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Green Pitch Bridges Mountains and Seas, United Hearts Gather the World
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—The 4th “Hello, Shenyang” Football Friendship Match for International Residents Kicks Off
SHENYANG, China, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The 4th “Hello, Shenyang” Football Friendship Match for international residents kicked off September 5 at Shenyang University, bringing together international residents for a day of sport and cultural exchange.
Themed “Green Pitch Bridges Mountains and Seas, United Hearts Gather the World,” the event was hosted by the Shenyang Municipal People’s Government and co-organized by the Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, the Municipal Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Municipal Sports Bureau, and Shenyang University, with China Today Shenyang Salon as the collaborating unit. Consular officials and international residents from business, academia and other sectors attended the opening ceremony, where Vice Mayor Zhao Wei delivered remarks.
Four teams took to the field: an elite squad from BMW, international student teams from Shenyang University and Shenyang Medical College, and the youngest competitors from Shenyang Huimin Senior High School. The matches featured skillful play, fierce competition and strong teamwork, while high-fives and embraces conveyed genuine friendship among players.
The event also showcased traditional Chinese cultural performances – Wing Chun demonstrations and qipao fashion shows – offering guests an immersive experience of Chinese heritage. Fun activities such as the Ultimate Football and Unity Challenge team-building exercises added laughter and strengthened bonds among participants.
Launched in 2023, the annual match serves as a football-based friendship platform for international residents in Shenyang. Over three years, players of diverse nationalities, ages and professions have gathered through their shared passion, experiencing the city’s hospitality and China’s openness through sport. Football bridges language and cultural gaps, bringing friends from around the world together and embodying the spirit of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind.
Shenyang is now advancing toward its goal of becoming an international central city in Northeast Asia, with a focus on building itself as a hub for international exchanges and a benchmark city for sister-city relations. By improving services for international residents, the city ensures that foreign friends can pursue opportunities, build careers, enjoy a high quality of life, and feel a sense of belonging. Looking ahead, Shenyang will continue to create more platforms for cultural and people-to-people exchanges, inviting international friends who choose the city to share in its revitalization and build a brighter future together.
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TopDawg Launches Temu Integration for Retailers, Expanding Multi-Channel Dropshipping Platform
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New Temu integration gives TopDawg retailers another major marketplace for selling products from U.S.-based suppliers while streamlining product syncing, inventory updates, order processing, and fulfillment.
Key Highlights
TopDawg launches a new Temu integration for retailers, expanding its multi-channel dropshipping platform.
Temu joins TopDawg’s supported integrations, including Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and TikTok.
Retailers can connect their Temu seller account to TopDawg and access products from verified U.S.-based suppliers.
The integration helps streamline product syncing, inventory updates, order processing, fulfillment, and shipment tracking.
Retailers gain another opportunity to diversify their sales channels without purchasing or holding inventory.
The launch further strengthens TopDawg’s strategy of providing retailers with a centralized platform for managing multi-channel eCommerce operations.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TopDawg, a leading U.S.-based dropshipping platform, wholesale supplier network, and eCommerce automation solution, today announced that its Temu integration for retailers is now live and available on the TopDawg platform.
The new integration enables eligible retailers with a Temu seller account to connect the marketplace to TopDawg and expand their selling strategy using products supplied and fulfilled by U.S.-based suppliers.
Temu now joins TopDawg’s growing lineup of supported eCommerce platforms and marketplaces, including Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and TikTok. The continued expansion gives retailers more flexibility to build businesses across multiple sales channels while managing product sourcing, inventory, orders, fulfillment, and tracking through a more centralized technology platform.
“Retailers today need more than access to products – they need automation, reliable fulfillment, and the ability to sell wherever their customers are shopping,” said Darren DeFeo, CEO of TopDawg. “Adding Temu is another important step in our strategy to give retailers access to the sales channels where they want to build and grow their businesses. Retailers should not have to build separate supplier relationships and fulfillment processes every time they expand to another marketplace. Our goal is to make multi-channel selling more accessible by connecting retailers with U.S.-based suppliers and giving them the technology to manage those relationships more efficiently.”
