Article: Behrman Capital Acquires Peacock Engineering for $172.5 Million.

NEW YORK -- Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, today announced that it has acquired Peacock Engineering Company, in partnership with existing management, for $172.5 million. Peacock Engineering, headquartered in Geneva, Illinois, is a leading provider of outsourced food packaging services to many of the nation's major consumer products companies. Behrman acquired Peacock from an investor group which includes Chairman and majority shareholder Jerry Hayden and the Company's management team. Led by President Michael A. Bilder, management is reinvesting in the Company alongside Behrman through this transaction.

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