Mergers and acquisitions

Heritage Envelopes will now employ 130 staff

Heritage to absorb Eagle in envelopes deal

Heritage Envelopes is set to merge with Eagle Envelopes to enable the two Mayer-Kuvert-network owned companies to better serve their customers.

Shares in RRD were up by nearly 40% in premarket trading

RRD receives revised takeover proposal from largest investor

RR Donnelley & Sons (RRD) has received a revised proposal from its largest investor to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the business that it doesn’t already own.

L-R: Edit managing director Jeremy Fisher, Dixon, Edit managing director Rob McGowan, finance director Stuart Fenlon.

Dixon returns with Edit buy

Nick Dixon is back in the business after acquiring the Edit agency from Kin + Carta in a £13.35m deal.

Fluence Automation offers a wide portfolio of products

BlueCrest acquires Fluence Automation

Equipment manufacturer and supplier BlueCrest has acquired Fluence Automation to accelerate its growth in the e-commerce fulfilment and parcel sortation markets.

Bobst Italia is the manufacturer's worldwide centre of excellence

Bobst acquires Cerutti

Bobst Italia has acquired Italian gravure press manufacturer Cerutti.

Stokes: ETrak offers clients delivery reliability at cost effective prices

The Delivery Group acquires ETrak

E-commerce and specialist mail services firm The Delivery Group has acquired 100% of ETrak Logistics, its prior joint venture with Parcel Monkey, to drive its international growth plans.

The Beetham mill employs around 140 staff. Image: Google Maps

BillerudKorsnäs divests Cumbrian mill

Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer BillerudKorsnäs has divested its Beetham mill in Cumbria after signing an agreement for the site with London-based investment firm Inspirit Capital.

Betts and Hall will continue to head the business

Whistl buys Relish business

Whistl has acquired sampling specialist Relish from Kin + Carta as the business, formerly St Ives, wraps up its divesture of non-core operations to become a pure-play DX (digital transformation)...

Daily Mail: newsprint is the second largest cost item

DMGT: newsprint increases at levels 'not seen since 1996'

The owner of the Daily Mail is likely to implement redundancies – rather than put up the price of its newspapers again – as it looks to cut costs as it battles the biggest increase in newsprint costs...

Portals produces high-security, non-currency paper on cylinder mould machines

Portals completes Fedrigoni security buy

Portals has completed the acquisition of Fedrigoni’s specialist Security business.