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Catching the Falling Knife versus Personal Branding – April 2015 M&A Activity
A Maine newspaper group has cleaned up its balance sheet, improved the quality of its journalism, and plans to improve the efficiency of its print operations. MaineToday Media announced that it is...
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De-evolution for eBooks Platform? – May 2015 M&A Activity
ProQuest, the world-class provider of digital content to libraries and researchers announced its commitment to provide printed copies of books with its acquisition ofCoutts Information Servicefrom the...
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Cloak and Dagger Inks Fight Counterfeiters – June 2015 M&A Activity
Australian company YPB announced that it has acquired California-based printing company,Continuous Forms Control (CFC), to introduce its covert ink compounds into the US market. YPB develops and...
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EFI Walks the Digital Fashion Runway - July 2015 M&A Activity
Digital printing of textiles takes center stage as EFI stakes out a leadership position with its acquisition of Reggiani Macchine, the highly specialized Italian manufacturer of textile printing...
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Newspaper Publishers Enter the Eye of the Storm - August 2015 M&A Activity
The future is becoming increasingly cloudy and uncertain for regional and community newspaper publishers; readers are drifting away from the printed form of news, and advertising revenues decline in...
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Turmoil in the Garden of Meredith - September 2015 M&A Activity
The once-lauded symbiotic relationship between print and broadcast media has wilted and seems destined for the compost heap. The last significant bastion of the print/broadcast synergistic strategy,...
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The Box is in Demand- October 2015 M&A Activity
The Box is in – paperboard, corrugated, decorated, foil-stamped, bar-coded, laminated, textured, embossed, pearlized, diecut, folded, glued, large and small. Folks in the business of printing love the...
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Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’ - November 2015 M&A Activity
Rawhide... by The Blues Brothers (click here for the song while reading)Call it a roll-up; strategic add-ons, or platform bolt-ons – by any name you give it, M&A activity is brisk as companies...
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Gestalting the Printing Industry - 2016 Forecast
Gestalt [guh-stawlt] noun - a perceptual pattern or structure possessing qualities as a whole that cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts. The Target Report has been chronicling merger,...
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POP! Retail Display Proves Attractive – January 2016 M&A Activity
As brick-and-mortar stores fight it out with online retailers, the in-store experience becomes an increasingly important reason why shoppers will still drive to and spend time in a traditional store....
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Cold Front Moves In – February 2016 M&A Activity
Is the market cooling off for companies in the printing, packaging and related industries? After the peak number of deals announced in January, there was a sudden and noticeable drop off in...
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Justice Department Saves Newspapers (really?) – March 2016 M&A Activity
The Department of Justice has entered the fray for the survival of printed news. As the bidding was being finalized to purchase the bankrupt Freedom Communications in Southern California, DOJ’s...
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A Puzzling Future for Specialty Magazines – April 2016 M&A Activity
Kappa Media Group, the publishing arm of centa-millionaire Nicholas Karabot’s Pennsylvania-based business empire, has doubled down on its investments in the printing industry with the acquisition of...
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Sticky Discipline for the Label Business – May 2016 M&A Activity
CCL Industries has proven to be an adept and disciplined serial acquirer of relatively small bolt-on transactions for its label and Avery divisions. The company announced another acquisition in the...
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Online, Mobile & Print – June 2016 M&A Activity
It’s a long way from the year 2000 when AOL famously bought Time Warner, then the largest media and entertainment company in the world, and also the publisher of many printed titles. The widely-touted...
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How Do You Print a Golf Ball? – July 2016 M&A Activity
Xaar, an inkjet technology company based in Cambridge, UK that manufacturers inkjet printheads for industrial printing acquired EngineeredPrinting Solutions, formerly known as Pad Printing Machinery of...
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Private Equity LOVES Labels – August 2016 M&A Activity
It’s a love affair - private equity firms are hot for printing companies that specialize in prime labels and flexible packaging. AEA Investors, a New York City-based private equity fund, announced that...
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Managed Print Services Take Center Stage – September 2016 M&A Activity
HP, the spun-off printer and PC division of the technology powerhouse, doubled down on the small-format distributed printing device market, acquiring Samsung’s printer division. The acquisition is HP’s...
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Moving Pieces Around on the PE Chessboard – October 2016 M&A Activity
Where does a private equity company go to sell a printing or packaging company when the time comes to exit the investment and return funds to its investors? The large public firms executing national...
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“Just One Word: Plastics” – November 2016 M&A Activity
It’s been almost 50 years since the young Dustin Hoffman, in his role as the confused Benjamin in the 1967 movie The Graduate was offered sage advice about his future career. In the now famous line, a...
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