Expanding Marketplace Opportunities for Online Retailers
Modern eCommerce businesses increasingly rely on multiple sales channels rather than a single storefront or marketplace.
A retailer may operate a branded Shopify, WooCommerce, or BigCommerce store while also selling through marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, eBay, TikTok, or Temu. Each additional channel can create new opportunities to reach customers, diversify revenue, test products, and reduce dependence on any single marketplace.
At the same time, managing multiple channels can introduce operational challenges. Retailers must maintain accurate product information, monitor inventory, route orders, track fulfillment, and keep listings synchronized across different systems.
TopDawg’s multi-channel platform is designed to reduce that complexity by connecting retailers with U.S.-based dropshipping suppliers and helping automate the operational workflows required to sell across supported channels.
With the new Temu integration, retailers can incorporate Temu into their broader TopDawg selling strategy while continuing to access products from TopDawg’s network of U.S.-based suppliers.
The result is another way for retailers to expand marketplace reach without purchasing inventory in advance, operating a warehouse, or building individual technical integrations with multiple suppliers.
Why Temu Matters for TopDawg Retailers
Temu has emerged as an important online marketplace where consumers can discover products across a broad range of categories.
For TopDawg retailers, the new integration creates an additional opportunity to participate in that marketplace while using the same U.S.-based supplier infrastructure available through the TopDawg platform.
Rather than establishing separate sourcing arrangements for a new marketplace, eligible retailers can use TopDawg to identify products, prepare listings for their connected sales channel, maintain inventory visibility, and support order fulfillment through participating suppliers.
This gives retailers greater flexibility when deciding how and where to sell.
“Every marketplace has its own audience and its own opportunities,” DeFeo said. “By adding Temu to TopDawg, we’re giving retailers another option for reaching consumers while keeping the sourcing and fulfillment side of their business connected to our U.S.-based supplier network.”
Retailers who do not yet have a Temu seller account must meet Temu’s eligibility and approval requirements before selling on the marketplace.
U.S.-Based Suppliers and Domestic Fulfillment
A central part of the TopDawg platform is its network of verified U.S.-based suppliers that fulfill orders directly from U.S. warehouses and distribution facilities.
This domestic supplier model helps retailers address many of the challenges commonly associated with international dropshipping, including extended shipping times, customs delays, inconsistent inventory availability, and complicated overseas fulfillment.
TopDawg retailers can access hundreds of thousands of wholesale products across a wide variety of retail categories while allowing participating suppliers to ship orders directly to customers.
Depending on the connected sales channel and account configuration, TopDawg helps retailers streamline:
Product importing and syncingProduct data managementInventory updatesOrder routing and processingSupplier fulfillment workflowsShipment tracking updatesMulti-channel product and order management
The addition of Temu gives retailers another marketplace where these capabilities can support their broader eCommerce strategy.
More Sales Channels Without More Inventory
One of the fundamental advantages of dropshipping is the ability to expand a product offering without purchasing inventory before a customer places an order.
TopDawg extends that model across multiple sales channels.
Retailers can identify products available through TopDawg’s supplier network, add selected products to supported stores and marketplaces, and rely on the supplier to fulfill orders directly to the end customer.
This approach allows retailers to experiment with new products and sales channels while limiting the capital and operational infrastructure traditionally required to expand an eCommerce business.
The Temu integration further extends that opportunity by adding another marketplace to TopDawg’s growing ecosystem.
For retailers already using TopDawg with another integration, Temu can become part of a broader multi-channel strategy. For retailers entering the TopDawg platform through Temu, the integration also provides a pathway to explore additional marketplaces and eCommerce platforms as their businesses grow.
Helping Retailers Reduce Manual eCommerce Workflows
TopDawg’s broader technology strategy focuses on helping retailers move away from manual dropshipping processes.
Traditional dropshipping workflows can require retailers to download supplier spreadsheets, manually create listings, repeatedly check inventory, forward individual orders to suppliers, collect tracking information, and update marketplaces independently.
As the number of products and sales channels grows, those manual processes become increasingly difficult to manage.
TopDawg’s integrations are designed to automate and centralize many of these functions.
