The foundation of our investment philosophy consists of two core principles:
- Partner with entrepreneurial management
- Focus on creating long-term value

Gallagher Industries offers key management meaningful opportunities to invest along side us. Forging true alliances with entrepreneurial management, we advance our businesses with all interests firmly aligned. Collectively, we build strategies and open doors to new business horizons through internal growth, capital investment and strategic acquisitions.
We encourage our management partners to think like true entrepreneurs and to act independently while driving daily operations. Our role is to serve as a resource to management, contributing strategic vision, tactical guidance and financial expertise at the Board and operating levels. We also bring an unprecedented commitment to the people that make up our businesses, with an in-house senior officer responsible for human resources oversight in all of our holdings. Taken together, we breed success with every management team that we partner with as we strive to provide safe, healthy work environments that promote the development and success of every employee.

Gallagher Industries understands that time is an asset when building great companies. Rather than racing to post short-term returns, we focus on maximizing long-term value. We are patient investors who commit the time necessary to realize the full potential we identify at the time of an acquisition. We target owning a business for at least seven to ten years, because in our experience, more is often accomplished by building upon a winning company than by creating one. When we decide to exit, it is because we believe that others are better positioned to add even greater future value.