Paul Reilly
Paul Reilly, partner at New Direction Partners, has been in the industry for over 30 years and for the last eight years has been providing investment banking and financial advisory services for privately held and family-owned businesses. He brings supplier experience as a senior executive at Polychrome, now part of Kodak, a worldwide supplier of printing and packaging supplies. He also brings extensive acquisition experience as CEO of Cenveo, one of the industry most active acquirers.
While guidance is valuable in the arrangement of M&As, some owners have navigated it solo — and proven successful. Here’s one example.
Any slowdown in the pace of M&As among printing and packaging firms is only temporary. The industry is recovering.
NDP is confident 2019 can be favorable for buyers and sellers of printing companies, here’s what to do in case it isn’t.
Part of a sound plan for launching a printing business is thinking ahead to the future leadership succession plan.
Congratulations — having carefully planned and executed the acquisition of a printing company to complement the one you already own, you’re finally prepared to sit down with the seller to close the deal. Naturally, you’re feeling good about what you’ve accomplished and what the future holds for the merged entity that your effort has created. This is the point at which we always urge our buying clients to pause.
In our recent webinar, we were happy to report that the pace of dealmaking in the industry remains strong.
If you’ve been clocking mergers and acquisitions in the printing industry this year, you’ve had plenty to keep you busy. The fast pace of transactions in 2016 tells us that the market is sound and that many looking for opportunities to buy or sell have had little difficulty in locating them.
Who would have thought that we'd ever be talking about negative interest rates? Now we have to, because in many places, they’ve become a fact of life. While the likelihood of negative rates in the U.S. seems small, the Federal Reserve has said it doesn’t rule out using them for emergency stimulus in an economic crisis.
Let’s review some headline-making deals to see what they tell us about valuation trends and growth strategies.
2015 was the best year of the century for mergers and acquisitions among printing and packaging companies.










