Mergers & Acquisitions

GBS Brand Connect, Canton, Ohio, has acquired Amplify Marketing, Birmingham, Alabama. Nadav Raviv, CEO of Amplify Marketing, anticipated the business-model change at the onset of the pandemic. At that juncture, in March 2020, Raviv determined that in order to focus on the PPE shift, he would separate from his former distributorship...

Just three months after SupplyLogic and WebbMason Marketing announced that they would merge the two companies, the combined company (SLWM) announced that it has been acquired by Gallant Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based investment firm...

The Occasions Group, a Taylor Corporation company, has reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Accu Copy of Greenville Inc. Headquartered in Greenville, North Carolina, Accu Copy does business under the AccuLink name to deliver commercial print, direct mail and promotional marketing products, while its AccuFlex division...

Stran & Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, announced the completion of its acquisition of the assets and business of Trend Brand Solutions under its previously announced asset purchase agreement. As contemplated under the agreement, Stran also...

Ennis Inc., Midlothian, Texas, has purchased assets — including customer lists and intellectual property — from Gulf Business Forms, a San Marcos, Texas-based trade printer with more than 50 years of experience producing custom-printed documents. Known for its acquisition strategy, Ennis, the only print-centric company to rank within the top three of Print+Promo Marketing’s...

Tri-Mountain, Irwindale, California, announced last week that it will cease operations "in the near future" after almost 30 years in business. In a release, the company said that its stock, blank inventory will be available on a final sale business through tomorrow. Decorated orders already in the works will...

RELYCO, Dover, New Hampshire, recently announced the acquisition of Business Forms Inc. (BFI), Roanoke, Virginia. RELYCO, a specialty paper and AP solutions provider, will begin supplying checks and forms to BFI customers immediately. RELYCO was founded over 30 years ago as a check supplier, and has since expanded into...

Quincy, Massachusetts-based Stran & Company, Inc. announced the signing of a definitive asset…

SupplyLogic and WebbMason Marketing recently announced that they have reached an agreement to merge the two entities. Combining the brands provides a portfolio of tech-enabled marketing services and solutions for print, digital, point-of-sale and branded merchandise program execution. Phil Schoonmaker, CEO, will lead the combined entity...

Though too soon to tell if M&A will return to pre-pandemic levels, recent transactions suggest some trends that are likely to conti