NEW CANAAN, CT

Roy Grossman, founding partner of MSP Digital Marketing, announced today that Dante Mazzocco has joined the company as executive vice president of business development. MSP Digital is a privately held marketing communications and digital services provider. MSP is currently building a national network of companies with a focus on sophisticated variable data print capabilities, specialty direct mail, digital packaging & labels, and large format applications.

THE ECONOMY is acting as a clog in the plumbing of printing industry M&A. The system is feeling more and more pressure from companies prolonging their desire to sell a business that perhaps needs an infusion of new blood or new equipment. Then there is the buyer...his hands locked by tight credit markets or unrealistic seller expectations.

NEW CANAAN, CT—Just when you thought it wasn’t safe to come out in the printing investment world, along comes a pair of industry veterans with a bankroll and a plan.

NEW CANAAN, CT—Former Sandy Alexander executives Roy Grossman and Chip Stine announced they have formed MSP LLC, as a vehicle for making investments in printing-related companies with revenues in excess of $5 million.

NEW CANAAN, CT—October 10, 2008—Roy Grossman and Charles (Chip) Stine announced today that they have formed MSP, LLC as a vehicle for making investments in printing-related companies with revenues in excess of $5 million. Target segments include digital printing companies with sophisticated VDP capabilities; specialty direct mail, packaging & label companies; and large format printers. MSP, LLC has engaged Paul V. Reilly of Compass Capital Partners of CO, LLC, to assist in evaluating investment opportunities and to raise additional investment funds.