Prospect Partners | Portfolio: Prior Investments - Tender Products, Inc.
Tender is a leading recreational outdoor products platform that develops, manufactures, and markets essential personal care, survival, and first aid products under a portfolio of niche, enthusiast brands through various retail channels, including food, drug and mass merchandisers, outdoor and sporting goods stores, and promotional product distributors.
Prospect teamed with management to recapitalize Tender Corporation in September, 2008.
Tender's various product lines consist of bite treatments, insect repellents, sunburn and windburn products, first-aid kits, special-purpose creams and lotions, activity-specific medical kits, survival gear and other related products.
Tender's products include such well-known brands as AfterBite®, Natrapel®, Ben's®, AfterSting®, EasyCare® and Adventure® Medical Kits.
Genuine First Aid, LLC, of Clearwater, Fla. (March, 2011), a marketer and distributor of first aid kits, training supplies and related components into the industrial market and to chapters of the American Red Cross.
Comfort Gear, Inc., of Keene, N.H. (November, 2011), a maker of custom safety and first-aid medical kits primarily for the promotional market.
Prospect Partners sold Tender to management and a financial buyer in January, 2019.