Business Management - M&A
EFI will gain the customer base of FreeFlow DFE users, and Xerox can focus on its digital press hardware and consumables businesses.
Xerox and EFI have announced a strategic partnership to bring to market a next generation digital front end to drive Xerox digital production presses. The agreement includes the sale of Xerox’s FreeFlow Print Server digital front end business to EFI.
Participants will learn the key elements of the plan to successfully transfer leadership and ownership of a printing & packaging firm.
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.
WestRock and Multi Packaging Solutions have announced that a definitive agreement has been reached for WestRock to acquire the outstanding shares of MPS for $18.00 per share in cash and the assumption of an estimated $873 million in net debt, for a total enterprise value of $2.28 billion.
The fast pace of transactions in 2016 tells us that the market is sound and many that are looking for opportunities to buy or sell have had little difficulty in locating them.
At New Direction Partners, we have found that closing a deal is almost always the culmination of a number of steps — six, to be precise — in a process that applies both to buying and to selling.
Fortis Solutions Group has announced its acquisition of Action Packaging Systems, a provider of pressure sensitive prime, promotional and thermal labels to customers across the country. It will operate under the Fortis Solutions Group name.
KBA North America has been named the North American exclusive distributor for the newly acquired Spanish medium- and large-format flatbed diecutter manufacturer Iberica AG S.A. by its parent company, Koenig & Bauer.
In our recent webinar, we were happy to report that the pace of dealmaking in the industry remains strong and that opportunities for buyers and sellers should continue to be abundant at least in the near term. How long these conditions will last is impossible to predict. For the moment, though, as M&A advisers, we like what we’re seeing.