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M&A deals over the past 12 months

Target	Purchaser	Vendor	Sector	Month	Deal type
Kendall Press	MTS Press	Receiver	Stationery	Nov-10	Acquisition
Reeds Printers	H&H Group	Owner	Commercial printing	Nov-10	Acquisition
Fotobook	Albumprinter	Owner	Photobooks	Dec-10	Acquisition
Nampak Cartons	Platinum Equity	Nampak	Packaging	Dec-10	Acquisition
Nampak Healthcare	Platinum Equity	Nampak	Packaging	Dec-10	Acquisition
Mailcom (certain assets)	Opus Trust Marketing	Receiver	Direct mail	Dec-10	Acquisition
Paton Brown	MBO team	Receiver	Printing and mailing	Jan-11	MBO
Transactis (document services operation, formerly CDMS)	RR Donnelley	Shop Direct	Printing and mailing	Jan-11	Acquisition
Granite Colour (assets)	Park Communications	Receiver	Commercial printing	Jan-11	Acquisition
Mooreforms	Integrity Print (holding company)	Owner	Business forms	Feb-11	Acquisition
Tactical Solutions UK	St Ives	Owner	Field marketing	Feb-11	Acquisition
Skanem UK (retail food labelling operations)	Paragon Print&Packaging	Skanem UK	Label printing	Feb-11	Acquisition
4DM (10% stake)	Eclipse Colour	Owner	Direct mail	Feb-11	Merger
DW Jones (Printers)	DWJ Colourprint	Receiver	Commercial printing	Mar-11	Acquisition
Cavalier Mailing Services	MBO team	Blakes Holidays	Mailing	Mar-11	MBO
Gilmour&Dean	Industria Grafica Eurostampa	Owner	Label printing	Mar-11	Acquisition
NGS Print Finishers	NGS Finishing Solutions	Receiver	Print finishing	Mar-11	Acquisition
FMG (controlling stake)	India Value Fund Advisors	Owner	Pre-media	Mar-11	Acquisition
St Ives Web	Walstead Investments	St Ives	Web offset printing	Apr-11	Acquisition
Alito Color Group	Argall Solutions	Receiver	Commercial printing	Apr-11	Acquisition
Icon Display	Chime Communications	Maidstone Road Holdings	Signage and displays	Apr-11	Acquisition
Printing.com (Carlisle branch)	AstSigns	Printing.com	Quickprint	Apr-11	Acquisition
Character DPM Group	Magnadata International	Receiver	Printing and direct mail	Apr-11	Acquisition
Polestar UK Print	Sun European Partners	Owner	Commercial printing	Apr-11	Acquisition
Dudley Print	Husselworks	Owner	Commercial printing	Apr-11	Merger
James Townsend&Sons	Webtech NI	Owner	Label printing	Apr-11	Acquisition
JM Roberts Print	Boss Direct	Owner	Printing and stationery	Apr-11	Acquisition
The Ethedo Press (certain assets)	Ethedo Digital	Receiver	Printing and design	Apr-11	Acquisition
Richard Edward	Cartamundi	Owner	Playing cards	May-11	Acquisition
Britton Flexibles	Sun European Partners	Direct Principal Investments (HSBC) and management	Flexible packaging	Jun-11	Acquisition
Asset Graphics	Loveurope Group	Owner	Typesetting/pre-media	Jun-11	Acquisition
Orchestra Bristol (trade and assets)	Communisis	Receiver	Data/transactional mail	Jun-11	Acquisition
WF Aldridge&Co	The Blue Printing Company	Receiver	Colour/commercial printers	Jun-11	Acquisition
DS Smith Sacks	MBO team	DS Smith	Paper sacks	Jun-11	MBO
Moonpig.com	Photobox	Owner	Greetings cards	Jul-11	Acquisition
Orchestra Wotton (assets)	DCL Print	Receiver	Security printing	Jul-11	Acquisition
CLE Print	Mimeo.com	Owner	Commercial and digital print	Jul-11	Acquisition
Pindar Web Offset Scarborough	York Mailing	Receiver	Web offset printing/binding	Jul-11	Acquisition
FS Moore	DG3 Europe	Receiver	Commercial printing	Jul-11	Acquisition
Tag Worldwide	Williams Lea	Owner	Cross-media services	Jul-11	Acquisition
Loewy Group	Writtle Holdings	Owner	Design/branding	Jul-11	Acquisition
Albany Sign&Display	H&H Reeds Printers	Owner	Wide-format/signs	Jul-11	Acquisition
Good News Digital Books	Berforts	Owner	Digital book printing	Jul-11	Acquisition
Vertex Warrington (production assets)	MBA Group	Vertex	Transactional/direct mail print	Jul-11	Acquisition
Pindar Cartography (assets)	Halstan Holdings	Receiver	Cartography/multimedia	Jul-11	Acquisition
Lateral Group	IOS (Innovative Output Solutions)	Owner	Cross-media services	Aug-11	Acquisition
Pearson Print	RAP Spiderweb	Receiver	Printing	Aug-11	Acquisition
Pindar Agility	MBO team	Receiver	Multichannel software	Aug-11	MBO
Rivers (Midlands)	Reflex Labels Mansfield	Receiver	Label printing	Aug-11	Acquisition
Premier Contract Packers (assets)	Codex Solutions	Owner	Cosmetic/toiletry packaging	Aug-11	Acquisition
Bezier	MBO team/HIG Europe	MidOcean Partners/Owners	Point-of-purchase	Aug-11	MBO
AGI World	Shorewood Packaging	Owner	Packaging	Aug-11	Merger
Little Black Book	Adstream	Owner	Creative resources	Sep-11	Acquisition
Pindar Confidential Print	Secure&Confidential Documents	Receiver	Confidential/secure print	Sep-11	Acquisition
Spicers	Unipapel	DS Smith	Office products	Sep-11	Acquisition
Response One Holdings	St Ives	Owner	Data marketing	Sep-11	Acquisition
Pragma Holdings	St Ives	Owner	Consultancy and market insight	Sep-11	Acquisition
Higher Kings Mill	Asia File Corporation	DS Smith	Filing and educational papers	Sep-11	Acquisition
St8us	F1 Colour	Owner	Cross-media services	Sep-11	Merger
Pixel Colour Imaging	Danilo Promotions	Owner	Commercial printing	Oct-11	Acquisition
FST Technologies (business and assets)	CFH Total Document Management	Receivers	Document management	Oct-11	Acquisition
Albumprinter	Vistaprint	Owner	Photobooks	Nov-11	Acquisition