Times 100 Most Influential People
Congratulations to Patrick Mahomes on being named one of Times 100 Most Influential People for the third time in his career and gracing the cover of the 2024 issue.
Amtech and Label Traxx Combine to Create a Leading Industrial Software Platform to the Packaging Industry
Fort Washington, PA – Amtech, LLC (“Amtech”), a leading industrial software solutions provider to the packaging industry, has completed its acquisition of Label Traxx and its leading software suite for the label printing and flexible packaging segments. The combination further solidifies Amtech’s position as a sought-after industrial software platform to the packaging industry. The combined Company will provide software solutions to more than 750 customers and 1,200 manufacturing sites spanning packaging end markets across the globe, including in North America, Latin America and Europe.
Label Traxx provides a comprehensive software suite with end-to-end capabilities including ERP, MES, MIS, CRM, and other solutions that are complementary to Amtech. The company serves a diverse, global customer base spanning more than 500 manufacturing sites that supply a wide variety of end markets.
“Together, Amtech and Label Traxx form a highly differentiated, premier software platform within the packaging industry,” said Chuck Schneider, CEO of Amtech. “The combined company will offer best-in-class, end-to-end solutions to meet our customers’ packaging and labeling needs across the world, while optimizing their operations at both the enterprise and plant-level.”
“We are thrilled to invest in the combination of the Amtech and Label Traxx,” said Preston Thomas, Managing Director of Peak Rock Capital. “We’re excited about the value the combined platform will provide to all customers and the significant growth momentum of the business going forward.”
Pete Leibman, Managing Director of Peak Rock Capital, added, “Over the last several years, Amtech has experienced transformative growth, spurred by investments in R&D, new product offerings, and strategic acquisitions. The Company is well positioned to continue its growth trajectory through continuing new customer wins and additional acquisitions.”
ABOUT AMTECH
Founded in 1981, Amtech Software is a leading provider of manufacturing ERP and MES software and technology solutions to the packaging industry. Amtech’s fully-integrated, end-to-end product suite provides mission-critical solutions and a compelling value proposition to the full spectrum of manufacturers. Amtech’s software solutions serve over 250 customers at over 700 manufacturing plants in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The Company is headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.
ABOUT LABEL TRAXX
Label Traxx is a business management software provider for the label printing and flexible packaging segments of the packaging industry. With over 30 years of expertise, Label Traxx is recognized as a proven partner in helping customers improve efficiency and accelerate growth. Label Traxx’s MIS and ERP solutions serve as the backbone of data for enterprise and plant-level management, and provides mission-critical functionalities including estimating, order management, inventory management, job costing, reporting, and many others. The Company’s B2B and B2C customer portals and CRM sales portal products provide e-commerce and sales organization management solutions, and its MES products provide production planning, automated scheduling, and performance monitoring capabilities for its customers.
Visit www.labeltraxx.com to learn more.
ABOUT PEAK ROCK CAPITAL
Peak Rock Capital is a leading middle-market private investment firm that makes equity and debt investments in companies in North America and Europe. Peak Rock's equity investment platform focuses on opportunities where it can support senior management to drive rapid growth and performance improvement, with expertise in partnering with families and founders seeking first-time institutional capital and corporate carve-outs. Peak Rock's credit platform invests across capital structures, with a broad mandate to provide flexible, tailored capital solutions to middle-market and growth-oriented businesses. Peak Rock's real estate platform makes equity and debt investments in small to mid-sized real estate assets in attractive, growing geographies. For further information about Peak Rock Capital, please visit www.peakrockcapital.com.
2024 Opening Day
Opening Day is here! Congratulations to all of the Equity Baseball clients kicking off the 2024 season. Whether it's your 1st or 10th it's a special day, and we wish all the guys the best as the season gets started.
Equity Sports Darius Robinson names Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year
Congratulations to Equity Sports Darius Robinson. Former Missouri and soon to be NFL defensive lineman Darius Robinson was named 2024 Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year, by the Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine. The Southfield, Michigan, product has been as charitable off the field as he has been dominant on it. Last Fall, he established the Darius Robinson Helping Hands Foundation, an organization that put on a back-to-school drive and raised funds that went to two Columbia families during the holiday season.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
A huge congratulations to WR Jerry Jeudy and his family on signing a three-year extension with the Cleveland Browns! Jeudy, who was drafted by the Denver Broncos in 2020, was recently traded to the Browns prior to the extension. Click HERE to see the behind-the-scenes content from Jerry's whirlwind week in Cleveland!
Steinberg DeNicola Award Honors Philanthropic Football Stars
Six philanthropic football personalities, including the NFL’s first female coach, received this year’s Steinberg DeNicola Humanitarian Award.
By Marshall Honorof from Worth Magazine
Las Vegas, NV – Power players in the National Football League (NFL) can do great things, both on and off the field. That’s why Leigh Steinberg and Cosmo DeNicola introduced the Steinberg DeNicola Humanitarian Awards in 2015. Each year, the two sports agents highlight a handful of NFL personalities- players, coaches, and supporting staff – who have contributed their time, money, and talents to charitable causes. This year’s roster of six winners includes a player from the Super Bowl – winning Kansas City Chiefs and the NFL’s first female coach.
Steinberg shared the list of winners in a LinkedIn post, while DeNicola highlighted them through his philanthropic Cosmo Cares website.
To read more:
https://worth.com/steinberg-denicola-award-honors-philanthropic-football-stars/
Super Bowl Champion and MVP
Congratulations to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs on their Super Bowl LVIII victory! Mahomes was named the Super Bowl MVP for the third time in his career, which makes him the first player in NFL history to have three Super Bowl MVPs in a five-season span.
