Business Management - M&A

Over the next few months, FASTSIGNS will open new centers in downtown Mineola/Westbury on Long Island and in White Plains, New York.

Peter Schaefer, of New Direction Partners, on the types of commercial printing and packaging businesses in high demand among buyers.

On this episode of The Week that Was, Cenveo announced the sale of its long run label and receipt paper assets to Iconex LLC; R.R. Donnelley and Quad reported financial results for the first quarter of 2019; American Litho is bringing an HP PageWide Web Press T240 HD on board; and Kirkwood Direct is bringing on a Ricoh Pro VC60000 featuring expanded gamut inks.

Based in Bursa, Turkey, BDR is a leading manufacturer of reactive inkjet inks for industrial digital textile printing.

Promic will broaden its product offering while introducing print services for added value and convenience to its wholesale customers.

Cenveo has sold its long-run labels and receipt paper assets to Iconex LLC. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

In this episode of "The Week That Was" Mark Michelson highlights a recent video with Peter Schaefer of New Direction Partners; Postal Center International in South Florida consolidates into a new, 225,000-sq.-ft. printing plant; Allied Litho in Kansas City is ordering a specially designed 41˝ Rapida 106 UV press with double coaters; Mike Anderman, owner of Proforma123, secures a $1 million contract; and Barb Pellow shares an insightful blog about the resurgence of QR codes.

Peter Schaefer and Mark Michelson predict how the Department of Justice, Antitrust Div., will rule on the acquisition of LSC by Quad.

In this episode of The Week that Was, EFI entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired for $1.7 billion; the PRC issued a compliance assessing the USPS in FY18; and Bill Farquharson has some advice about badmouthing the competition.

The injection of capital from Siris should allow EFI to execute more rapidly on key strategic initiatives.