Mergers and acquisitions

To boost scale in the competitive Houston commercial printing market, local companies Ideal Printers and PrintMailers announced this week they are merging to form Seebridge Media.

McKenzie Clark has joined forces with event branding specialists Icon, after being acquired by Icon's parent company Chime Communications.

Sterling Financial Print has sold its manufacturing operation to DG3 Europe, in a deal that will result in DG3 creating one of the largest digital print centres in the country.

St Ives has continued its marketing services expansion with the acquisition of market research and insights consultancy Incite Marketing Planning.

Paperlinx has reported a pre-tax loss of AUD56.4m (38.3m) and a net loss of AUD60.9m for the six months to 31 December 2011 on sales of AUD2.2bn.

KPM is on the hunt for acquisitions as it looks to build on a two-year expansion programme that has seen it invest in new capital equipment, staffing and a move to a larger production facility.

UV litho and plastic printer Print-Leeds has expanded its business with a £1m acquisition of label printer Selpack, which trades as S&C Labels.

Banner Managed Communication (BMC), the print management arm of BPO company Office2office, has boosted its cross-channel media production capability with the acquisition of the trade name and certain...

Innovative Output Solutions (IOS) has entered into consultation with employees at its Edenbridge plant over plans to move the facility to Dagenham.

Bristol-based wide format printer Urban Storm has been acquired by international outdoor media specialist Prismaflex and merged with its Newhaven-based UK subsidiary.