Things Remembered
Madison Dearborn Partners bought the personalized-gifts retailer for $295 million in 2012; a lender group including KKR took ownership via a 2016 debt-for-equity swap. Things Remembered filed Chapter 11 in February 2019 and was sold to an Enesco/Balmoral Funds unit that kept it operating.
- FOUNDED
- 1967
- ACQUIRED
- KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts), 2012, $295 million
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1967
Things Remembered founded
2012
Acquired by KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) for $295 million
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