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Luggage Forward

The Deal

Bought By
Audrey Kohout and Jessica Palfrey
Year
Not published by any primary source
Four backers carry it and two of them date only their own 2022 investments, one of them to late in the year; the other two list the company. No page opened states when the purchase closed.
Vehicle
Backed by Peterson Partners, Hunter Search Capital, Search Fund Partners and Applied Equity
Kind
Physical operations

A luggage logistics business that ships bags door to door for travelers under two brands, Luggage Forward and LugLess, often through channel partnerships with resorts and cruise lines.

What Happened Next

Trading under its own name, with three backers carrying it: the index host names both co-chief executives beside a late-2022 investment, a second names one of them beside its 2022 investment, and the third lists the company among its search funds.

The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.

Backed by the Same Firms

Hunter Search Capital

Search Fund Partners

Peterson Partners

Method & Source

This record is double-sourced: it joined when the purchase and, where the company has traded on, the exit could both be read in primary accounts rather than inferred.

These sources name who runs the business and when the firm invested, rather than saying in a sentence that the searchers bought it. The index host names both women as chief executives beside a late-2022 investment; one backer's entrepreneur page names one of them as co-chief executive beside its 2022 investment; a third lists the company under its search funds and a fourth lists it alone. Nothing says either bought it.