Mergers & Acquisitions

Pixelle Specialty Solutions LLC, a manufacturer of specialty papers in North America, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the carbonless rolls and security papers business of Appvion Operations Inc. The transaction is expected to close in April 2021 and will not include any Appvion production assets...

Consolidated Marketing Services (CMS), Somerville, Mass., has acquired the award-winning promotional merchandise agency Progressive Promotions. Progressive, which was founded in 1987 and had its strongest year ever in 2020, will retain its Englewood, N.J., office, personnel and contact information, and will...

BAMKO's decision to acquire Gifts By Design was influenced by the company's belief that awards and employee recognition products for people working from home will be a major piece of the promotional market in the near future...

S&S Activewear and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) announced a new partnership in which CD&R-managed funds will invest alongside current owners and management to acquire S&S Activewear, a leading North American distributor of imprintable apparel and accessories...

PRINTING United Alliance and Idealliance today announced the intent to merge the two organizations. The board of directors at each company have unanimously voted in favor of the merger...

ODP, parent company of Office Depot, has rejected Staples’ most recent acquisition proposal, coming back with a counter-offer to merge the two companies’ direct-to-consumer retail operations without including Office Depot's business-to-business operations...

Smart Source, Suwanee, Ga., has acquired the majority of assets of Grandflow Inc., Livermore, Calif. Grandflow was founded in 1973 as Grand Business Forms by Carl Rusca, and offers premier document management services, along with print and promotional products, to its clients...

Ennis Inc. closed out the year by closing a deal. Effective Dec. 31, 2020, one of the Midlothian, Texas-based supplier’s wholly owned subsidiaries acquired the assets and assumed some liabilities of Roanoke, Virginia-based InfoSeal LLC...

Corporate Development Associates (CDA), Scottsdale, Ariz., has announced the addition of printing industry veteran Allen Simon to its deal-making team as an associate. Simon spent the bulk of his 39-year career at Datatel Resources Corporation, based in...

Koozie Group (previously BIC Graphic North America), a portfolio company of H.I.G. Capital, has announced the completion of the acquisition of IMAGEN Brands with the support of H.I.G. IMAGEN Brands, whose companies include Vitronic and Crown, is a...