Benford Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in investments in leveraged and management buyouts, corporate divestitures, add-on acquisition, industry consolidation, recapitalization of existing ownership or management, buyouts of retiring owner or majority or minority shareholder, and generational transfers in family businesses in small, lower middle, and mature markets. It prefers to invest in niche manufacturers of consumer and industrial products, unique service companies, specialty distributors, measuring, analyzing, and controlling Instruments, catalog retail, aerospace, and defense.