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Urbanimmersive acquires Agento, IMOTO and RocketPhoto Acquisitions 

Urbanimmersive acquires Agento, IMOTO and RocketPhoto

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Urbanimmersive Inc. announces having completed the acquisition of all the shares outstanding of the real estate photography agency Agento Marketing for a purchase price of $1.2 million, paid through the immediate issuance of 1,518,987 shares of the company at a price of $0.79 per share plus a contingent share payment (earn-outs) totaling up to $600,000 payable in 12 months and... Read More
Not so fast, Atlas: RRD to be acquired by Chatham Asset Management Acquisitions News 

Not so fast, Atlas: RRD to be acquired by Chatham Asset Management

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After weeks of seesawing back and forth between suitors, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Chatham Asset Management, LLC, a private investment firm, in an all-cash transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $2.3 billion and total equity value of approximately $897 million. RRD also announced it terminated... Read More
Urbanimmersive acquires Virtual Access Tours Acquisitions 

Urbanimmersive acquires Virtual Access Tours

GaryPageau
Quebec-based Urbanimmersive Inc. completed the acquisition of all the limited partnership interests of the New Jersey-based real estate photography agency Virtual Access Tours LP (VAT) for a purchase price of $CAD 961,000 ($449,000 paid in cash and $513,000 paid through the immediate issuance of 585,829 shares of the company at a price of $0.875 per share) plus contingent share payments... Read More
R.R. Donnelley accepts revised Atlas proposal Acquisitions 

R.R. Donnelley accepts revised Atlas proposal

GaryPageau
R.R. Donnelley & Sons accepted a revised proposal from Atlas Holdings affiliates to raise the price per share of their pending acquisition of RRD to $10.35/share in cash, worth about $2.2 billion. Just earlier this month, R.R. Donnelley had stated that the bid from Atlas Holdings’ rival Chatham Asset, was a superior choice. R.R. Donnelley agreed to an amendment to its previously... Read More
Smartphoto group takes over gift-marketer Frucon² Acquisitions News 

Smartphoto group takes over gift-marketer Frucon²

GaryPageau
Smartphoto group NV, the Belguin-based player in personalized e-commerce, came to a final agreement regarding the acquisition of Frucon² NV from entrepreneur Benny Sintobin. Frucon², located in Ardooie, Belgium, is one of the online European market leaders in the sale of personalised gift packages with chocolate, beer, fruit or flowers for companies and consumers, with websites such as Gift.be and... Read More
Picsart to acquire computer vision and AI company DeepCraft Acquisitions News 

Picsart to acquire computer vision and AI company DeepCraft

GaryPageau
Digital creation platform Picsart is acquiring the research and development company DeepCraft for an undisclosed sum. This is Picsart’s second video-based acquisition. Last year Picsart acquired the advanced video effects company “D’efekt,” since rebranded to EFEKT. This is also Picsart’s first acquisition since the announcement of its Series C funding and unicorn status earlier this year. The company said DeepCraft’s “breakthroughs in computer... Read More
Urbanimmersive acquires real estate photography agency Agence Immophoto, Tours Virtuales Acquisitions News 

Urbanimmersive acquires real estate photography agency Agence Immophoto, Tours Virtuales

GaryPageau
Urbanimmersive closed the acquisition of all the outstanding shares of the real-estate photography agency Agence Immophoto Inc. for a total purchase price of $500,000. of which $300,000 payable immediately, $100,000 payable by the immediate issuance of 103,093 shares of the company stock at a price of $0.97 per share, and $100,000 payable in shares 12 months following closing. This new... Read More
Vitec Group acquires Savage Universal Acquisitions News 

Vitec Group acquires Savage Universal

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Vitec Imaging Solutions, a division of The Vitec Group plc announced the acquisition of Phoenix, Ariz-based, background manufacturer Savage Universal Corp. and its affiliates, with the deal expected to close by the end of November 2021. Savage Universal was founded in 1937 and manufactures an extensive range of high-quality, specialist, seamless paper backgrounds, or backdrops, ensuring the essentially flat, crease-free... Read More
Zenfolio acquires Format website-building business Acquisitions News 

Zenfolio acquires Format website-building business

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Zenfolio has acquired Format, a worldwide website-building platform and marketplace based in Toronto, Canada. Both companies offer SaaS business solutions; Zenfolio since 2006 and Format since 2010. Terms weren’t disclosed. The two brands will initially operate in parallel, each retaining its current employee workforce and subscription base. Format will continue to be headquartered in Toronto. Zenfolio headquarters will continue to... Read More
RR Donnelley agrees to $2.1 billion acquisition from from Atlas Holdings Acquisitions News 

RR Donnelley agrees to $2.1 billion acquisition from from Atlas Holdings

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North America’s largest commercial printing conglomerate (and owner of the Motif Photos app) RR Donnelley & Sons (RRD) announced it  entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Atlas Holdings in an all-cash transaction with a value of approximately $2.1 billion ($8.52 per share). The transaction, unanimously approved by the RRD board, is expected to close in the... Read More
VistaPrint acquires DepositPhotos and Crello, changes name to Vista Acquisitions News 

VistaPrint acquires DepositPhotos and Crello, changes name to Vista

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Fueled by recent acquisitions, personalized printing platform VistaPrint is rebranding as “Vista” to reflect the company’s pivot to becoming a full-range graphics company. This new parent brand encompasses VistaPrint, 99designs by Vista, Vista x Wix and the company’s most recent acquisition, Crello. Crello, a do-it-yourself (DIY) digital design site founded in 2017, is now rebranded under Vista as VistaCreate. As... Read More
Edge Imaging acquires Lasting Images Photography Acquisitions 

Edge Imaging acquires Lasting Images Photography

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Effective Aug. 31, 2021, Edge Imaging Inc., the largest Canadian-owned and operated school digital imaging company, acquired the school photography business of Lasting Images Photography of St. Catharines, Ontario. This is the second acquisition for Edge Imaging during the pandemic: In February, the  Toronto-based company acquired Bob Johnson Photography. Last October, the Dead Pixels Society interviewed James Aziz, CEO of... Read More
Shutterstock acquires PicMonkey Acquisitions 

Shutterstock acquires PicMonkey

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Shutterstock, Inc. announced the $110 million acquisition of PicMonkey, an online graphic design and image editing platform, from Spectrum Equity. The company said the deal complements Shutterstock’s content subscriptions with easy-to-use image and video design tools and expands Shutterstock’s “audience reach and addressable market by extending into the rapidly growing $8 billion market opportunity for creative software and design tools.” The... Read More
Sky News: Photobox Group in talks to combine with Albelli Acquisitions 

Sky News: Photobox Group in talks to combine with Albelli

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Sky News reports the owner of  U.K.-based Photobox Group – private-equity firm Exponent – is in “advanced talks” combine with continental personalized printing competitor Albelli (also known as Albumprinter Holding). The combined business would be worth £500 million. City Editor Mark Kleinman writes the deal is close to being finalized but could still fall through. Albelli operates Bonusprint, which is in... Read More