Each year, we are grateful for the opportunity to invest in market-leading companies alongside outstanding management teams. In 2025, we continued to make meaningful progress across our portfolio and firmwide initiatives, reflecting our disciplined and partnership-driven approach to investing.
During the year, we focused on supporting our portfolio companies as they executed on strategic growth initiatives, including add-on acquisitions and operational enhancements across several businesses. These efforts reflect our long-standing thematic investment strategy and our commitment to building durable, market-leading companies.
We also achieved important portfolio milestones during the year, including realizations and liquidity events that underscore our focus on disciplined capital stewardship and returning capital to our investors and co-investors. At the start of the year, we completed the sale of Simple Mills to Flowers Foods, followed by the sale of Presence Marketing to PLTFRM in February and Quest most recently in November. In addition, we completed a dividend recapitalization at 360training toward the end of the year. These outcomes reflect years of collaboration with management teams and a continued emphasis on thoughtful portfolio management.
As we look ahead to 2026, our focus remains on supporting our portfolio companies, driving long-term value creation, and navigating an evolving market environment with discipline and conviction. We thank our investors, management teams, and partners for their continued trust and collaboration.

Vestar sells Simple Mills

In January 2025 Vestar completed the sale of Simple Mills, a premium brand of better-for-you crackers, cookies, snack bars, and baking mixes, to Flowers Foods. Vestar partnered with CEO Katlin Smith and the Simple Mills management team in October 2019 to provide the first institutional investment into the brand. Over its five-year investment, Vestar, in collaboration with the Simple Mills leadership team, drove meaningful value creation across the Company.
Vestar sells Quest Analytics

In November 2025 Vestar completed the sale of Quest Analytics, a cornerstone healthcare technology platform that enables the creation of compliant, cost-effective, and equitable provider networks. Under Vestar’s ownership Quest transformed from a founder-led niche point solution to an integrated market leading platform.
Portfolio Activity
In 2025 we partnered closely with our existing portfolio company management teams to drive significant growth, both organically and through acquisition. We completed 6 acquisitions, welcomed new management leaders, and promoted growth, innovation, and optimization initiatives. We will continue our efforts to support and accelerate the potential of our portfolio investments.
Our Commitment to ESG & DEI
At Vestar, we are committed to our ESG & DEI programs. We proudly uphold our ESG pledge to promote DEI principles with transparency and accountability at the firmwide and portfolio level.
Questions? Please do not hesitate to reach out to our Investor Relations team.
— Ken O’Keefe and Alyssa Stropoli














