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Packaging - 2007
Wyndeham Visual Communications has acquired Professional Imaging for undisclosed terms, increasing the headcount at its Essex-based Colourlink printing business to 50.
18-Dec-2007
Benson Group has acquired Integrated Packaging, the Gateshead-based chilled packaging company with 180 staff.
12-Dec-2007
VantagePoint Systems, the Leicestershire-based developer of software systems for the packaging industry, is to be acquired by Solarsoft of the US for about £6m.
07-Dec-2007
Envases has secured funding from Royal Bank of Scotland and the Welsh Assembly to invest £6m in the expansion of its aluminium packaging factory in Port Talbot.
05-Dec-2007
Gemini Group of Shoreham is to merge with Beard Digital of Hove to create a combined Sussex-based printing group with annual turnover of £20m and 220 staff.
03-Dec-2007
Nicholl Food Packaging has acquired Bachmann Aluminium, the German packaging supplier with 43 staff, for undisclosed terms.
28-Nov-2007
Kemshell Design & Print of Wakefield has been acquired by Lick of Huddersfield, and the business will be consolidated into Lick's site next March.
27-Nov-2007
Excelsior Technologies has acquired Omni Flexibles, the Salford-based flexible packaging manufacturer, for undisclosed terms, creating a combined group with annual revenue of £40m.
22-Nov-2007
Barony Universal, the Ayrshire-based aerosol manufacturer with 100 staff, has been acquired by Arnest of Russia.
22-Nov-2007
Palm Paper has secured planning permission to build a £330m newsprint paper plant in King's Lynn by summer 2009, with the creation of 150 jobs.
22-Nov-2007
Nampak Plastics is planning to set up a multi-million pound plastic bottle recycling plant at an undisclosed site in the north east of England by the end of 2008.
22-Nov-2007
Ahlstrom is to create about 30 jobs at a new £19m tea bag fibres production plant being built at its Chirnside site in the Borders.
21-Nov-2007
Bradman Lake is to relocate its packaging machinery business from the newly-opened site in Norwich to Beccles with the loss of some of the 180 jobs, following a strategic review by new owner Langley Holdings.
21-Nov-2007
Wyndeham Press has sold its Visual Communications business to a management buy-out, including five printing and packaging design divisions with about 300 staff.
14-Nov-2007
Domino Printing Sciences has acquired its distributor in Belgium and Luxembourg from Bopack Systems for £3m.
13-Nov-2007
Shalam Packaging is seeking permission to set up a plastic packaging factory in Bedale, North Yorkshire, with the creation of up to 56 jobs.
13-Nov-2007
Sterling Financial Print has bought Greenaway Harrison, the London-based printing firm, out of administration for undisclosed terms.
12-Nov-2007
Roto Smeets is to acquire the European operations of Quebecor World for £129m, including a printing plant in Corby and 17 other sites.
09-Nov-2007
Paragon Group has acquired Lithotech, the French commercial printing company with annual turnover of about £42m.
07-Nov-2007
Wrap Film Systems, the Telford-based supplier of clingfilm dispensers with about 120 staff, has undergone a £21m management buy-out backed by Close Growth Capital.
07-Nov-2007
Media & Print Investments is planning to close The Friary Press in Dorchester and relocate about 100 jobs to the Butler & Tanner book printing site in Frome by the end of the year.
05-Nov-2007
Colchester Print Group has bought the goodwill and assets of Piggott Black Bear, the Cambridge-based magazine printer with 26 staff, out of administration for undisclosed terms.
26-Oct-2007
Rigid Containers is to expand its packaging and logistics warehouse in Selby by 50,000 sq ft by next spring, with the creation of 15 jobs.
26-Oct-2007
Litho Supplies has acquired Graphica Plus, the Hampshire-based supplier of printing equipment, for an initial £0.6m.
25-Oct-2007
AlphaGraphics North-East has announced a £4m investment programme at its main printing plant in Stockton, including new equipment and the creation of about 20 jobs over the next two years.
25-Oct-2007
Enodis is to acquire TRUpour, the Irish beverage dispense company, for an initial £3.5m, in order to expand its Scotsman Beverage Systems subsidiary.
24-Oct-2007
Alibone Recycling, the Northampton-based paper recycling company, has been acquired by private capital firm Reconomy for undisclosed terms.