Through supported integrations, retailers can manage product sourcing, inventory visibility, order workflows, and fulfillment activity without having to create a separate operational system for every supplier and marketplace relationship.
“Adding sales channels should create growth opportunities, not another layer of administrative work,” DeFeo said. “The technology behind TopDawg is designed to make it easier for retailers to expand while keeping the operational side of dropshipping manageable.”
Helping U.S. Suppliers Reach More Online Sellers
The expansion also creates additional distribution opportunities for suppliers participating in the TopDawg network.
Suppliers traditionally face many of the same multi-channel challenges as retailers. Reaching sellers across multiple marketplaces may require separate technical integrations, product feeds, retailer relationships, inventory systems, and order-management processes.
TopDawg provides suppliers with a centralized multi-channel distribution platform through which their products can become available to retailers operating across a growing range of supported channels.
As TopDawg adds integrations such as Temu, participating suppliers gain the potential to reach more retailers and extend product distribution without having to establish individual relationships and technology connections with every seller.
This creates a more scalable connection between U.S.-based product suppliers and the retailers selling those products online.
Building a More Complete Multi-Channel Dropshipping Platform
The launch of the Temu integration reflects TopDawg’s continued investment in building a more connected multi-channel eCommerce ecosystem.
Online commerce is increasingly distributed across traditional marketplaces, independent eCommerce stores, social commerce platforms, and emerging selling channels. Retailers that want to grow increasingly need the ability to participate across several of these environments while maintaining centralized control over sourcing and fulfillment.
TopDawg’s expanding integration lineup is designed around that shift.
With support for Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, TikTok, and now Temu, TopDawg gives retailers multiple options for building an eCommerce business around the channels that best match their products, customers, and growth strategies.
“We believe successful eCommerce businesses will increasingly be multi-channel,” DeFeo added. “Temu strengthens the TopDawg ecosystem and gives our retailers another opportunity to expand while continuing to benefit from U.S.-based suppliers, domestic fulfillment, and automation. We intend to keep expanding the platform as new opportunities emerge for our retailers and suppliers.”
Retailers interested in connecting Temu or another supported sales channel can review TopDawg membership options or create a TopDawg retailer account to get started.
About TopDawg
TopDawg is a U.S.-based wholesale dropshipping and eCommerce automation platform founded in 2004. The company connects online retailers with verified U.S.-based suppliers and helps automate product sourcing, inventory syncing, order routing, fulfillment, and shipment tracking across supported eCommerce platforms and marketplaces.
TopDawg supports retailers selling through leading channels including Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, TikTok, and Temu. The platform helps retailers scale without purchasing or holding inventory while giving suppliers expanded access to online sellers across multiple sales channels.
For more information, visit www.TopDawg.com.
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Hypersonic Technology Market Projected to Reach $15.73 Billion by 2030, and Flight Test Time Has Become the Bottleneck
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — American News Group News Commentary – The hardest part of building a hypersonic vehicle is not designing it. It is finding somewhere to fly it. Research and Markets values the global hypersonic technology market at approximately US$8.49 billion in 2025, rising to roughly US$15.73 billion by 2030 at a compound annual growth rate of about 13.2%. Allied Market Research, sizing the same category differently, projects it reaching approximately US$12.18 billion by 2030 and singles out air launch as one of the faster-growing modes within it, at a compound annual growth rate of around 11.3%. Both descriptions point at the same constraint. Demand for hypersonic hardware has outrun the capacity to test it.
Active Companies from around the markets with current developments this week include: Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE American: FJET), Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: LHX), and Karman Holdings Inc. (NYSE: KRMN).
The scale of the response is visible in how the United States now buys test capacity. The Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed program, known as MACH-TB, exists specifically to expand the number and frequency of hypersonic flight test opportunities. Its second iteration, MACH-TB 2.0, is a US$1.45 billion effort. That is a substantial sum committed not to building weapons but to creating chances to fly the components that go into them.
Underneath that spending sits a physical problem. Sustained flight above Mach 5 subjects materials, sensors, seals and control surfaces to heat and pressure that ground facilities approximate rather than reproduce. Conventional wind tunnels deliver those conditions for seconds. Rocket-launched test flights deliver them properly but consume a vehicle each time and are scheduled in months. Between those two options is a gap: sustained supersonic exposure, repeatable, on a platform that lands and flies again.
