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TPG Capital

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Private equity firm

Formerly known as Texas Pacific Group. One of the world's largest private equity firms, with $54.5 billion of capital under management. Acquired Australian poultry processor Inghams in 2013 for $900m.

TPG Capital LP   USA     website   email      

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Company Assessment

PRAISE CRITICISM INFORMATION
TPG Capital LP
Social Involvement with Burma
This company appears on Burma Campaign UK's 'Dirty List' of companies assisting the Burmese military to continue to commit human rights violations and environmental destruction. TPG is the majority owner of Tower Holdings. Tower Holdings in turn owns two telecoms towers companies in Burma, Apollo Towers and Pan Asia Towers, both of which work for the military joint venture mobile phone network company Mytel.
Source: Burma Campaign UK (2019)
Business Ethics Collusion lawsuit
In 2014, this company, together with other private equity firms Blackstone and KKR, agreed to pay US$325m to settle a lawsuit that accused seven private equity groups of conspiring to fix the prices of some of the world's biggest leveraged buyouts.
Source: Financial Times (2014)
Social Underpaid workers
TPG Capital LP neglected to pay its administrative assistants more than $9m in overtime according to a class action removed to the California federal court in December 2012.
Source: Law 360 (2012)
Business Ethics Sustainability claims
This company has a number of sustainablity claims on its website.
Source: company website (2020)
Business Ethics OpenSecrets.org profile
OpenSecrets.org tracks the influence of money on U.S. politics, and how that money affects policy and citizens' lives. Follow link to see this company's record of political donations, lobbying, outside spending and more.
Source: Open Secrets (2020)

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Company Details

Type Private company
Subsidiaries Inghams Group Ltd (10% owned) 

Poultry processing

Australia's second largest poultry producer (after Baiada). It was wholly-owned by Bob Ingham, son of the company's founder Walter Ingham, until March 2013, when it was sold to TPG Capital. Floated on the ASX in Nov 2016.

Contact Details

Address Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Email info@tpg.com
Website www.tpg.com

Products / Brands

Inghams (10% owned)
Chickadee Poultry
Ingham Poultry
Marion Bay free range free range  Poultry


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