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The leading worldwide supplier of aircraft sanitation systems, trash compactors and related products, and a successor to the former public company, Monogram Industries. CHPII acquired MAG in November 1993, with management investing as part of the acquisition. Based in Los Angeles, MAG supplies most major aircraft manufacturers and almost every domestic and international airline. MAG was sold in February 1998 to Zodiac S.A., a French aeronautical and marine equipment company in a transaction that was valued at $180 million. The sale provided CHPII investors a compound annual return of more than 52 percent, or approximately six times average invested equity.
February 02, 1998
Castle Harlan Completes Sale Of MAG Aerospace, Leader in Aircraft Toilets And Trash Compactors
NEW YORK, February 2, 1998 - Castle Harlan, Inc., the New York merchant bank, announced today it had completed the sale of MAG Aerospace Industries, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of aircraft toilets and trash compactors, to Zodiac S.A., a…
December 21, 1997
Castle Harlan To Sell MAG Aerospace, World Leader In Aircraft Toilets, Trash Compactors, For $180 Million
NEW YORK, December 21, 1997 - Castle Harlan, Inc., the New York merchant bank, announced today that an investment partnership it manages had signed a definitive agreement to sell MAG Aerospace Industries, Inc., the worldwide leader in aircraft sanitation systems…
November 07, 1996
Company Owned By Castle Harlan Agrees To Make Acquisition
NEW YORK, November 7 -- Castle Harlan, Inc., the New York merchant bank, announced today that its portfolio company, MAG Aerospace Industries, Inc., had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aero-design Technology, Inc., in a transaction valued at approximately $12…
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