Mark Hahn

Mark Hahn

Mark Hahn is a managing director and founder of Graphic Arts Advisors, a boutique strategic financial advisory and consulting firm focused exclusively on the printing, packaging, mailing, marketing services, brand management, and related graphic communications industries. With more than 35 years of graphic communications experience in the areas of finance, operations, sales, M&A, and general management, Hahn has served as chief financial officer, chief operating officer and other senior positions with several commercial printing companies, as well as founding and eventually selling his own printing company.

The firm assists company owners and management, as well as their lenders, investors and shareholders in the following areas: mergers and acquisitions, sale of business, strategic and financial advisory, capital structure and funding, financial analysis, interim and turnaround C-level management, business valuations and serving as consulting experts. Hahn is the author of The Target Report and is regularly published and quoted in printing industry trade and management journals.

Mark Hahn can be reached at (973) 588-7399 or mark@graphicartsadvisors.com

September 14, 2022 Target Report: Annual Review of Printing and Packaging Industry M&A Activity

This Target Report looks back at the past 12 months to identify long-term M&A trends in the printing and packaging industry.

August 10, 2022 Target Report: After Unloading Custom Label Business, Cenveo Returns to Its Roots

In what appears to be a positive end to a long road, the management team of Cenveo has completed a management buyout of the company.

July 19, 2022 Target Report: Stronger Players Continue To Move Upstream From Pure Print Providers

Though too soon to tell if M&A will return to pre-pandemic levels, recent transactions suggest some trends that are likely to conti

June 9, 2022 The Target Report: Paper Industry in Transition as Printers Face Shortages

Many printing and packaging companies are struggling to procure the paper they need, the grades they require, in a quantity necessary.

May 11, 2022 The Target Report: When Does Customer Concentration Become an Advantage?

Many printing companies rely on one customer that becomes the majority source of revenue. Is customer concentration an advantage?

April 11, 2022 Target Report: PE-Backed Label Roll-Ups Are Red Hot — Are Folding Carton Companies Next?

M&A in the label and flexible packaging printing and converting segments has been on fire, with several PE-backed roll-ups competin

March 10, 2022 The Target Report: Printing Papers Get Squeezed Out

Supply and demand curves crossed, and paper mills are in charge. Yet, one trend is unlikely to reverse despite current economic issues.

February 9, 2022 The Target Report: CCL Industries Breaks the Rules by Acquiring Niche Players

Unlike most large company acquisitions, CCL Industries finds niche players in small corners of the market that add strong valuation.

January 18, 2022 The Target Report: As Some Printing Consolidators Grow Up, A New Crop Springs Up

As consolidators grow, merge, or exit the field for the acquisition of middle market companies, smaller consolidators take their place.

December 13, 2021 The Target Report: M&A Slugfest Breaks Out Over RR Donnelley

You’ve heard print is dead. Why then did two private equity firms, both invested in print and paper, bid up the share price of RRD?

November 16, 2021 The Target Report: October 2021 M&A Activity, a Look Back at the Dotcom Era

After the great dotcom boom and bust of the 2000s, some printing companies have restructured in order to recover.

October 14, 2021 The Target Report: Private Equity Fuels Consolidation of Label Industry

It’s a feeding frenzy in the prime label printing and converting business. Fueled by multiple private equity-backed roll-up platforms.

September 14, 2021 The Target Report Annual Review: August 2021 TTM M&A Activity

The annual review reviews, categorizes, sorts, counts, and charts data comparing the trailing twelve months ended this August.

August 10, 2021 The Target Report: Packaging Industry Consolidation in Every Direction

There has been no pause, not even a brief breather, in the steam roller-like consolidation of the packaging-related printing businesses. The driving imperative is to consolidate production both horizontally to build out a global network to service global brands, as well as vertically to link supply chains to ensure material availability.

June 8, 2021 The Target Report: On-Demand Everything

The future of print will increasingly be individually customized with the images we want applied to whatever products we choose.

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