Sticky Discipline for the Label Business – May 2016 M&A Activity

Weyerhauser announced the sale of its pulp business to International Paper. The purchase brings 1,900 employees into International Paper, working at five pulp mills and two converting facilities that produce fluff pulp for use in absorptive products and textiles.

Directories

Dex Media, the successor to a long line of phone directory publishing and printing companies, failed to meet the goals set forth as it emerged from its second bankruptcy filing in 2013 ((see The Target Report – August 2012 and The Target Report – March 2013). The company and its many related entities that are the remnants from the 2013 merger between Dex One Corp (aka RH Donnelley) and SuperMedia (aka Idearc Media, né Verizon Directories) filed for Chapter 11 for the third time on May 16th. In the turnaround profession, they call that a “Chapter 33” – need we say more about the prospects for directory-based print-centric businesses that compete in the face of Google and other online search options?