Mergers and acquisitions

Creative Print Group has been bought in a pre-pack deal by a new company set up by John Price Printers after it fell into administration last month.

KBA has acquired Italian flexo press manufacturer Flexotecnica for a "high single-digit million euro" sum in a bid to expand its portfolio in the growing print market for flexible packaging.

Xerox has bought industrial inkjet manufacturer Impika after being a reseller of the French company's products since 2011.

As part of the integration and rebranding of its two screen-print and large-format graphics operations, SSDM and Fenn Graphics, Aura Graphics has deployed a group-wide 40-seat Shuttleworth MIS.

Denver-based EPS-Doublet has acquired nearby Think Big Solutions as it looks to grow its digital printing and marketing services operations.

UK Packaging film manufacturer Innovia Films has bought out its joint venture partner in Securency, after it failed to secure a "suitable offer" for the secure substrate business from external buyers.

MRM Associates has been dissolved, leaving unsecured creditors with no prospect of recovering 150,000 debts, according to the liquidator.

Entrepreneur Martin Reed bought White Horse Press Newbury in December 2012 after parent company Synergie group entered a Company Voluntary Arrangement on 17 August.

Morgana Systems has been bought by Swedish firm Plockmatic International.

Printers should not be threatened by spending reviews undertaken by their clients but use them to examine their own strategies, a print industry procurement specialist has said.