Type LLP Website Frontenac Company Founded 1971 | Number of employees 14 Founder Martin J. Koldyke | |
Frontenac Company is a Chicago-based private equity firm founded in 1971.
History
The firm was originally backed by the Laird Norton Company, a large family enterprise operating in the Western United States. The firm was named for the Frontenac,a paddle steamer that transported logs up and down the Mississippi River, which in turn was named for Louis de Buade de Frontenac, the Governor of New France in the central part of the US.
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