Business Management - M&A

Throughout drupa 2016, digital and conventional press suppliers demonstrated how by working together, they can provide the best solutions for their customers' needs.

Flint Group has announced its acquisition of American Inks and Coatings, based in Pine Bluff, Ark. The acquisition helps to position Flint Group in both the paper and board and flexible packaging segments.

BLUE Software has acquired Kodak's Design2Launch software and services business, a provider of brand graphics management technology.

Smyth Companies has announced that as of May 2, it has acquired Flexible Container Systems, which specializes in tube labeling services for the personal care and health and beauty markets.

Infinite Packaging Group has acquired Hyde Park Label, based in Round Rock, Texas. Randy and Geri Wise, Hyde Park Label's former co-owners were recently named packagePRINTING's TLMI Converters of the Year.

It has been reported that last year's M&A boom may be running out of steam. While there's not much evidence of that happening in printing and packaging, any sustained business upsurge may level off eventually.

With drupa 2016 just a few months away, naturally the industry is thinking about the new capital investment opportunities that a show of this scope and size presents.

Who would have thought that we’d ever be talking about negative interest rates? Now we have to, because in many places, they’ve become a fact of life.

Smyth Companies has acquired Pure Pack Technologies, a flexible packaging material converter based in Phoenix. Pure Pack Technologies' core products include unsupported and multi-layer film structures, pouches, shrink and popcorn bags.

Everyone likes a bargain. There was a time when the printing industry’s M&A marketplace was full of them — for all the wrong reasons.