Sandy Alexander, a Snow Peak Capital Portfolio Company, Acquires Abbott Communications Group

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company announced that it has unified its Content and Creative Services (CCS) and Global Outsourcing (GO) capabilities to expand and streamline offerings for clients. By aligning these capabilities, the Company will be able to better address client needs through a single, centralized global resource platform for creative communications, managed services, transaction processing, and intelligent digital solutions. “Now, more than ever, companies are in need of compelling content creation, coupled with technology-enabled solutions for their creative communications that empower content production at scale,” said Kiran Shankar, President, RRD GO CreativeTM. “We created this new integrated platform in response to an ongoing need articulated by our clients and that we are seeing in the broader market — that is, to provide a seamless high-velocity content services offering, supported by a best-in-class tech stack.”

Sheridan has acquired PubFactory, the industry-lauded online publishing platform for journals, books, and reference works, from O’Reilly Media. PubFactory will continue to be based out of Boston, MA, and will blend seamlessly into the Sheridan stable of publisher technology products and services. The PubFactory team has been developing and delivering scholarly publishing technologies since 1999. In 2010, the PubFactory platform officially launched with the deployment of several major Oxford University Press products. This was quickly followed by the International Monetary Fund’s eLibrary and De Gruyter’s journals, books, and database products launching in 2011. Notable publishers including Bloomsbury Publishing, Brill, Edward Elgar Publishing, Harvard University Press, Peter Lang, and others have since joined the growing list of PubFactory customers. PubFactory’s configurable suite of front-end and back-end capabilities allows for optimal support across content types, making it a truly content agnostic platform that is host to 1400+ journals, 400,000+ books, and numerous database and reference work products. Click Read More below for additional detail.

Komori America announced that The Marek Group, a provider of sales effectiveness and marketing execution services, is looking forward to gaining a higher level of productivity and faster speed to market with its investment in the company’s first Komori press, an eight-color Lithrone G40 advance perfector (GL840P advance) with LED-UV. The family-owned company, with headquarters in Waukesha, Wisconsin and three additional locations, offers an array of services that provide clients with a single solution for sales support and marketing campaign execution. The company contributes part of its success to following a deliberate CapEx process that focuses on the investments needed to stay current with a portfolio that includes print, promotions, mail, incentives, kitting, fulfillment and sales enablement technology. Recognizing it was time for its pressroom to be modernized, The Marek Group team began to search for a press that would offer the automation, efficiencies and quick makereadies needed to handle the growing volume of bold, eye-catching print solutions the company produces.