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Investment Criteria

Warwick seeks to acquire reasonably valued companies with consistent records of profitable operations. We will consider investments in manufacturers of proprietary products, service companies and value-added distributors.

Targeted companies must also meet one or more of the following criteria:

	Recast EBITDA of $2 million to $10 million
	Favorable growth potential
	Leading market shares. We will consider companies with small, but rapidly growing shares of market
	Low cost position
	Recurring revenue streams

Warwick maintains several guiding principles with respect to:

	Investments are limited to companies that possess proven business models. Warwick has learned that it can add considerably more to the value of established businesses through its role of financial partner than it can to that of new ventures.
	Warwick utilizes relatively conservative capital structures that enable portfolio companies to withstand economic adversity. Such capital structures also allow companies to avoid the burdens of excessive debt service, and provide for opportunities to reinvest free cash flow toward improvement of the company's relative competitive position.
	Warwick's exit strategy, with respect to timing and form, is guided by market conditions. The firm typically utilizes secondary private sales. However, initial public offerings are also employed when Warwick believes that critical mass, sufficient earnings, and growth potential warrant the costs and risks of an IPO.