24-Oct-2007
Imprint Creative Print Solutions (ICPS) has acquired Perfect Screen Print, the Tyneside-based printing firm with 35 staff.
22-Oct-2007
Bradman Lake, the Norfolk-based packaging machinery supplier with 350 staff in Norwich, Bristol and worldwide, is to be acquired by Langley Holdings.
19-Oct-2007
Goulds Tissue, the Heywood-based tissue paper manufacturer with 110 staff, has been bought out of administration by Staples Holdings of Sleaford.
19-Oct-2007
RPC Group has acquired Raytec, the Dutch injection moulding company, for £3m.
10-Oct-2007
Macfarlane Group is to sell its foam packaging operations in the US and Mexico to Specialized Packaging Group for £3.8m.
09-Oct-2007
Scott Group has acquired Marlaw Pallets, the Airdrie-based pallet manufacturer, for undisclosed terms, increasing its workforce from 850 to 1,150.
04-Oct-2007
PCF Print Management, the Newport-based printing firm with 16 staff, has undergone a management buy-out.
03-Oct-2007
Henry Sutcliffe, the Salford-based manufacturer of wooden and plastic containers with 25 staff, has been acquired by Scott Group of Fife.
24-Sep-2007
Firstan, the Cambridge-based packaging printer with 130 staff, has undergone a secondary buy-out from Lloyds TSB Development Capital, and is now seeking acquisitions.
21-Sep-2007
Pindar Graphics has acquired Acorn E-Commerce, the Farnham-based printing firm that specialises in small retailers and the mail order market.
14-Sep-2007
M&H Plastics, the Suffolk-based plastic bottles manufacturer with 500 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Bank of Scotland.
13-Sep-2007
International Greetings has acquired Glitterwrap, the US supplier of gift wrap and party products, for £4m.
10-Sep-2007
RPM Print & Design has acquired The Better Book Company, the Chichester-based publishing company.
10-Sep-2007
Bunzl is to acquire DG Distributors & Vendors, the Irish distributor of foodservice disposables that trades as Irish Merchants and has annual revenue of £30m.
06-Sep-2007
Wilsanco Plastics is investing £2.5m in a new warehouse for its rigid packaging business at Dungannon in Northern Ireland.
30-Aug-2007
British Polythene Industries has acquired AT Films, the Canadian manufacturer of polythene film products for agriculture with 65 staff, from Celanese for £6m.
22-Aug-2007
Mister Blister has secured £1.2m from RBS Commercial Banking to fund the expansion of its Manchester-based tamper-resistant packaging business.
15-Aug-2007
Butler & Tanner, the Frome-based book printer, has been bought out of administration by Media & Print Investments, securing the future of 270 jobs.
08-Aug-2007
Bulk Packaging Group, the Stockport-based manufacturer of storage drums with 220 staff, has undergone a £5m management buy-out from Dutch private equity firm AlpInvest.
31-Jul-2007
Bespak has bought Decorpart, the Nelson-based metal packaging company with more than 200 staff, out of administration, and the business has been renamed Integrated Aluminium Components.
30-Jul-2007
Labelsco, the Leicestershire-based label printer with 130 staff, has been acquired by MSO Group for undisclosed terms.
26-Jul-2007
Epoch Design, the Bristol-based packaging design company with 38 staff, has been acquired by Loewy for £10m.
25-Jul-2007
Clegg Construction has won a £4.5m contract to build an aerosols factory for Coster Special Technology at Barlborough near Chesterfield.
23-Jul-2007
Bunzl is to acquire King Benelux Holding, the Dutch distributor of products to the healthcare and contract cleaning sectors, for £39m.
16-Jul-2007
Antalis is to acquire Map Merchant Group for £258m, creating a combined paper merchant group with 8,400 staff in 44 countries.
09-Jul-2007
Mondi is to acquire Unterland Flexible Packaging of Australia for £50m and a 54% stake in Turkish packaging company Tire Kustan for £53m.
09-Jul-2007
Realisis has bought Terry Smith Group, the West Drayton-based point-of-sale printing firm with about 100 staff, out of administration for undisclosed terms.
06-Jul-2007
Rexam is in negotiations to acquire Rostar, the Russian manufacturer of beverage cans, for £149m.
