Immediate Release – January 2022

ProRose Merges with an Affiliate of Confluent Holdings

St. Louis, MO (January 1, 2022) – ProRose today announced it has merged with an affiliate of Confluent Holdings. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

Confluent Holdings is a holding company based in St. Louis, Missouri, that acquires and builds leading small and medium sized businesses throughout the United States.

ProRose is a recognized leader in the promotional products industry, offering unique and useful items that are imprinted with corporate logos or promotional messages. ProRose’s product line consists of a variety of drinkware items such as acrylic tumblers and a full line of glassware. ProRose also offers a wide variety of napkin holders, drink pails, cutting boards, healthcare products, penlights, and popular take-a-penny trays. ProRose has maintained a long-standing reputation for delivering quality products; ProRose has achieved success through their commitment to long-term relationships with their customers. ProRose operations will continue to flourish at their Stamford, CT facility.

“We are excited to merge with ProRose, and expand our product range,” said Confluent Chief Operating Officer Jason Saghir. “For 34 years, ProRose has been producing innovative promotional products, and we look forward to investing in and continuing their tradition of exceptional customer service.”

“I am proud to partner with Confluent,” said Ron Rosencrans, the Founder of ProRose. “As I got to know the team at Confluent and their family of companies over the past year, I found they shared our commitment to putting the customer’s needs first and delivering the highest quality product on time. I’m confident their stewardship of ProRose will allow us to continue to exceed the expectations of our customers, and provide an exceptional career opportunity for our employees.”

ABOUT CONFLUENT HOLDINGS

Confluent Holdings (Confluentholdings.com) is a holding company based in St. Louis, Missouri, that acquires and builds leading small and medium sized businesses throughout the United States. We are dedicated to our guiding principles: operating at the highest level of integrity, and creating long-term value for all of our constituents. We have the resources, capital, performance improvement systems and experience to support and strengthen our companies, and we invest in our businesses to facilitate stable, long-term growth.

ABOUT PROROSE

ProRose is a recognized leader in the promotional products industry, offering unique and useful items that are imprinted with corporate logos or promotional messages. ProRose’s product line consists of a variety of drinkware items: acrylic tumblers, disposable cups, novel drinking glasses, pitchers, and themed shots glasses and tasting cups as well as a full line of glassware. ProRose also offers a wide variety of napkin holders, trays, galvanized buckets, drink pails, cutting boards, bottle openers, dog tags, cork coasters, healthcare products, penlights, table talkers, grocery lane dividers and our popular take-a-penny trays. All of the ProRose products create a great impression with your logo boldly printed on them, and give your image added value. ProRose is proud of our service and commitment to excellence. Towards that end we have been selected year after year as both an ASI 5-star supplier and a SAGE A+ supplier.

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Contact

Jason Saghir
Chief Operating Officer, Confluent Holdings
Jason.saghir@confluentholdings.com
(617) 872-3586

Ron Rosencrans
Founder, ProRose
Rosencrans@prorose.com
(203) 353-1457