News on Suppliers to the Packaging Printing Industry from packagePRINTING September 2012

Mesirow Advises Boelter Industries

CHICAGO—Mesirow Financial acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Boelter Industries, Inc. in its sale to WS Packaging Group, Inc., a portfolio company of J.W. Childs Associates, L.P.

Boelter Industries is a full-service folding carton company located in Winona, Minnesota. It specializes in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of folding cartons and converted paperboard products for a broad range of end-use applications. The company uses two converting processes: offset lithography with an emphasis on small- to large-format, multi-colored, key-line, and/or process printing requirements, and flexographic printing with inline diecutting, using state-of-the-art equipment in narrow-web, mid-range, and wide-web capabilities.