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Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Presentation and Principles of Consolidation Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
Compass Diversified Holdings, a Delaware statutory trust (the "Trust") and Compass Group Diversified Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the "LLC"), were formed to acquire and manage a group of small and middle-market businesses headquartered in North America. Collectively, Compass Diversified Holdings and Compass Group Diversified Holdings, LLC are referred to as the "Company". In accordance with the Third Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of August 3, 2021 (as further amended and restated, the "Trust Agreement"), the Trust is sole owner of 100% of the Trust Interests (as defined in the Company’s Sixth Amended and Restated Operating Agreement, dated as of August 3, 2021 (as further amended and restated, the "LLC Agreement")) of the LLC and, pursuant to the LLC Agreement, the LLC has, outstanding, the identical number of Trust Interests as the number of outstanding common shares of the Trust. The LLC is the operating entity with a board of directors and other corporate governance responsibilities, similar to that of a Delaware corporation.

The LLC is a controlling owner of nine businesses, or operating segments, at March 31, 2025. The segments are as follows: 5.11 Acquisition Corp. ("5.11"), Boa Holdings Inc. ("BOA"), Lugano Holding, Inc. ("Lugano Diamonds" or "Lugano"), Relentless Topco, Inc. ("PrimaLoft"), THP Topco, Inc. ("The Honey Pot Co." or "THP"), CBCP Products, LLC ("Velocity Outdoor" or "Velocity"), AMTAC Holdings LLC ("Arnold"), FFI Compass, Inc. ("Altor Solutions" or "Altor"), and SternoCandleLamp Holdings, Inc. ("Sterno"). The segments are referred to interchangeably as “businesses”, “operating segments” or “subsidiaries” throughout the financial statements. Refer to Note P - "Operating Segment Data" for further discussion of the operating segments. Compass Group Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability Company ("CGM" or the "Manager"), manages the day-to-day operations of the LLC and oversees the management and operations of our businesses pursuant to a management services agreement (the "Management Services Agreement" or "MSA").
Basis of Presentation
The condensed consolidated financial statements for the three month periods ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024 are unaudited, and in the opinion of management, contain all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the condensed consolidated financial statements. Such adjustments consist solely of normal recurring items. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year or any subsequent interim period. The condensed consolidated financial statements and notes are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("U.S. GAAP" or "GAAP") and presented as permitted by Form 10-Q and do not contain certain information included in the annual consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes of the Company. These interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included in the Company’s 2024 Form 10-K/A.
Going Concern
As of the date of filing this Form 10-Q, the Company is not in compliance with certain financial and other covenants under its 2022 Credit Facility. These instances of noncompliance include (i) breaches of financial covenants under the 2022 Credit Facility in historical periods (including December 31, 2024), resulting from required retesting of such covenants in connection with the restatement of our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years as of and ended December 31, 2022, 2023, and 2024 and the interim periods therein, (ii) and prior defaults and events of default resulting from the circumstances related to Lugano.
The Company is currently operating under a forbearance agreement with its lenders under the 2022 Credit Facility as described in “Note Q – Subsequent Events”, while the Company negotiates an amendment to the 2022 Credit Facility to account for the deconsolidation of Lugano from the Company’s financial statements and Lugano’s entry into Chapter 11 proceedings (also as discussed in more detail in “Note Q – Subsequent Events”). The forbearance agreement is scheduled to expire on December 19, 2025. If an amendment to the 2022 Credit Facility is not executed on or before December 19, 2025, then beginning December 20, 2025 the lenders under the 2022 Credit Facility may elect to exercise the remedies available to them, including but not limited to declaring borrowings due and payable, discontinuing further lending commitments, imposing cash-management controls, and instructing customers to remit payments directly to the administrative agent.
If our borrowings under the 2022 Credit Facility are accelerated and the acceleration is not rescinded, annulled, or otherwise cured within thirty (30) days after the notice of acceleration, the holders of the 5.250% Senior Notes due
2029 (the "2029 Notes" or "2029 Senior Notes") and 5.000% Senior Notes due 2032 (the “2032 Notes” or "2032 Senior Notes") would have the right to declare the notes due and payable as well.
Because there can be no assurance that amendments to the Company’s debt instruments or any other relief will be obtained before an acceleration remedy would become available to the 2022 Credit Facility lenders or the holders of the 2029 Notes and 2032 Notes, management has concluded, applying the going-concern guidance under U.S. GAAP, that these conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date the consolidated financial statements included in this Form 10-Q are issued. Although the Company is actively negotiating an amendment to the 2022 Credit Facility that would include a waiver of ongoing noncompliance, that amendment has not been executed, is not fully within the Company’s control, and therefore cannot be considered a probable mitigating plan for purposes of alleviating substantial doubt.
The Company is pursuing various operational and financial initiatives intended to strengthen liquidity and reduce leverage, including evaluating potential subsidiary divestitures, organic deleveraging actions, potential strategic transactions involving real estate, and actions to maximize recoveries in connection with Lugano’s Chapter 11 proceedings. If successfully executed, these plans could enhance the Company’s ability to continue to operate and meet its obligations; however, because these initiatives are not committed or fully within management’s control, they have not been assumed in the Company’s going concern evaluation and may not be achieved on the timetable necessary to alleviate the substantial doubt described above.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which assumes the Company will continue to realize its assets and satisfy its liabilities in the ordinary course of business. For additional information regarding the impact of the Company’s covenant noncompliance on the classification of the Company’s indebtedness, see “Note H – Debt”.
Consolidation
The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, as well as the businesses acquired as of their respective acquisition date. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Discontinued operating entities are reflected as discontinued operations in the Company's results of operations and statements of financial position.
Discontinued Operations
The Company completed the sale of EBP Lifestyle Brands Holdings, Inc. (“Ergobaby”) during the fourth quarter of 2024. The results of operations of Ergobaby are reported as discontinued operations in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2024. Refer to Note C - "Dispositions" for additional information. Unless otherwise indicated, the disclosures accompanying the condensed consolidated financial statements reflect the Company's continuing operations.
Restatement of Previously Reported Interim Financial Statements
As previously disclosed, in April 2025 the Audit Committee of Board of Directors (the “Audit Committee”) of the Company commenced an internal investigation into the financing, accounting, and inventory practices of Lugano Holding, Inc. (“Lugano”), a subsidiary and operating segment of the Company, based on concerns reported to Company management as to these practices. The findings of the investigation (the "Lugano Investigation") identified certain unrecorded financing arrangements and irregularities in sales, cost of sales, inventory, and accounts receivable recorded by Lugano. As a result of these findings, the Company restated its previously issued audited consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 and for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 as well as the interim periods in the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 (collectively, the “Affected Periods”) for the correction of historical financial information related to Lugano. Management identified misstatements in each of the Affected Periods that the Company deemed to be material as a result of the Lugano Investigation.
Previously reported information as of March 31, 2024 and for the three months ended March 31, 2024 in this Form 10-Q have been updated to reflect the restatement.
Seasonality
Earnings of certain of our operating segments are seasonal in nature due to various recurring events, holidays and seasonal weather patterns, as well as the timing of our acquisitions during a given year. Historically, the third and fourth quarter have produced the highest net sales in our fiscal year, however, due to various acquisitions in the last
three years, there has generally been less seasonality in our net sales on a consolidated basis in recent years than there was historically.