Business Management - M&A

The future of print will increasingly be individually customized with the images we want applied to whatever products we choose.

Acquiring a printing or a packaging company is a complex process — and so is arranging the funding that makes the transaction possible. Most buyers, and especially those making their first acquisitions, will have homework to do about putting together the “stack” of capital they’ll need.

A prospective client recently asked me if the use of a Special Purpose Acquisition Company might be applicable to their firm. I said SPACs were suited to much bigger companies. I was wrong. In the case of one industrial printing company, a merger into a SPAC is the pathway to value and liquidity for the owners.

Resource Label Group has acquired Cypress MultiGraphics and its two locations in Tinley Park, Ill., and Brooklyn Center, Minn. As one of the leading durable label manufacturers in North America, Cypress MultiGraphics serves the lawn and garden, HVAC, power tools, medical equipment, and appliances industries.

PPC Flexible Packaging has announced its acquisition of North Salt Lake, Utah-based Target Labels and Packaging. Target is the seventh acquisition of specialty and differentiated flexible packaging firms by PPC in the past four years.

The partnership between ProAmpac and El Dorado will bolster ProAmpac’s operating platform within the flexible packaging industry while enabling El Dorado to pursue numerous near-term growth opportunities.

Learn how pending capital gains tax increases can wipe away improvements that might be achieved by waiting for profits to increase.

Digital Label Solutions, based in Yorba Linda, Calif., specializes in the production of short-run digital printing of custom and complex pressure-sensitive and shrink sleeve labels across a variety of growth-oriented end markets. The acquisition furthers Brook & Whittle's presence on the West Coast.

With locations in Whitefish, Mont., and Memphis Tenn., Total Label provides complex pressure sensitive, extended content, and booklet labels utilizing flexographic, letterpress, digital, and hybrid printing technologies.

Mactac has acquired Duramark Products Inc., previously known as Ritrama USA. The acquisition consists of the company’s Minneapolis, Minn., and Moore, S.C., facilities.