05-Jul-2007
Darley, the Burton-based print and packaging company with 75 staff, has undergone a £3.5m management buy-out backed by GE Commercial Finance.
04-Jul-2007
Mercury Packaging is planning to expand its 30-strong workforce at Kirkby-in-Ashfield with 15 new staff, following a £1.2m investment in a new printing press.
03-Jul-2007
Hampson Industries has sold its precision industrial division, which makes components and assemblies for the glass bottle and container manufacturing industry, to a new company called Lattimer Holdings for £4m.
28-Jun-2007
Filtrona is to sell its Globalpack consumer packaging business in Brazil to the Itavema Group for £28m.
26-Jun-2007
APW Enclosure Systems of Southampton has sold its metal enclosures product line out of administration to a new company called Verotec, while the plastic enclosures business has been acquired by Vero Technologies.
22-Jun-2007
McLaren Packaging is planning to build a new cardboard whisky packaging factory at its site in Inverclyde over the next two years, increasing its workforce from 53 to 100.
18-Jun-2007
Leicester Paper Company (LPC) is to acquire Duffel Mill, the Belgian paper products company with 160 staff, from Kimberly Clark for undisclosed terms.
14-Jun-2007
Dragon Plastics has acquired Riverside Plastics, the Pontypridd-based bottle blow moulder, out of administration, and the business will be renamed Riverside Packaging.
14-Jun-2007
Rexam is to acquire O-I Plastics, the plastic packaging company with 2,800 staff, from Owens Illinois of the US for £813m.
12-Jun-2007
Merlin Packaging has sold its Glasgow division out of administration to The Boxshop, while the Elderglade Packaging division has been sold to Custompak and John Baldwin Packaging Services to Corrugated Box Supplies.
06-Jun-2007
BFS Pressroom Solutions has acquired Tyke Rollers, the Suffolk-based printing roller manufacturer, for undisclosed terms.
31-May-2007
William Clowes, the Suffolk-based printing firm with 200 staff, is to be acquired by the UK chief executive of CPI.
28-May-2007
Palm Paper is planning to build a £300m newsprint paper mill in King's Lynn by 2009, with the creation of 150 jobs.
18-May-2007
Label Apeel, the Leicester-based label and ticket printer with 44 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance.
16-May-2007
Scott Timber Group has acquired a majority stake in European Logistics Management, and plans to expand the 25-strong workforce at the Swadlincote-based pallet and packaging recovery service.
15-May-2007
Domino Printing Sciences has acquired On-Line Coding, the Reading-based distributor of Domino's Easyprint thermal transfer overprinting range, for an initial £0.3m.
14-May-2007
Riley Dunn & Wilson has been bought out of administration by a new company called Dunn & Mills, securing the future of 57 jobs at its bookbinding operations in Falkirk and Huddersfield.
14-May-2007
VLM UK is to create 33 new jobs in Birmingham, having won a contract to print the new home information packs for house sales.
09-May-2007
Elopak has sold two HDPE plastic bottle manufacturing operations - Auspac of Foston and Elopak Plastic Systems of Bracknell - to a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
02-May-2007
Corniche Fine Arts is planning to create up to 25 new jobs at its packaging graphics business in Bridlington over the next three years, as part of a strategy that will involve a rise in turnover from £3m to £5m.
17-Apr-2007
CGI Squared has acquired Kinverleigh, the Birmingham-based print management and design company.
16-Apr-2007
Document Solutions, the Bradford-based distributor of Xerox printers, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Baker Tilly and HSBC.
13-Apr-2007
Prontaprint is planning to expand its chain of printing outlets in the UK and Ireland from 171 to 200, and is also looking to open franchises in continental Europe.
12-Apr-2007
Berry Plastics UK, the Norfolk-based manufacturer of aerosol and bottle caps, is to be acquired by Plasticum Group of the Netherlands for undisclosed terms.
12-Apr-2007
De-Pack, the Loughborough-based aerosol cans recycling company, has been acquired by PHS for undisclosed terms.
03-Apr-2007
Fiberweb is to sell its hygiene wipes business to Ahlstrom of Finland for £44m, including manufacturing operations in Spain, Italy and the US.
02-Apr-2007
United Business Media has acquired EU Consulting, the Finnish paper and packaging consultancy, for £0.3m.
