North Castle Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, growth capital infusions, and strategic acquisitions. It prefers to invest in middle market consumer businesses dedicated to healthy living and aging. The firm focuses on aesthetics and personal care; consumer health; fitness and weight management; home and leisure; and nutrition businesses. Within the aesthetics and personal care sector, the firm invests in natural personal care, spas, anti-aging cosmeceuticals and treatments, skin care, and cosmetics. Within the consumer health sector, it invests in companies engaged in home healthcare services, behavioral health, complementary and alternative, disease management, rehabilitation, and aids to daily living. Within fitness and recreation, the firm invests in health clubs, weight management products and services, fitness equipment, and sporting goods and equipment. Within home and leisure, it focuses on hobbies and crafts, specialty education, leisure travel, pet care, and natural cleaning products. Within nutrition, the firm invests in healthy foods and beverages, functional foods, nutraceuticals, vitamins, minerals and supplements, and performance nutrition products. It typically makes control private equity investments in consumer-driven product and service companies located in North America, with enterprise values ranging between $50 million and $500 million. North Castle Partners, LLC was co-founded in 1997 by Mr. Charles F. Baird, Jr. and Mr. Chip L. Baird. It is based in Greenwich, Connecticut with an additional office in San Francisco, California.