MINNEAPOLIS—DigiGraphics, an Imagine! Print Solutions-owned company since January of 2012, is changing its name to Imagine! Express Minneapolis and adding complete commercial printing and direct mail capabilities to its lineup of equipment and services.
DigiGraphics, an Imagine! Print Solutions-owned company based in Minneapolis, is changing its name to Imagine! Express Minneapolis, and has also purchased an 80,000-square-foot facility, which is next door to its current location near downtown Minneapolis. The company is also adding complete commercial printing with a new 41" KBA press, a six-color, small-format Heidelberg press and a Xerox iGen 150 digital press.
Imagine! Print Solutions of Minneapolis, has strengthened its holdings with the acquisition of two Charlotte, NC-based providers of print and marketing solutions, including renown firm Classic Graphics. All combined, Imagine! Print Solutions will approach $300 million in annual sales.
MINNEAPOLIS—Imagine! Print Solutions has struck a deal for another Charlotte, NC, firm. Two weeks after announcing it had netted Classic Graphics, Imagine! has obtained Creative Marketing Solutions, which posted $20 million in revenues, according to the Minneapolis Business Journal.
Imagine! Print Solutions has acquired another North Carolina-based printing company in its second such deal this month. The most recent deal was for Charlotte-based Creative Marketing Solutions, which has about 33 employees and $20 million in revenues.
On Dec. 2, Imagine acquired a $70 million revenue firm called Classic Graphics, also based in Charlotte. The combined revenue of the three companies will approach $300 million, making it one of the largest printing companies in the country, according to a press release.
CHARLOTTE, NC—Imagine! Print Solutions of Minneapolis and Classic Graphics, based here, have merged, creating a commercial printing business approaching $280 million in annual sales. Terms of the deal were not released, but the firms will maintain their individual identities.
Two of the largest graphics solutions companies have joined forces. Imagine Print Solutions and Classic Graphics merged, creating one of the largest privately owned commercial printing companies in the nation.
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