Business Management - M&A

Leading global provider of Auto-ID solutions SATO has acquired a 100% share of UK-based inline digital printing (IDP) firm DataLase.

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.

The following four Printing Impressions 400 printing companies reported outstanding revenue growth, earning fast-track distinction.

My personal involvement with M&As began when I was the president and CEO of a family business that originated as a newspaper publishing company in 1906. During my tenure, we sold our non-heatset web division and after that our sheetfed operation. Later, as president and CEO of the Printing and Imaging Association of Georgia, I worked with a number of our members who were considering M&A transactions of their own. This experience taught me two things...

Cimpress will acquire 100% of the outstanding equity interests of National Pen for a purchase price of approximately $218 Million.

In the now famous line from “The Graduate,” a well-meaning elder, in a solemn tone, advised Benjamin, “Just One Word: Plastics.”

Private equity firm ICV Partners has made an investment in printing and multichannel direct marketing solutions provider SG360°.

The Marek Group of Waukesha, Wis., has acquired Wauwatosa, Wis.-based Wunderlich, Pearson & Tetzlaff Inc., a full-service marketing and merchandising agency specializing in the industrial technology and food and beverage industries. The Marek Group’s CEO Fuzzy Marek says the acquisition is in alignment with the company’s continued focus on product and service expansion.

Angstrom Graphics has acquired the assets of New Channel Direct, a mail solutions provider that has been in business since 1952.

Brooklyn Heights, Ohio-based global marketing solutions provider Proforma Signature Solutions has announced a merger with Creative Image Advertising, a Crowley, Texas-based promotional products distributor specializing in awards and incentives. Proforma Signature Solutions will service Creative Image Advertising clients from its Arlington, Texas, location.