Mergers & Acquisitions

Pfingsten Partners and Brian Dunsirn announced the acquisition of Oliver Printing, in Twinsburg, Ohio.

CCL Industries has proven to be an adept and disciplined serial acquirer of relatively small transactions.

Premier Press has completed the acquisition of Ad-Mail, a direct mail service provider, also based in Portland, Ore.

Watch as New Direction Partners' Peter Schaefer and Jim Russell discuss the most notable M&A transactions thus far in 2016 as well as what they believe to be happening at Cenveo.

Kappa Media Group, the publishing arm of centa-millionaire Nicholas Karabot's Pennsylvania-based business empire, has doubled down on its investments in the printing industry with the acquisition of Vanguard Printing in Ithaca, N.Y. There were several smaller deals announced in the commercial printing segment, as waning demand for generalized printing services continues to drive consolidation. Of special note, however, privately-held Taylor Corp. announced the acquisition of Staples Print Solutions.

Peter Schaefer, a Partner at New Direction Partners, details the latest results from New Direction Partners' Printing and Packaging Stock Index.

Peter Schaefer, a partner at New Direction Partners, discusses the first quarter 2016 results of NDP's EBITDA Trend Chart, a chart that tracks the EBITDA multiples of the top eight publicly traded printing companies and the top seven packaging firms.

Peter Schaefer, a partner at New Direction Partners, reports on the merger and acquisition transaction trends for the first quarter of 2016.

In its second acquisition this year, Blue Software has bought Eastman Kodak’s Design2Launch software and services business.

Taylor Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of Staples Print Solutions, a division of Staples Inc.