Private labeling allows brands to outsource product sourcing and manufacturing to a third party. With private labeling, you apply the brand to the packaging only when it is time to sell the product.

While Metrics is a private credit pioneer, and has won the backing of big funds, brokers, advisers and research consultants, its rise has been the subject of endless fascination and divided opinions.

Despite their reputation in the 1980s as corporate raiders, most private equity firms attempt to improve the performance of their portfolio companies through better corporate governance. But while ...