Mergers & Acquisitions

It's been a big week for Chicago-based LSC Communications. Not only did the company announce a definitive agreement with Chicago-based R.R. Donnelley (RRD) to acquire the Print Logistics component of RRD's business, it also announced an agreement with Trend Offset wherein Trend will acquire LSC's retail offset printing facilities...

Ennis Inc., through one of its subsidiaries, has acquired Allen-Bailey Tag & Label, Caledonia, N.Y., in a purchase of assets and assumption of trade payables. A majority of employees will continue to run the business in the same location. Allen-Bailey Tag & Label has a long history in Caledonia, stretching back almost 70 years. The company produces tags and labels for the fire safety and agriculture...

The Combined Locks paper mill formerly home to Appleton Coated will begin doing business under the name “Midwest Paper Group.” The new entity was established by Industrial Assets and Maynards after their October 2017 purchase of substantially all the assets of Appleton Coated LLC. The company restarted the facility in December...

Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson continued to pursue an acquisition deal with Fujifilm Holdings, even after the Xerox board of directors instructed him to halt negotiations last November, and at the same time that the board was considering replacing Jacobson with a new Xerox CEO. Those are just some of the latest accusations levied by...

Performance POP, a point-of-purchase print and display solutions company, and The Gough Group, a full-service creative agency, visual production studio and digital printing studio, announced that the companies have merged. The merger enables clients to go from creative concept to complete execution of marketing campaigns seamlessly...

PDF Print Communications, Signal Hill, Calif., has entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets of Madison Forms Corporation, Madison, Wis. The closing of the transaction is anticipated to occur on April 1, 2018, and is conditioned upon the receipt of all necessary government approvals, financing and...

Mark Michelson, editor-in-chief of our sister brand Printing Impressions, recently sat down with Peter Schaefer, a partner with printing industry M&A and investment banking firm New Direction Partners, to get his take on Cenveo's recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Here, Schaefer analyzes...

Glatfelter's earnings report said Specialty Papers’ net sales decreased $14.1 million, or 6.9 percent. Turbulent market conditions, coupled with operating inefficiencies, led to lower profitability, according to Glatfelter Chairman and CEO Dante C. Parrini...

Xerox Corp. and Fujifilm Holdings announced a definitive agreement to combine Xerox and their longstanding Fuji Xerox joint venture, creating an $18 billion company. Fujifilm will own a controlling 50.1 percent of the combined company, marking the end of Xerox as an independent company...

Last week, Print+Promo broke the news that DemandBridge had acquired Kramer-Smilko Inc., a software company based in Bel Air, Md. The purchase of Kramer-Smilko comes on the heels of DemandBridge’s acquisition this past October of Reno, Nevada-based e-Quantum Inc., further enhancing...