PrimeSource Brands, a North American provider of specialty branded building products backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (“Clearlake”), announced today that it has acquired Durst Corporation, Inc. d/b/a JACLO Industries (“JACLO”, or the “Company”), a distributor of decorative bath fixtures and functional plumbing products. The transaction represents PrimeSource Brands’ twelfth acquisition since partnering with Clearlake in December 2020. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Based in Cranford, New Jersey, JACLO operates two complementary brands: JACLO and Durst. The JACLO brand is a design-forward decorative line spanning shower systems, faucets, decorative specialties, grab bars, decorative drains, and bath accessories, offered across more than 35 coordinated finishes. The Durst brand supplies functional plumbing solutions for the professional trade, including valves and flow control, fittings and connection hardware, drainage systems, and water supply and heating components. Founded in 1901, the Company has built nearly 125 years of operating history serving decorative plumbing showrooms, wholesalers, and home improvement retailers across North America.

“We’re excited to welcome JACLO into the PrimeSource Brands family,” said Tom Koos, CEO of PrimeSource Brands. “JACLO has spent more than a century building a reputation for craftsmanship and responsive product development, and the business fits naturally with Dimora Brands. Combined with our Top Knobs, Hardware Resources, Atlas Homewares, Watermark Designs, and Water Street Brass offerings, JACLO gives us a complete decorative bath and plumbing assortment for the showroom and designer channel.”

“Today marks another successful milestone in our partnership with PrimeSource,” said José E. Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, and Colin Leonard, Partner and Managing Director, at Clearlake. “Our investment in JACLO reflects our continued commitment to strategic, value-creating M&A that enhances PrimeSource’s market position and broadens our addressable market in specialty building products.”

“The acquisition of JACLO extends PrimeSource’s position in decorative bath hardware by adding complementary products and an established brand,” added Ben Kruger, Managing Director at Clearlake. “We remain excited about the Company’s runway as a consolidator in this ecosystem.”

About PrimeSource Brands

PrimeSource Brands is a national provider of specialty branded building products. The Company’s product offering spans more than 100,000 SKUs, including construction fasteners, knobs & pulls, fencing & railing, and functional hardware, among others. PrimeSource Brands operates an expansive footprint, serving over 56,000 customer locations through 64 strategically located sites in 26 states and 2 countries. PrimeSource Brands plays a crucial role for customers who rely on its brand value, breadth of offering, and logistics capabilities.

For more information, please visit www.psbrands.com.

About JACLO

Founded in 1901 and headquartered in Cranford, New Jersey, JACLO is a manufacturer and distributor of decorative bath fixtures and functional plumbing products. Through its JACLO brand, the Company offers decorative specialties, shower systems – including the design-patented Rain Machine – faucets, decorative grab bars and handles, channel and decorative drains, and coordinated bath accessories in more than 35 finishes, with finish-matching capability across product families. Through its Durst brand, the Company supplies in-stock valves, fittings, drainage, and water supply and heating components to wholesalers and the professional plumbing trade. JACLO’s products are engineered to meet ASSE, ASME, CSA, and WaterSense standards and are assembled, inspected, and packaged at the Company’s New Jersey facility.

For more information, please visit https://www.jaclo.com.

About Clearlake

Clearlake Capital is a leading global alternative asset manager founded in 2006 with over $185 billion of assets under management. Clearlake offers a broad range of investment solutions across private equity, credit, infrastructure, secondaries, co-investments, and other related private market strategies. Through Pathway Capital Management, a division of Clearlake, the firm serves institutional and wealth investors seeking diversified access to private markets. Clearlake seeks to partner with experienced management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to businesses across multiple sectors. The firm aims to drive value through its active, hands-on operating approach, O.P.S.® (Operations, People, Strategy), which combines deep operational expertise with strategic and talent-focused initiatives. Headquartered in Santa Monica, Clearlake maintains 14 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

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