Business Management - M&A

hubergroup, USA, Inc. and Alden & Ott Printing Inks Co. have announced that hubergroup has acquired substantially all of the assets of Alden & Ott in a private deal. Alden & Ott is a comprehensive ink manufacturer developing custom solutions for both the offset and flexo printing markets in the Midwest and Northeast.

Do you, as the owner of a printing business, have a plan for no longer being the owner of that business?

You've finally made it to the point in an acquisition where you can sit down with the seller and close the deal. This is the point at which we always urge our buying clients to pause, take a breath, and circle back to the essentials of the transaction.

In diplomacy, the motto for negotiators and peacemakers is “Trust, but verify.” The advice applies to M&A transactions between printing companies as well. Get the facts, confirm the understandings and be open about everything that the process discloses.

Negotiation is the most critical step in our six-stage journey toward a deal — the phase in which the transaction either comes together as the negotiators want it to or falls apart because their efforts have worn them out.

RotoMetrics and Electro Optic have announced a merger bringing together two of the label and printing industry's strongest brands to offer customers the most comprehensive and highest quality rotary tooling products in the market.

Advanced Vision Technology (AVT), has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Pelican Merger Holdings Israel Ltd. pursuant to which it will be acquired by Danaher Corporation's Product Identification Platform.

"I may not know everything, but I know what I like." We base many personal decisions on this bit of homespun wisdom, and more often than not, it leads us to the right choice.

If you compete in the point-of-purchase (POP) and/or packaging products arena, you should familiarize yourself with Melbourne, Australia-based Orora Ltd. The Australian firm has been on an acquisition tear and just announced its acquisition of The Garvey Group and Graphic Tech.

The Landa Group and ALTANA AG announced on February 21 that ALTANA has acquired Landa’s Nano-Metallography technology, a process said to be capable of adding metallic highlights to labels, packages, and other printed items at half the cost of conventional foil stamping.