Molting occurs about once a year in an adult lobster and is a vulnerable time in which the lobster retreats to a hiding spot and withdraws out of its shell. After molting the lobster's body is very soft and it can take a few months for its shell to harden again.
Madison Capital Funding closed a senior debt facility to finance the Dividend Recapitalization of Goosehead Insurance. Madison Capital Funding is the Sole Lender and Administrative Agent. Further terms were not disclosed. Goosehead Insurance is one of the largest and fastest growing personal lines insurance agencies in the country. Founded in 2001, Madison Capital Funding is a market leader in supporting middle market private equity sponsors with cash-flow based corporate finance products.
Goose Island Brewery is a brewery located in Chicago, Illinois, that began as a single brewpub opened by John Hall in May 1988 in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, and named after a nearby island. The larger brewery (as we know it today) was opened in 1995, while the second brewpub, Wrigleyville, was opened in 1999. On March 28, 2011, Goose Island announced that it would be selling its 58% stake in Fulton Street Brewery LLC (the legal name of Goose Island Brewing) to distribution partner Anheuser-Busch InBev. The remaining 42% stake, owned by Craft Brew Alliance, was also purchased by Anheuser-Busch.