Anyone who owns a printing company today is an owner who should be planning either to sell it or to grow it. Today, the straightest path to growth is through mergers and acquisitions in a market that remains very receptive to these transactions. We see four reasons why the M&A climate continues to be as healthy as it is.
Jim Tepper
It’s an appeal for help that we’ve grown accustomed to hearing at New Direction Partners: “My sales are flat. We aren’t moving in the right direction as a business. I know I should be thinking about acquiring another company — but what kind of company, and how?”
If, as the owner of a printing company, you suddenly decided to stop showing up for work, could the business carry on without you?
Probably no subject gets more attention from business writers and management gurus than strategy. That’s not surprising. Without a coherent set of objectives — a precisely defined goal to work towards — everything else is just going through the motions without actually getting anywhere.
A strong ability to adapt to a changing industry, especially when it comes to the strategic use of mergers and acquisitions, has been demonstrated in recent years by members of the Printing Industries of New England, the largest printing trade association in the Northeast.
