2025 Update: Printing and Packaging Mergers and Acquisitions

By Ashley Edmondson

Sponsored by: New Direction Partners
Speakers:

Jim Russell, Partner, New Direction Partners and Peter Schaefer, Partner, New Direction Partners

In this session, New Direction Partners experts Jim Russell and Peter Schaefer offer a quick review of the M&A environment for printing and packaging mergers and acquisitions, as well as a 2025 outlook, including macro and micro economic data, types of companies most likely to sell in 2025, and a review of the types of buyers in the market for these businesses.

In this session, you will learn:

How 2024 was a good year for M&A in our industry.
What the economic environment looks like for 2025.
What types of companies are likely to be most attractive to buyers in 2025 and why.
How companies should approach valuation to create a realistic offer to the market.
How to plan for a future purchase or sale and anticipated timeframes for a transaction to close.
How New Direction Partners can help.