Swander Pace expands Captek’s operations less than two years after acquiring the firm and seven months after investing in a protein supplement manufacturer as one of numerous private equity firms active in the nutritional products space.

Clorox Co. enters the probiotics space with a $290m purchase of Renew Life, a firm with annual sales of $115m. Clorox plans to expand the firm's lines in the natural product and mass retail markets while targeting new points of sale.