Is our Forecast for the Printing & Related Industries on Target? – December 2013 M&A Activity

Do the transactions in the printing and related industries during the past year provide a view into what we can expect in 2014? We went back through our deal logs from 2013, analyzed the transactions and identified several trends that I believe are likely to continue and/or accelerate over the next year. Predicting the future is always a risky endeavor, however using the data from the past year gives me confidence that these trends will show up in The Target Report in 2014: