Mergers and acquisitions

KJB Print UK has launched a new wide-format division, Creative Digital Printing Solutions (CDPS), after purchasing the assets and trading name of Creative Digital Printing, which went into...

Last Bros is to merge its two subsidiaries, Last Bros (Tabs Direct) and Last Bros (Labels), to form one company, along with initiating a £350,000 kit investment.

Blake Envelopes has moved into UK manufacturing with the purchase of the plant, machinery and order book of Shrewsbury-based Rapid Envelopes, which recently went into administration.

US-headquartered global label giant Multi-Color Corporation has acquired Constantia Flexibles’ Label division in a €1.15bn (£1bn) deal that gives it a UK footprint nudging £100m.

Mercury Packaging almost had the lot: printing, conversion, lamination, success. But almost is not enough in a sector as fast moving and technology-driven as print and packaging, says managing...

Grafenia has made a further acquisition with the purchase of Manchester-based wide-format printer Image Everything for £3m, its second and largest buy since it revealed its intention last summer to...

Elle Media Group has bought the goodwill of MPC Print Solutions, following the £7.5m-turnover business closing its doors last month as the result of a combination of a six-figure bad debt and an...

Finnish paper manufacturing group Stora Enso has signed an agreement to divest the business and assets of its Swedish subsidiary Stora Enso Re-board to Culas, for an undisclosed sum.

Apogee Corporation has hit the M&A trail again with the acquisition of Cambridgshire-based Canon equipment reseller Clarke Office Solutions.

Rapidly expanding Bradley Group has made its second acquisition in six months, with a deal for Northern Irish commercial printer Nicholson Bass.