27-Mar-2007
Professional Packaging Services, the Guiseley-based packaging design company with 17 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by McInnes Corporate Finance.
27-Mar-2007
International Greetings has acquired Eick Pack, the German manufacturer of gift wrap counter rolls, for £0.3m.
23-Mar-2007
Prime Packaging, the Bradford-based supplier of fabric labels, has been acquired by Jourdan for up to £1.6m.
19-Mar-2007
Bradman Lake is planning to relocate its Norwich-based packaging machinery factory to a new site in Old Hall Road this summer.
15-Mar-2007
Gardners is planning to relocate its Cardiff-based printing business and up to 98 staff to a larger 60,000 sq ft site at Pentwyn, as part of a £2.4m expansion that will create 41 jobs.
14-Mar-2007
Rexam is to sell its glass packaging business to Ardagh of Ireland for £449m, including 3,600 staff at 13 sites throughout Europe.
13-Mar-2007
Closed Loop London is to set up a recycling centre in Dagenham by the end of the year, in order to convert reclaimed bottles into food-grade PET packaging.
09-Mar-2007
Adare Group has sold its Prontaprint and KallKwik chains of 320 design and print centres to a management buy-out backed by Boundary Capital for undisclosed terms.
09-Mar-2007
Pindar has acquired Cooper Clegg, the Tewkesbury-based magazine printer with 250 staff, for undisclosed terms.
06-Mar-2007
Encore Washington, the envelope manufacturer with 280 staff in Hertburn and York, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
06-Mar-2007
Venture Business Forms, the printing company with 28 staff in Leicester, Ilkeston and Newcastle under Lyme, has undergone a management buy-out.
05-Mar-2007
BGP is planning a £25m investment in a new web offset printing factory at its site in Bicester, with the creation of about 100 jobs.
02-Mar-2007
Tangent Communications has acquired Ravensworth Digital Services, the Newcastle upon Tyne-based printing company with 60 staff, for up to £5.8m.
27-Feb-2007
F Bender, the paper products manufacturer with 275 staff in Wrexham and North London, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Barclays Ventures.
26-Feb-2007
Avid Holdings is to acquire Electro-Mec, the Reading-based supplier of blister pack change tooling for the pharmaceutical industry with 38 staff, for an initial £0.8m.
21-Feb-2007
Garden House Press of Somerset has sold its main assets out of administration to Media & Print Investments, but 83 jobs have been lost.
20-Feb-2007
Polythene Industries, the Liverpool-based bag and pallet manufacturer with 60 staff, has been bought out of administration by a new company called Polythene Industries (UK).
14-Feb-2007
Mondi Speciality Packaging, the packaging supplier with sites in Wetherby and Chesterfield, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Modus Private Equity, creating a new business called Inspirepac.
13-Feb-2007
Envases is to invest £5m in the expansion of its aluminium aerosols factory in Port Talbot, with the creation of ten jobs.
07-Feb-2007
FE Burman of South London has acquired Trigon Mailing Services, in order to diversify its printing business into mailing.
01-Feb-2007
Allied Glass is investing £10m in new melting furnaces at its glass packaging factory in Leeds.
01-Feb-2007
Blackburns is to extend its Leeds-based direct mail facility by 30,000 sq ft over the next few months.
26-Jan-2007
Land Securities Trillium is to develop a £12m 52,000 sq ft printing plant in Fforestfach, Swansea, for the DVLA by September 2007.
22-Jan-2007
Bespoke Envelopes of Sidcup has merged with Barking-based Direct Envelopes to create a combined envelope manufacturing group with 50 staff.
19-Jan-2007
Friary Press, the Dorset-based magazine printer with 85 staff, has been acquired by Media & Print Investments.
19-Jan-2007
CEPS is to acquire Sunline Direct Mail for an initial £3.8m, including packing and mailing operations in Loughborough and Redditch.
12-Jan-2007
Nicholl Food Packaging, the Cannock-based foil packaging manufacturer with 176 staff, has been acquired by US investment firm Audax Group for an estimated £50m.
12-Jan-2007
Ahlstrom is to invest £19m in the expansion of its Chirnside paper mill near Berwick by late 2008, with the creation of about 30 jobs.
02-Jan-2007
Curtis Fine Papers, the Fife-based paper manufacturer with annual turnover of £31m, has undergone a secondary management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
02-Jan-2007