Propulsion is the second constraint, and it is a different kind of problem. The solid rocket motors that power most tactical and hypersonic systems are energy-dense and reliable, and once ignited they burn until the propellant is gone. They cannot be throttled or restarted, and they are classed as explosive for handling and storage. Those characteristics are tolerable on a vertically launched vehicle. They are considerably less comfortable on hardware carried under the wing of a crewed aircraft, where handling, abort options and in-flight control all matter more.
Which is why the more interesting activity in this sector is happening at the intersection of the two: platforms that can deliver flight conditions repeatedly, and propulsion that is safe enough and controllable enough to be carried by them.
Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE American: FJET) Enters MOU With Vaya Defense & Space to Explore Air-Launch Propulsion and Captive-Carry Testing
Memorandum of understanding entered into with Vaya Defense & Space, Inc., a privately held developer of the patented Vortex-Hybrid rocket engine.Two collaboration tracks: flying Vaya hypersonic test articles on the Wind Tunnel in the Sky service, and assessing Vaya propulsion for the STARLAUNCH air-launch system.The joint technical assessment is expected to cover propulsion performance and packaging, vehicle and payload integration, and methodologies for operating from the F-104’s underwing stations.Both companies are located on Florida’s Space Coast with facilities only miles apart; under the MOU Starfighters is to have access to Vaya’s propulsion lab and precision machining facility.The MOU is an agreement to explore collaboration. It is not a definitive agreement, and no revenue is attached to it.
Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE American: FJET), which operates the world’s only commercial fleet of flight-ready Mach 2+ supersonic aircraft, announced on September 9, 2026 that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Vaya Defense & Space, Inc. to explore collaboration on supersonic captive-carry flight testing and air-launch propulsion. Further detail is available at starfightersspace.com.
The two tracks address the two constraints described above, which is what makes the pairing worth reading closely rather than filing as another announcement. Under the first, the companies plan to evaluate flying Vaya hypersonic test articles and other payloads on Starfighters’ Wind Tunnel in the Sky service, which uses F-104 aircraft to expose hardware to sustained Mach 2+ flight conditions for technology validation and maturation. The distinction from a ground facility is duration: sustained exposure rather than a pulse, on an aircraft that returns and can fly the article again.
Under the second, the parties plan to assess whether Vaya’s hybrid propulsion is suitable for STARLAUNCH, the Company’s air-launch system, beginning with suborbital missions. Vaya’s Vortex-Hybrid engine pairs a 3D-printed, non-explosive thermoplastic fuel grain with a liquid oxidizer, which the company states delivers full-authority throttling and in-flight restart, capabilities not available from conventional solid rocket motors.
“Vaya has spent years maturing a propulsion technology that is throttleable, restartable, and non-explosive, which is close to an ideal profile for a vehicle carried under the wing of an aircraft,” said Tim Franta, Chief Executive Officer of Starfighters Space. “Their shop is also a short drive from our hangar at Kennedy Space Center. That combination of technical fit and proximity allows us to develop and test hardware faster than either of us could alone.”
“Air launch puts a premium on propulsion that is compact, safe to handle, and controllable in flight, all reasons we designed our technology the way we did,” said Dr. Wes Naylor, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vaya. “Starfighters offers a flight environment that is difficult to replicate on the ground and a near-term path to demonstrating our technology in the air.”
The geography is not incidental. Both companies sit on Florida’s Space Coast with facilities only miles apart, and under the MOU Starfighters is to have access to Vaya’s propulsion lab and precision machining facility for engineering collaboration, prototyping, engine testing and flight hardware development. Iteration speed on hardware is largely a function of how long it takes to get a modified part back onto a test stand, and a short drive is a meaningful advantage over a shipping manifest.
Starfighters operates a fleet of F-104 aircraft based at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Midland International Air and Space Port in Texas. The Company describes the aircraft as configurable as a platform for air-launched payloads, pilot training, and to support research, development, test and evaluation for hypersonic technologies, advanced materials, missile defense systems, microgravity science, spaceflight hardware validation and defense electronic systems.
