George K. Baum Advisors' investment banking professionals have assisted many industrial products and manufacturing companies, including those involved in building products, specialty vehicles, construction, containers, packaging materials, aerospace and aircraft equipment, and various types of capital equipment.

• We advised Collins Industries, Inc. is a world-class manufacturer of specialty vehicles for attractive niche markets, in its sale to Steel Partners II, L.P., a private investment partnership based in New York.

• We advised Butler Manufacturing Company, the world's leading producer of pre-engineered building systems and a supplier of specialty components and construction services for the nonresidential market, in a number of transactions, including its sale to Bluescope Steel Limited (ASX:BSL) and the previous divestiture of its Grain Systems Division to CTB, Inc., currently a portfolio company of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRKa, BRKb).

• We advised on the sale of Marlen Research Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative food processing machines, including pumping, portioning, forming and extruding equipment, to The Dominion Company, LLC, a holding company of food processing businesses.

• We advised McCarthy Holdings, Inc., the oldest privately-owned construction firm in America, in structuring a recapitalization whereby the firm, which serves a wide variety of public and private clientele and has over $1 billion in annual revenues, remained 100% employee owned.

• We served as a co-advisor to Sealright Company (NASDAQ: SRCO), North America's leading producer of premium packaging for frozen desserts, in its merger with Huhtamaki Oy, a Finland-based confectionery and food packaging company.

For additional information regarding our expertise within the Industrial Products and Manufacturing sector, please contact Chris Hanson.