Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be complex—and there’s a lot to account for on both the buyer and seller side. Think about it this way: A coach usually has a game plan in place before the first play. Similarly, a company wouldn’t strike a deal without careful consideration of the current business landscape and other influential factors...

Following last week’s news that SGIA acquired NAPCO Media, the parent company of Print+Promo, SGIA CEO Ford Bowers and NAPCO Media President Dave Leskusky discussed the acquisition in further detail and the impact it will have on the industries the organizations serve...

In a move that further enhances its current partnership with NAPCO Media and creates unprecedented value for the industry, the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) today announced that it has acquired NAPCO Media...

Quad and LSC Communications have mutually agreed to terminate their merger agreement pursuant to which Quad would have acquired LSC. The all-stock transaction was announced on Oct. 31, 2018, and was approved by shareholders...

The Sourcing Group, headquartered in New York, has acquired Ray Hough Company, a Pittsburgh-based print distributor, serving more than 400 customers throughout the mid-Atlantic and Midwest...

Ennis Inc., Midlothian, Texas, announced the signing of a share purchase agreement to acquire all the outstanding stock of Flesh Co and its wholly owned subsidiary, Impressions Direct Inc...

Multi-Color Corp. is being merged with WS Packaging, another label solutions provider that Platinum Equity purchased in February 2018. The combined company, which will be known as Multi-Color Corp. and headquartered in Cincinnati, is a $2.2 billion enterprise with 86 plants in 26 countries and more than 10,000 global employees...

In what many printing industry observers, including myself, view as a shocking development, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Div., filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on June 20 seeking to block Quad’s proposed $1.4 billion, all-stock acquisition of LSC Communications...

The proposed $1.4 billion acquisition of Chicago-based LSC Communications by Sussex, Wisconsin-based Quad still faces one last hurdle: approval from the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) antitrust division. All along, Quad Chairman...

Acquisitions are finicky. When you’re on the buyer side, it’s almost like playing a game of poker, or like buying a used car. You don’t want to show all of your cards to the other players. You don’t want to let on exactly what you’re doing or hint at your next move...