Mergers & Acquisitions

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...

International Paper (IP) has entered into an agreement with West Coast Paper Mills Limited to sell its controlling interest in International Paper APPM Limited, an India-based paper business. International Paper currently owns approximately 30 million...

Premier Marketing Group (PMG), a division of Grossman Marketing Group, has acquired Suncoast Print Solutions of Sarasota, Fla., marking Grossman’s fifth acquisition in the past six years...

Cenveo Worldwide Limited announced the sale of its long-run labels and receipt paper assets to Duluth, Georgia-based Iconex LLC, a portfolio company of Atlas Holdings. The sale includes the Joplin, Missouri, and Jefferson City, Tennessee plants, as well as certain assets located in the Vernon, California plant...

Peter Schaefer, a principal at New Direction Partners, and Mark Michelson, editor-in-chief of Printing Impressions, a sister brand of Print+Promo, predict how the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Div., will rule on the pending acquisition of LSC by Quad. They also discuss—assuming the deal gets finalized—how it will ultimately impact...