, Kevin Duffy, Marantz, Polk, Ryan Caroll

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