The Wind River Approach
Investing the time, Charting the course, Creating the future

For nearly 100 years, Wind River Holdings® has helped its portfolio companies realize their full potential by driving sustainable, profitable growth.

Wind River Holdings, L.P, a privately-held organization formerly known as The AMC Group, L.P., selectively acquires businesses in a wide range of industries. Unlike other investment organizations, Wind River does not use short-term financial engineering, quick-fixes or cuts to achieve growth. Instead, it invests its resources to create compelling long-term business strategies. To date, this approach has produced an impressive track record of success.

Central to Wind River’s success has been acquiring companies with talented leaders. There is no substitute for the strength, drive and enthusiasm a strong president brings to an organization. But it doesn’t stop there. Wind River uses its proprietary Strategic Architecture Process to help the president set the company’s long-term goals and the operating plans to achieve them. Uniquely, the strategy process is conducted with a cross-functional team of company executives and external resources, not just the president. All of the strategic decisions are made by consensus in a series of sessions facilitated by Wind River executives. This brings a variety of business perspectives and areas of expertise into the strategic plan. It also builds commitment and enthusiasm across the organization for the final outcome. The combination of broad consensus and strong leadership has proven to be the secret to the success of the Wind River portfolio companies.

Wind River views the product of the Strategic Architecture Process – the company’s final strategy and implementation plan – as an agreement. Company management commits to embrace the final plan and to execute it in the market. Wind River provides the support the organization needs through access to capital, transfer of best practices between companies and a variety of administrative, tax and financial resources needed for day-to-day operations.