PLZ acquires Mansfield-King, expanding into personal care market

PLZ Aeroscience Corp., a specialty aerosol and liquid product manufacturer for private label and branded products, has acquired a fast-growing company that produces personal care products in the men’s grooming market.

Downers Grove, Ill.-based PLZ acquired Mansfield-King LLC, adding the company’s Midwest plant. The facility joins PLZ locations in California and four other aerosol plants in the United States and Canada.

PLZ described Mansfield-King as one of the fastest-growing personal care manufacturers in the United States, producing a variety of personal care products and managing end-to-end solutions from product development and formulation to blending, filling and packaging.

Mansfield-King serves as a valued strategic partner to mid-sized brands and maintains long-standing relationships with its customers across the professional, multicultural/textured and men’s grooming markets. 

“We are very excited to be partnering with the Mansfield-King team,” said Ed Byczynski, PLZ’s president and CEO. “Mansfield-King is a leading innovator within the specialty personal care market, and we believe they will be a fantastic addition to PLZ as we continue growing our personal care footprint across North America.”

This acquisition builds on PLZ’s 2019 acquisition of California-based Liquid Technologies Inc., which expanded PLZ’s liquid production capabilities and customer base within the personal care market. The PLZ family of companies specializes in the development, manufacturing, packaging and distribution of a comprehensive line of contract fill, branded and private label products for a variety of consumer and industrial end markets. PLZ is owned by Pritzker Private Capital and management.