Driving into to work this morning, I was listening to CNBC’s Squawk Box which, on this particular morning, featured a well-respected financial advisor providing his long term insights on the economy and equity markets. To summarize, he projects tepid GDP growth for the next several years and by extension, believes this will correlate with modest [...]
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A Glimmer of Sunshine

I have become a bit fatigued with the stream of bad economic news (European debt crisis, fiscal deficits, blah, blah, blah) seemingly taking permanent residence in the Wall Street Journal. Consequently, I am choosing to start this macro-economic perspective with a little bit of sunshine by reminding ourselves the commercial climate isn’t all that bad. [...]
MCM Acquires Zinkan Enterprises Inc.

MCM Announces Acquisition of Zinkan Enterprises CLEVELAND, OHIO – MCM Capital Partners (“MCM”), is pleased to announce its investment to fund the majority recapitalization of Zinkan Enterprises Inc., a manufacturer and value added distributor of specialty chemicals serving mining, industrial and commercial customers. Senior financing was provided by Key Bank. Founded in 1982, Zinkan, headquartered [...]
A Partner In Good Times And In Bad

Recently I attended the wedding of my wife’s nephew, David and his beautiful bride, Kerry. It was great fun watching David, while standing at the alter awaiting his bride, mouth a “wow” to his family upon seeing his stunning bride enter the church and walk down the aisle. Appropriately, the service was uplifting [...]
Customer (Dis)Service

My fellow associates and I began writing a weekly blog over one year ago which we publish regularly each Wednesday. Blog topics fall into one of four categories: Business Best Practices, General Economic Conditions, PE News, and MCM News. Four of us blog (we excused Kevin, our CFO because he actually has real work to [...]





