Business Management - M&A

Premier Marketing Group, a division of Massachusetts-based Grossman Marketing Group, has acquired Suncoast Print Solutions.

“We love shaking up the conventional wisdom about newspapers and print,” acquirer View Newspaper Group publisher Wes Smith said.

The good news is that the acquisition closed and the puzzle pieces are starting to come together. But the hard part has just begun.

Central National Gottesman Inc. has acquired Premiere Packaging Industries, a full-line packaging supply distributor.

CJK Group will make Thomson-Shore’s Dexter, Mich., production facility a warehouse and offered jobs to roughly formerly 100 workers.

Peter Schaefer, of New Direction Partners, discusses the current landscape for printing and packaging industry M&A transactions.

It remains to be seen if Cenveo has finally found a defensible strategic position within the larger printing industry.

Where print business owners can make the timing work to their advantage is in the transfer of the business to a new owner.

The partnership offers current Payne customers expanded services previously unavailable to them.

A printing-industry expert believes the federal officials who questioned him were “pretty open-minded” about the deal.