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On this episode of The Week that Was, Paper Excellence acquired Domtar; Canon announced the new ColorStream 8000 series; the April M&A Target Report was just released; and the latest edition of the COVID-19 Print Business Indicators research report is now live.
A prospective client seeking to sell their company recently asked me if the recent craze involving the use of SPACs to buy private companies might be applicable to their firm. I answered unequivocally that SPACs were suited to much bigger companies as well as industries with more future growth and appeal than exhibited by the mature printing and packaging industry. I was wrong. In the case of one industrial printing company, a merger into a SPAC is the pathway to value and liquidity for the owners. SPAC is the acronym for a Special Purpose Acquisition Company. In simple terms, a SPAC is essen...
"Idiom" Book Sculpture, Prague City Library. Books endure. We discard newspapers the day after, magazines stick around a bit longer, junk mail not at all, but books we keep. After we read a book, we shelve them, we show off our book collection as backdrops in our Zoom calls, we stack books in corners, we store them in boxes, we might drop them off at a used bookstore, we might even make books into works of art, but we almost never just toss them out. Printed books endure. Book printing company Grafica Veneta, located in the Italian province of Padua, a half hour drive from the causeway to Ven...
On this episode of The Week that Was, the annual list of the largest printing companies in the U.S. and Canada is out now; current trends in the book printing segment is examined; the latest issue of the Target Report is out now; and Bill McPherson of AlphaGraphics talks about business during the pandemic.
ACER’s first 70% target report on the minimum margin available for cross-zonal electricity trade in the EU 18.12.2020 Section 1 Left Image What is the minimum 70% cross-zonal electricity capacity target? Europe's Clean Energy Package (CEP) has set a binding minimum 70% target for electricity interconnector capacity for cross-zonal trading (the “minimum 70% target"). Why is monitoring the 'minimum 70% Target' important? The lack of sufficient cross-zonal capacity is one of the main barriers to the integration of electricity markets, and market integration is key ...