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The latest from Specific Industries and its portfolio companies.
April 8, 2026
Specific Industries Announces Q2 Portfolio Highlights, Declines to Define Highlight Criteria
Specific Industries today announced its Q2 2026 Portfolio Highlights, a quarterly internal review of the firm's 28 active portfolio brands. The Portfolio Highlights program was established in 2021 and has been distributed every quarter since. The criteria by which a given portfolio brand is deemed a 'highlight' has not been formally documented.
Read more →March 17, 2026
Specific Industries Completes Acquisition of Boneless Water Holdings
Specific Industries today announced the completion of its acquisition of Boneless Water Holdings, the pharmaceutical-grade deboned-water brand founded in 2021 on the premise that the skeletal structure of water has gone underaddressed since 1873. Boneless Water joins the firm's Consumer Goods & Consumables vertical, bringing the total active portfolio to 28 brands.
Read more →February 22, 2026
Specific Industries Names J. Rutherford Pennington as Chief Disruption Evangelist
Specific Industries today announced the appointment of J. Rutherford Pennington as Chief Disruption Evangelist, effective immediately. Pennington will lead the firm's public-facing posture of disruption across the Professional Services & Emerging Ventures vertical.
Read more →January 29, 2026
Specific Industries Closes Deal with Gristmill Partners; Heritage Division Expands
Specific Industries today announced the closing of its acquisition of Gristmill Partners, the Fortune-500-facing workforce stabilization consultancy, privately held since 1962. Gristmill joins the firm's Consumer Goods & Consumables vertical, where it represents the portfolio's heritage-services subclass.
Read more →January 14, 2026
Seel-Tite Containment Systems Announces OPX-15 Revision; Walter Thorne Signs In Person
Seel-Tite Containment Systems, a Specific Industries portfolio brand in the Personal Hygiene & Home Essentials vertical, today announced the release of OPX-15, the latest revision to its proprietary containment port standard. As is customary for the brand, founder Walter Thorne has personally signed the revision specification.
Read more →December 3, 2025
Specific Industries Expands Subscription Services Vertical with Only Pans Acquisition
Specific Industries today announced the acquisition of Only Pans, a subscription cookware platform, expanding the firm's Subscription Services vertical to two active brands. Only Pans joins Only Fans, an oscillating-fan subscription platform, in the vertical.
Read more →November 11, 2025
True Grit Personal Care Launches New Grit Category; Market Segment 'Too Specific to Define'
True Grit Personal Care, a portfolio brand in Specific Industries' Hygiene vertical, today announced an extension of its industrial-grade personal cleansing product line, introducing a new grit category aimed at consumers who have, in the brand's phrasing, 'given up on softer options entirely.'
Read more →October 2, 2025
Specific Industries Appoints Inaugural VP of Portfolio Company Naming Conventions
Specific Industries today announced the appointment of its inaugural VP of Portfolio Company Naming Conventions. The appointee's name has not been disclosed, in keeping with the firm's standing policy on role announcements prior to year-end review.
Read more →August 19, 2025
Strategic Void Consulting Recognized in Consulting Magazine's 'Firms That Continue to Exist' 2025 Issue
Strategic Void Consulting, a Specific Industries portfolio brand in the Professional Services & Emerging Ventures vertical, was today recognized in Consulting Magazine's annual 'Firms That Continue to Exist' feature, marking the firm's fourth consecutive year of inclusion in the publication's category.
Read more →December 31, 2024
Specific Industries Issues Year-End Letter to Stakeholders; Stakeholders Remain Undefined
Specific Industries today issued its annual Year-End Letter to Stakeholders. The letter was distributed to the firm's internal communications channel and archived on the firm's website. The specific identity of the firm's stakeholders remains, as in prior years, a subject of internal interpretation.
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