Mergers and acquisitions
Multi-Color in £1bn deal for Constantia Flexibles’ label arm
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.
Better together: there’s strength in numbers
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 ups its Image with largest acquisition to date
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 takes on MPC assets
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...
Stora Enso sells Swedish subsidiary Re-board
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 acquires again
Apogee Corporation has hit the M&A trail again with the acquisition of Cambridgshire-based Canon equipment reseller Clarke Office Solutions.
Bradley Group returns to M&A trail
Rapidly expanding Bradley Group has made its second acquisition in six months, with a deal for Northern Irish commercial printer Nicholson Bass.
DS Smith announces $920m US acquisition alongside record results
DS Smith is set to make its first entry into the US fibre-based corrugated packaging market after announcing that it has agreed to buy 80% of US packaging firm Interstate Resources from Merpas for...
New Heidelberg CEO sets out ambitious growth plan
Heidelberg's new chief executive Rainer Hundsdörfer has outlined a five-year plan that would see Heidelberg return to being the "high-growth and profitable lighthouse of the industry".
Heidelberg moves further into the Industry 4.0 space
Heidelberg has taken the next step of its digital strategy by acquiring Germany-based software developer Docufy.