M&A Activity -- Expect a Surge in Mergers

Printing will be an exciting place to be for the next several years. It will create soaring wealth and enormous satisfaction for some, but debilitating despair for others.

More Mega-Deals

The next few years will feature more deals among the top 50 largest printing companies. These mega-deals have already begun with the Moore Corp. purchase of Wallace; the subsequent announced deal for RR Donnelley to buy the new Moore-Wallace; and Von Hoffmann's purchase of The Lehigh Press. In these three deals more than $3.7 billion in print sales changed hands—more sales than changed hands, for example, than during the entire year in 1997.