There’s many exiting developments in the hypersonic test and propulsion chain, the same two constraints are visible at every level:
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has built the largest commercial business in hypersonic flight testing, and its scale is the clearest measure of how much the government is willing to spend to buy test opportunities. Its HASTE vehicle is a suborbital variant of the Electron rocket with a modified upper kick stage tailored for hypersonic technology tests and a payload capacity of up to approximately 700 kilograms.
On March 18, 2026 the company announced a US$190 million contract for a block buy of 20 hypersonic test flights with HASTE for the Test Resource Management Center’s MACH-TB 2.0 program, to be performed over a four-year period under Task Area 1. It described the award as the single largest launch agreement in its history at the time. Company disclosure is available through its investor relations newsroom.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer Sir Peter Beck framed the expanded partnership as delivering hypersonic capability with speed and affordability. The company has subsequently been reported to have received a further United States Space Force award for up to 18 suborbital missile defense launches, surpassing the March contract in size.
The comparison worth drawing is one of method rather than scale. A HASTE flight delivers hypersonic conditions and consumes a vehicle to do it. A captive-carry platform delivers sustained supersonic conditions and lands. Those are different products serving different points in a development programme, and a test campaign that can use the cheaper one first generally does.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) occupies the position that determines who gets to fly at all. It leads Task Area 1 of MACH-TB 2.0, the US$1.45 billion program designed to expand the number and frequency of hypersonic test opportunities for the United States, and it selects and manages the subcontractors that perform the flights.
That role makes it the clearest illustration of how this market actually works. Test capacity is procured centrally, through a program office and a prime integrator, rather than bought piecemeal on the open market. For any company offering a test platform, the commercially significant question is not only whether the platform works but whether it is inside a program of record. Kratos also develops affordable target and unmanned systems of its own, so it is a customer, a competitor and a gatekeeper depending on which part of the business is in view.
The structure cuts both ways for a smaller platform operator. Programs of this kind consolidate demand, which makes it harder to sell around them. They also create a defined route in, which is more than existed before MACH-TB was established.
L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: LHX) is the incumbent whose product defines the baseline that hybrid propulsion is measured against. Through its acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne, completed in 2023, it is one of the largest producers of solid rocket motors in the United States, and it has been spending heavily to produce more of them.
In April 2026 the company announced a US$1.3 billion expansion of solid rocket motor manufacturing capacity in Orange County, Virginia, establishing an advanced propulsion campus supporting mixing, grinding, casting and final assembly. That followed a prior investment in its Camden, Arkansas campus, where it broke ground in November 2025, and a separate expansion of its Huntsville, Alabama component manufacturing footprint announced in June 2026. Corporate disclosure is available through the company’s newsroom.
Solid rocket motor supply has been a recognised chokepoint in United States missile production, and that is precisely why the incumbent technology is being scaled rather than replaced. Hybrid propulsion of the kind Vaya is developing is not positioned to displace solid motors in mass-produced munitions. It is positioned for the applications where throttling, restart and non-explosive handling matter more than raw energy density, which is a narrower opportunity but a real one, and air launch sits squarely inside it.
Karman Holdings Inc. (NYSE: KRMN) shows what the buildout looks like one level down the supply chain. The company designs, tests and manufactures mission-critical systems for missile, defense and space programs, organised into three families: payload protection and deployment systems, aerodynamic interstage systems, and propulsion systems.
Its stated end markets are hypersonics and strategic missile defense, tactical missile and integrated defense systems, and space and launch. In its offering disclosure the company described revenue drawn from over 100 active programs, with no single program accounting for more than 10% of sales, which is an unusual profile in a sector where suppliers are often tied to one platform. It listed on the New York Stock Exchange in February 2025 and has since announced expansions of production capacity to support Pentagon missile programs.
For the purposes of this article the relevance is directional rather than comparative. A components supplier serving more than a hundred hypersonic, missile and space programs is a reasonable proxy for whether the activity described in the market forecasts is translating into hardware. It appears to be. Whether any individual test platform or propulsion developer captures a share of that activity is an entirely separate question, and Karman’s results say nothing about it.
