Mergers and acquisitions

St Ives has made its biggest marketing services buy yet, and will pay up to £50m for healthcare communications specialist Hive Group.

UK-based substrate manufacturer Innovia Group, which produces polymer banknotes material and packaging films, has been acquired by private equity group Arle Capital in a €498 million deal.

Commercial printer In2Print has sold a majority stake in its business to £40m-turnover facilities, IT and print management specialist Commercial Group, with the latter hinting that more print...

Communisis has hit the M&A trail again and bolstered its creative services offering with two acquisitions.

Collapsed commercial print and direct mail business Print Logic has been bought out of administration in a deal that signals the return of a leading figure in the direct mail and transactional print...

EFI has announced the acquisition of print and packaging software developer Group Rhapso, as it posted double-digit jumps in sales and profitability in its first quarter results.

Ormside Press has been sold by its joint administrators Cameron Gunn, Simon Harris and Mark Supperstone of Resolve Partners, to Sheffield-based Intoprint, an unrelated B3 litho, digital and...

Flint Group has been sold by its private equity owner, CVC Capital Partners, to a joint venture between Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division (GSMBD) and Koch Equity Development (a subsidiary of...

HPM Group and Addo Printing have merged, creating a print & design company that is expecting to hit sales of £5m this year.

Former Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) director Mark Lockley, who bought Leicester-based Streamline Press last year, is eyeing further growth after completing the acquisition of local rival, John Baxter...