Venture One pays $50M for RR Donnelley’s St. Charles complex

Salt Lake City-based AlphaGraphics has been acquired by MBE Worldwide (Mail Boxes Etc.), a global, third‐party logistics, printing and communications services franchise network based in Milan, Italy. The purchase of AlphaGraphics, from private equity firm Western Capital Resources, comes on the heels of MBE's acquisition this past April of the U.S.-based PostNet franchise system (which I wrote about here at the time). With the AlphaGraphics acquisition, MBE Worldwide now has approximately 2,600 locations in 39 countries and projected system-wide sales of $940 million in 2017. All three companies currently operate in the business services industry through a network of locations owned and operated by individual franchisees. Click Read More below for additional detail.

Deluxe Corporation (NYSE: DLX), a leader in providing small businesses and financial institutions with products and services to drive customer revenue, announced its financial results for the fourth quarter ended…

The trends in packaging printing are obvious: ever-declining run lengths, an increasing number of stock keeping units (SKUs) and more demanding embellishments to attract consumer attention – all of this against the backdrop of extremely short delivery times and sustainability. Special applications and the need for flawless production also add to the complexity. How can folding carton manufacturers manage this in a cost-effective way, even in Covid-19 pandemic times? Seeking an answer to this question, packaging printers in North America are increasingly investing in Heidelberg solutions for cost-effective production. “Since the onset of Covid-19 in March 2020, Packaging and Label Printers in North America have been very resilient against the downturn of the economy due to increased consumer demand for packaged goods in both grocery stores and pharmacies. Many of these printers have even grown during the crisis and are looking to invest or have recently invested in new machines and workflow from Heidelberg,” explains Felix Mueller, President of Heidelberg Americas.