“BARBIE” COMES TO REDBOX PREMIUM TRANSACTIONAL VIDEO ON DEMAND (TVOD)
The biggest movie of the year is available for rent or purchase on the Redbox app
COS COB, CONN.– Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (NASDAQ: CSSE) today announced “Barbie” – the number one movie of 2023 – is now available on the Redbox streaming app for rental or purchase. Fans can now get their pink on through Premium Video on Demand (PVOD) or Premium Electronic Sell Through (PEST) and always be in Barbie Land.
The Redbox streaming app is available on a wide range of devices, including Roku, Samsung TVs, VIZIO, and many others. The app also gives viewers access to thousands of free movies, TV series, and over 180 Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) channels.
“Barbie is a cultural moment in cinema history that brought millions of fans together and made it the number one movie of 2023 – and the 15th biggest movie of all-time,” said Phil Oppenheim, chief content officer of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment. “This success is due to the high quality of the film, Greta Gerwig’s fantastic writing and directing, and Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling’s performances. Our viewers are in for a treat today.”
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.
From Oscar-nominated writer/director Greta Gerwig (“Little Women,” “Lady Bird”) comes “Barbie,” starring Oscar nominees Margot Robbie (“Bombshell,” “I, Tonya”) and Ryan Gosling (“La La Land,” “Half Nelson”) as Barbie and Ken, alongside America Ferrera (“End of Watch,” the “How to Train Your Dragon” films), Kate McKinnon (“Bombshell,” “Yesterday”), Issa Rae (“The Photograph,” HBO’s “Insecure”), Rhea Perlman (“I’ll See You in My Dreams,” “Matilda”), and Will Ferrell (the “Anchorman” films, “Talladega Nights”). The film also stars Michael Cera (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” “Juno”), Ariana Greenblatt (“Avengers: Infinity War,” “65”), Ana Cruz Kayne (“Little Women”), Emma Mackey (“Emily,” “Sex Education”), Hari Nef (“Assassination Nation,” “Transparent”), Alexandra Shipp (the “X-Men” films), Kingsley Ben-Adir (“One Night in Miami,” “Peaky Blinders”), Simu Liu (“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”), Ncuti Gatwa (“Sex Education”), Scott Evans (“Grace and Frankie”), Jamie Demetriou (“Cruella”), Connor Swindells (“Sex Education,” “Emma.”), Sharon Rooney (“Dumbo,” “Jerk”), Nicola Coughlan (“Bridgerton,” “Derry Girls”), Ritu Arya (“The Umbrella Academy”), Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Dua Lipa and Oscar-winner Helen Mirren (“The Queen”).
Gerwig directed “Barbie” from a screenplay by Gerwig & Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story,” “The Squid and the Whale”), based on Barbie by Mattel. The film’s producers are Oscar nominees David Heyman (“Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” “Marriage Story,” “Gravity”), Margot Robbie (“Birds of Prey,” “Promising Young Woman,” “I, Tonya”), Tom Ackerley (“Promising Young Woman,” “I, Tonya”) and Robbie Brenner (“Dallas Buyers Club”), with Gerwig, Baumbach, Ynon Kreiz, Richard Dickson, Michael Sharp, Josey McNamara, Courtenay Valenti, Toby Emmerich and Cate Adams serving as executive producers.
Gerwig’s creative team behind the camera included Oscar-nominated director of photography Rodrigo Prieto (“The Irishman,” “Silence,” “Brokeback Mountain”), Oscar-nominated production designer Sarah Greenwood (“Beauty and the Beast,” “Anna Karenina”), Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran (“Little Women,” “Anna Karenina”), editor Nick Houy (“Little Women,” “Lady Bird”), visual effects supervisor Glen Pratt (“Paddington 2,” “Beauty and the Beast”) and music supervisor George Drakoulias (“White Noise,” “Marriage Story”), with a score by Oscar winners Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (“A Star Is Born”), who also contributed to numerous songs on the film’s soundtrack. The soundtrack includes an impressive roster of today’s hottest music artists, including Lizzo, Dua Lipa, Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice with Aqua, Charli XCX, KAROL G feat. Aldo Ranks, Tame Impala, Dominic Fike, HAIM, The Kid LAROI, Khalid, PinkPantheress, GAYLE, Ava Max, FIFTY FIFTY and more.
Warner Bros. Pictures Presents a Heyday Films Production, a LuckyChap Entertainment Production, an NB/GG Pictures Production, a Mattel Production, “Barbie.” The film is distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and was released in theaters nationwide on July 21, 2023 and internationally on July 19, 2023.
“Barbie” is rated PG-13 by the MPA for suggestive references and brief language.
About Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) provides premium content to value-conscious consumers. The company is one of the largest advertising-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) companies in the US, with three flagship AVOD streaming services: Redbox, Crackle, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. In addition, the company operates Redbox Free Live TV, a free ad-supported streaming television service (FAST), with nearly 180 FAST channels as well as a transaction video on demand (TVOD) service, and a network of approximately 29,000 kiosks across the US for DVD rentals. To provide original and exclusive content to its viewers, the company creates, acquires, and distributes films and TV series through its Screen Media and Chicken Soup for the Soul TV Group subsidiaries. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is a subsidiary of Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC, which publishes the famous book series and produces super-premium pet food under the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand name.
Adrian Amos x Pepsi
Los Angeles, CA - Equity Sports client Adrian Amos with the New York Jets is kicking off the NFL season by partnering with Pepsi for the NFL Pepsi Zero Sugar campaign. Click on this link https://www.pepsizerojersey.com/
to learn more and for a chance to win Adrian’s number zero jersey.
Welcome Tre Avery
Los Angeles, CA - The Equity Sports Family is excited to welcome Tennessee Titans CB Tre Avery to the agency. Go to the Equity Sports website to learn more. https://equity-sports.com/