Mergers and acquisitions

Leicester-based Mercury Packaging and Nottinghamshire-based CPS Flexible, who merged earlier this year to create a £16m-turnover business, have rebranded to become Fusion Flexibles.

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Visitor management and health & safety solutions specialist SG World has gained a commercial print foothold in the UK with the acquisition of Crewe-based The Printing House (TPH).

HH Global has acquired PostNL Print Management (PPM), the print management arm of the Dutch postal and logistics service.

Blake Envelopes has opened its fourth 'hub of excellence', on the site of London’s newly opened Postal Museum, and announced a new partnership with the institution.

Agfa Graphics has acquired Watford-based software developer and reseller Bodoni Systems.

Isle of Man-based printer Bridson & Horrox has installed new Agfa Apogee Cloud software across all of its sites, having acquired two companies in Lancashire over the past year.

Mail Boxes Etc (MBE) has acquired AlphaGraphics, the US-headquartered print franchise chain that was formerly owned by Pindar.

EFI has made further inroads into the corrugated packaging market by acquiring corrugated packaging software developer Escada Systems.

The Gelpack group of companies has been bought out of administration by environmental utility group Visionscape.