Bad Boy Mowers is currently owned by private equity firm The Sterling Group , which holds the company through its investment funds and controls it as a portfolio company.

Current ownership

  • The Sterling Group, a Houston-based private equity firm, lists Bad Boy Mowers (Bad Boy, Inc.) as one of its portfolio companies, held in its Funds IV and V.
  • This confirms that Bad Boy is no longer purely founder-owned but is controlled by Sterling Group through its investment stake.

How ownership evolved

  • Bad Boy Mowers was founded in 1998 in Batesville, Arkansas, and operated for years as a founder-owned business, with Phil Pulley identified as the sole owner after an internal reorganization.
  • In 2019, The Sterling Group announced an investment in Bad Boy, marking the shift from exclusively founder ownership to private equity-backed ownership while continuing to grow the brand and product lines.

TL;DR: Bad Boy Mowers (Bad Boy, Inc.) is owned and controlled by The Sterling Group, a middle-market private equity firm, following its investment in the formerly founder-owned company.

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