Business Management - M&A
Peter Schaefer, a Partner at New Direction Partners, highlights the results of New Direction Partners' Printing and Packaging Stock Index for the First Quarter of 2015.
Peter Schaefer, a Partner at New Direction Partners, discusses the results of NDP's EBITDA Trend Chart for the first quarter of 2015.
Mac Papers has completed its acquisition of Packaging Professionals, reinforcing its commitment to the greater Nashville market.
If you are in the market to acquire, chances are excellent right now that the type of company you want exists and is in play. Even with the maturing and consolidation of the industry, the base remains remarkably diversified in terms of process, product and sales volume. As we and our other New Direction Partners colleagues have been reporting recently, M&A activity around these companies is finally back to its pre-recession level—a strong signal to buyers that the time to act is now.
Nobody likes interruptions to their best-laid plans, but they happen—and M&A deal making isn’t exempt from them. When something happens to impede the sale of a company, it’s natural to want to proceed with caution until the obstacle is safely out of the way. Sometimes, that’s the correct strategy. In other cases, it can be a mistake.
The U.S. Spicers Paper division of Central National-Gottesman will bolster its West Coast sales force by acquiring Performance Paper.
It’s said that in business, timing is everything. In an acquisition, it’s many things: some of them controllable, others not necessarily up to the principals. Make the deal clock keep the right time for you by being clear about your objectives and reasonable about your expectations.
Fontis Solutions has been acquired by Dallas-based franchisor Safeguard Business Systems, a Deluxe Corp. company.
Well, as the M&A environment continues to evolve, companies are now hammering out strategic alliances that may or may not involve…
DOME and American Web have entered into a formal agreement in which DOME will acquire intellectual and physical assets.