In 10 years and 20+ control acquisitions, we have operated CPG businesses from under $5M to over $300M in annual revenue. We have built brands from the factory floor, restructured P&Ls from the operating chair, and created exits that institutional capital couldn't engineer. No fund cycle. No LP pressure. One principal. Full accountability.
Van Dyke Acquisitions was not built to deploy capital and observe. It was built by operators — people who have run factories, restructured supply chains, rebuilt distribution networks, and navigated the complexity of consumer brands in distress and in growth. That is our edge. It compounds with every acquisition we make.
We were founded in 2014 — originally as Golden Tiger Holdings — with a core beverage manufacturing business that at peak produced 8,000 cans per minute. The experience of building, scaling, and ultimately exiting that business gave us something no investment committee can manufacture: the credibility of having operated at scale in consumer goods before deploying a dollar of acquisition capital.
Today, we bring that operating DNA to every situation we enter — whether a brand facing creditor pressure and needing immediate operational stabilization, or a founder-led business that has outgrown its current ownership structure and needs a partner who will act with speed and conviction.
We have expanded beyond our original distressed mandate — not because we have softened our standards, but because the operating intensity we apply to turnarounds creates a genuine competitive advantage in healthy growth situations as well. Our diligence is the same. Our involvement is the same. Our accountability is the same.
Our founding mandate. We are among the few buyers in the consumer space with the operational infrastructure to pursue genuinely distressed CPG situations — not just financially stressed, but operationally broken. We move where institutional capital cannot, and we stabilize what others decline.
Our expanded mandate. Healthy CPG brands with real consumer pull but misaligned ownership, capital constraints, or growth plateaus are now equally compelling. We apply turnaround-caliber diligence and operational depth to acceleration — not just recovery. The result: a faster path to the brand's potential than any financial buyer can offer.
Not every situation calls for a change of ownership. Through our partner platforms — Cohort Capital for growth financing and Lead Shield Funding for operational capital — we connect CPG operators with the right capital for their stage.