Carlyle Group Launches New Corporate Website

Washington, DC - Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group launched today its new corporate website, www.carlyle.com. The website features 1,500 pages of new and expanded content about The Carlyle Group, its nearly 300 investment professionals, senior management, and the firm’s investment approach and portfolio companies.

Carlyle Co-Founder and Managing Director David M. Rubenstein, “Our goal is to set a new standard for transparency and disclosure in the private equity industry. With so many public institutions as our investors, Carlyle understands the need to share as much information as possible with the financial community, our investors, the media, and the general public. Reflecting our global nature and diversity of funds, all key information on the website is available by fund, industry, and geography. We have 21 funds in four investment disciplines operating in 12 countries with more than 500 staff. The site captures the scope of Carlyle and presents information in a simple and useable format.”

Highlights of the new website:

• Corporate and real estate portfolio

• Charts depicting assets under management and asset allocation by fund, industry, and geography

• Details Carlyle’s eight industry specialties, including the portfolios within each and the teams affiliated with each

• Biographies of nearly 300 investment professionals

• Details Carlyle’s 21 funds, including investment approach, team, and portfolio

• Case studies of more than 30 Carlyle portfolio companies

• Frequently asked questions about Carlyle and the private equity industry, including descriptions of the duties of Carlyle’s senior officials

• Advisory board members

• Fact sheets on Carlyle’s industry groups and funds

• Business proposal submission mechanism

• Detailed contact information for public, media, investors, and job seekers

• 1,500 pages of new and expanded content

Carlyle VP for Corporate Communications Chris Ullman said, “Many people played a role in designing and building this new website. I commend my colleagues in the corporate communications and information technology groups at Carlyle for their hard work and creativity. Further, we thank Silver Oven Studios of Portsmouth, N.H. for their design work and White House Writers Group, Inc., a Washington, DC-based communications consulting firm for their content development work.”

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