Looking Back at M&A Activity in Printing, Packaging
If you missed Mark Hahn’s Target Report for May 2023, you might want to visit Packaging Impressions' sister publication Printing Impressions to gain a better understanding of the mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring in the printing, packaging, and related industries.
Hahn's report not only explores the significance of Vice Media Group's recent bankruptcy filing for printers but also includes helpful charts detailing M&A activity, such as the acquisition of La Fiesta Label & Packaging Systems, a flexible packaging and label converter in Chandler, Arizona, by DRG Technologies. You can read Hahn's complete post on Packaging Impressions' sister publication, Printing Impressions, at Target Report: May 2023 (piworld.com); check out the Target Report online, which includes deal logs and source links for the deals, at The Target Report: The Party is Over at Vice Media, and Why it Matters – May 2023 M&A Activity; or learn more about Graphic Arts Advisors at graphicartsadvisors.com
Mark Hahn is a managing director and founder of Graphic Arts Advisors, a boutique strategic financial advisory and consulting firm focused exclusively on the printing, packaging, mailing, marketing services, brand management, and related graphic communications industries. With more than 35 years of graphic communications experience in the areas of finance, operations, sales, M&A, and general management, Hahn has served as chief financial officer, chief operating officer and other senior positions with several commercial printing companies, as well as founding and eventually selling his own printing company. The firm assists company owners and management, as well as their lenders, investors and shareholders in the following areas: mergers and acquisitions, sale of business, strategic and financial advisory, capital structure and funding, financial analysis, interim and turnaround C-level management, business valuations and serving as consulting experts. Hahn is the author of The Target Report and is regularly published and quoted in printing industry trade and management journals. Mark Hahn can be reached at (973) 588-7399 or mark@graphicartsadvisors.com.
As editor-in-chief of Packaging Impressions — the leading publication and online content provider for the printed packaging markets — Linda Casey leverages her experience in the packaging, branding, marketing, and printing industries to deliver content that label and package printers can use to improve their businesses and operations.
Prior to her role at Packaging Impressions, Casey was editor-in-chief of BXP: Brand Experience magazine, which celebrated brand design as a strategic business competence. Her body of work includes deep explorations into a range of branding, business, packaging, and printing topics.
Casey’s other passion, communications, has landed her on the staffs of a multitude of print publications, including Package Design, Converting, Packaging Digest, Instant & Small Commercial Printer, High Volume Printing, BXP: Brand Experience magazine, and more. Casey started her career more than three decades ago as news director for WJAM, a youth-oriented music-and-news counterpart to WGCI and part of the Chicago-based station’s AM band presence.
