Mergers and acquisitions

Heidelberg has said its purchase of Belgian consumables business BluePrint Products earlier this month is just the start of a "more ambitious phase" of acquisition-led expansion.

Capita has acquired Birmingham-based Complete Imaging and integrated it into the managed print services arm of its Document & Information Services business.

Potts Print (UK) has hit the M&A trail for the second time this year and added wide-format to its in-house product offering with a deal for a local print firm, part of an investment strategy fuelled...

RPC, the UK-based plastic packaging supplier, has announced the €386m (£306m) acquisition of Iceland-based Promens Group.

Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS) has bought Scotland-headquartered gifting packaging specialist Presentation Products Group (PPG).

Thames Group has bought Advent Digital Imaging and DMA Print, which both trade as Advent Print Group.

Mark Kerridge has stepped down as managing director of Benson Group, the £120m turnover packaging printer that was acquired by Graphic Packaging International earlier this year for £100m.

Millnet Document Solutions, the joint venture between Yolanda Noble and document management specialist Millnet, has been placed into administration after a key client significantly reduced its work...

Precision Printing has acquired a controlling stake in North East-based trade printer First2Print and launched a digital wallcovering joint venture as it looks to expand into wide-format and trade...

Manroland Sheetfed-owner Langley Holdings is set to acquire the German print chemicals group DruckChemie out of administration.