Mergers and acquisitions

CFH Docmail acquires BSS Scotmail business

CFH Docmail has acquired the assets of the Glasgow site of BSS Scotland, also trading as BSS Scotmail, for an undisclosed sum.

St Clements Press sold with FT to Japanese company

The Financial Times-owned printer St Clements Press has been sold alongside the newspaper, the FT has confirmed.

‘Identify where you are making money’

Normally a company boss cuts their teeth heading up a small business, graduating to bigger and bigger firms as they gain more experience before, perhaps one day, working for a multi-site,...

Barry-Wehmiller to acquire Bielomatik’s paper processing group

BW Papersystems, the paper and board sheeting and converting arm of US-headquartered equipment manufacturer Barry-Wehmiller, is set to acquire German manufacturer Bielomatik’s paper processing group...

‘I only want to be in a business that’s about growth’

Quite how a £42.5m business with around 350 staff can be a well-kept secret might not be immediately clear, but that’s exactly how Anton chief executive Malcolm Lane-Ley describes the Essex-based...

Thirlby joins Pureprint to accelerate growth

Anthony Thirlby has joined Pureprint Group as chief operating officer, a newly created role, as part of the £60m business’s growth strategy.

EFI acquires Reggiani Macchine and Matan

EFI has acquired Reggiani Macchine and Matan as it strides into the exploding textile market and extends its share of the superwide-format display graphics markets, in deals worth $188.4m (£120.6m).

PhotoBox Group to revise flotation plans

Moonpig.com owner PhotoBox Group may revise plans to float on the stock market after private equity firms expressed an interest in buying the business.

Acquisitive printer expands litho and finishing capacity

A Welsh printer is to install its third Heidelberg Speedmaster XL and the UK's first Promatrix 106CS die-cutter after taking on staff, a building and work of a company which went into...

JR Print buys bulk of rival business

Commercial printer JR Print has acquired the assets, equipment and assignment of lease of fellow Horsham, West Sussex-based business Kool Kat, an ex-Kall Kwik franchisee, for an undisclosed sum.