North Star Seafood is recapitalized by Trivest Partners

North Star Seafood is a rapidly growing, value added specialty food distribution company that is a leading provider of fresh and frozen seafood throughout South East United States and the Caribbean.

The company has enjoyed twenty years of continuous growth and profitability and is well known for its consistent ability to provide high quality products and service to better hotels, restaurants, country clubs and cruise lines.

Carriage Hill assisted the founder in transitioning the company to one of his three sons, while providing liquidity for his estate and growth capital for acquisitions. The company acquired two businesses and grew 50% within twelve months of the transaction’s closing date.

Trivest Partners is a private equity firm focused on partnering with founder and family owned businesses in the United States and Canada. Since its inception in 1981, the firm has completed 185 transactions creating over $4.5 billion in value.

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