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[1] Starfighters Space, Inc. news release dated September 9, 2026, and the Company’s other disclosures and filings, available on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
[2] Research and Markets hypersonic technology market report; Allied Market Research hypersonic technology market report.
[3] Public disclosures, filings, offering documents and announcements of the referenced companies (Rocket Lab Corporation, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., L3Harris Technologies, Inc. and Karman Holdings Inc.) as cited in the body of this article.
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H.I.G. Capital Makes a Significant Investment in Click Here Digital
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BOSTON, Sept. 9, 2026 /CNW/ — H.I.G. Capital (“H.I.G.”), a leading global alternative investment firm with $75 billion of capital under management, is pleased to announce that one of its affiliates has completed a significant investment in Click Here Digital (“Click Here” or the “Company”), a technology-enabled digital marketing agency serving customers in the automotive, legal, and government end markets.
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Click Here delivers integrated performance marketing solutions including digital marketing, search engine and artificial intelligence optimization, paid social, programmatic, CTV, creative services, and campaign measurement. Its high-touch, consultative service model is powered by ClickIQ, the Company’s proprietary operating platform, which unifies onboarding, budgeting, campaign management, attribution, and performance reporting. The Company’s combination of industry expertise, responsive service, and technology-enabled delivery has driven long-standing customer relationships and consistent growth.
Bo White, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Click Here, said, “For more than three decades, Click Here has helped clients navigate a digital marketing landscape that continues to become more complex. Our people, service model, and ClickIQ platform allow us to work closely with customers, connect marketing activity to business outcomes, and continuously improve performance. H.I.G. shares our commitment to customer service and innovation, and its resources and experience will help us invest in our team and capabilities, deepen our customer relationships, and pursue the next phase of growth.”
Andrey Vakhovskiy, Managing Director at H.I.G., added: “Click Here has built a differentiated platform at the intersection of digital marketing, industry expertise, and technology-enabled service. We are excited to partner with the Click Here team to expand Click Here’s capabilities, invest in technology, and continue its history of exceptional customer service.”
Canaccord Genuity acted as exclusive financial advisor to Click Here. Stephens Inc. and TD Securities acted as financial advisors to H.I.G.
About Click Here
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Click Here delivers integrated performance marketing solutions including digital marketing, search engine and artificial intelligence optimization, paid social, programmatic, CTV, creative services, and campaign measurement. Its high-touch, consultative service model is powered by ClickIQ, the Company’s proprietary operating platform, which unifies onboarding, budgeting, campaign management, attribution, and performance reporting. The Company’s combination of industry expertise, responsive service, and technology-enabled delivery has driven long-standing customer relationships and consistent growth. For more information, please refer to the Click Here website at clickheredigital.com.
About H.I.G. Capital
H.I.G. Capital is a leading global alternative investment firm with $75 billion of capital under management.* Based in Miami, and with offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Stamford in the United States, as well as international affiliate offices in Hamburg, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro, Dubai, and Hong Kong, H.I.G. specializes in providing both debt and equity capital to middle market companies, utilizing a flexible and operationally focused/value-added approach:
H.I.G.’s equity funds invest in management buyouts, recapitalizations, and corporate carve-outs of both profitable as well as underperforming manufacturing and service businesses.H.I.G.’s debt funds invest in senior, unitranche, and junior debt financing to companies across the size spectrum, both on a primary (direct origination) basis, as well as in the secondary markets.H.I.G.’s real estate funds invest in value-added properties, which can benefit from improved asset management practices.H.I.G. Infrastructure focuses on making value-add and core plus investments in the infrastructure sector.
Since its founding in 1993, H.I.G. has invested in and managed more than 400 companies worldwide. The Firm’s current portfolio includes more than 100 companies with combined sales in excess of $53 billion. For more information, please refer to the H.I.G. website at hig.com.
*Based on total capital raised by H.I.G. Capital and its affiliates.
Contact:
Andrey Vakhovskiy
Managing Director
avakhovskiy@hig.com
H.I.G. Capital
800 Boylston St
Suite 910
Boston, MA 02199
P: 617.262.8455
hig.com
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