Business Management - M&A

Fortis Solutions Group has acquired Merced, Calif.-based Label Technology, a flexible packaging, stand-up pouches and pressure-sensitive labels printer that serves the food, natural products, nutraceutical, cosmetic, and health and beauty end markets.

The German antitrust authority that regulates and prohibits what it deems to be monopolies or cartels, struck down the proposed deal.

Proactive Packaging and Display, an Ontario, Calif.-based printer of corrugated displays and packaging, has been acquired by New-Indy Containerboard, a joint venture between Schwarz Partners LP and Kraft Group LLC.

WestRock Company is expanding its capabilities to support the beauty and personal care, nutraceutical and media industries with the acquisition of UBS Printing Group, Inc., a specialty printing and packaging company that manufactures high impact cartons, as well as related literature products.

Cenveo has announced the sale of its long-run labels and receipt paper assets to Iconex LLC, a portfolio company of Atlas Holdings. The sale includes plants in Joplin, Mo. and Jefferson City, Tenn., along with certain assets of the Vernon, Calif. plant. The acquisition will allow Iconex to expand on its current portfolio of label solutions.

EFI's announcement about its intentions to be acquired by private equity firm Siris Capital Group in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.7 billion shouldn't come as a total surprise. After all, the private equity world has been taking notice of the printing and, especially, packaging markets for a while now.

Under the terms of the agreement, which has been unanimously approved by EFI’s Board of Directors, an affiliate of Siris will acquire all the outstanding common stock of EFI for $37 per share in cash. The purchase price represents an approximately 45% premium over EFI’s 90 day volume weighted average price ended on April 12, 2019.

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Multi-Color Corporation has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Platinum Equity LLC.