Business Management - M&A

Goss International has announced that its parent company, Shanghai Electric, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Goss International and its subsidiaries to American Industrial Partners.

M&A trends in the printing and packaging industries during the first quarter of 2015 reconfirm what we already knew: that M&A activity has picked up in every year since 2009, and that there’s every reason to believe the forward momentum will stay strong.

Learn why now is the perfect time to sell a printing or packaging company, especially considering factors from the past 12 months.

Preparing your company for sale can be a complex task, but everything you do will aim at the same objective: increasing value to make what you have as attractive as possible to potential buyers.

Having worked together to build and establish a solid relationship over the last 10 years, GFI Innovations and FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division announced a continuation of their preferred dealer agreement.

Fortis Solutions Group has acquired Kopco Graphics and Color Craft Label. Kopco Graphics produces pressure sensitive labels, flexible packaging, instant redeemable coupons and promotional labels. Color Craft Label is a provider of customized pressure sensitive labels.

Cycles in print markets and in the economy as a whole can play heavily in sellers’ and buyers’ decisions to move forward with M&A transactions. That may just be a case of stating the obvious, but it’s still helpful to review why these cycles occur and what they imply for dealmaking strategies.

Brother Industries has announced it has formally completed the acquisition of Domino Printing Sciences plc, having met all the conditions of the offer announced on March 11, 2015.

“Adding the Packaging Professionals team to our Nashville operation shows that Mac Papers is just as committed to growing our presence in Nashville as it is to reinforcing our expertise in packaging,” said Chief Executive Sutton McGehee.

Like Menasha Packaging, Portable Packaging designs promotional packaging and displays for retailers and consumer packaged goods companies, and provides material sourcing, assembly, repacking, fulfillment and distribution services.