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Private equity targets North American pool manufacturing with Wilbar Group investment

7/19/2026

Against a backdrop of steady private equity appetite for consumer-adjacent industrials, lower middle market deal flow has reached the aboveground pool sector.

StoneTree Investment Partners, a firm focused on industrial businesses at the smaller end of the buyout market, completed a strategic investment in Wilbar Group on July 9, 2026, according to a Dallas announcement.

What Wilbar Group makes and who owns it now Wilbar Group is a North American manufacturer of aboveground pools. The company encompasses at least two operating units: Wilbar International and Trendium Pool.

No financial terms were disclosed. StoneTree describes its mandate as targeting lower middle market industrial businesses.

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