N.Y. company buys local cleaning supplies firm

3/25/2006

Impact Products LLC, a Sylvania Township manufacturer of janitorial cleaning and safety products, has been acquired by Hampshire Equity Partners, a New York private-equity firm, from Park Avenue Equity Partners, also a New York private-equity company.

Terms were not disclosed. Jeff Beery, chief financial officer of Impact, said yesterday he doesn't anticipate changes in the work force of about 150 at the firm, at 2840 Centennial Rd. It has annual sales of about $65 million, he said.

Impact was founded in 1963.