M&A Deal Summary

Matthews International Acquires Visual Communications Group

On February 14, 2017, Matthews International acquired digital media company Visual Communications Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Matthews International’s 1st transaction in the Digital Media sector.
  • This is Matthews International’s 8th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Matthews International’s 1st transaction in Minnesota.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2017-02-14
Target Visual Communications Group
Sector Digital Media
Buyer(s) Matthews International
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Visual Communications Group

Burnsville, Minnesota, United States
Visual Communications Group, Inc. is a full-service marketing company that serves visual and graphic communications businesses.

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Buyer

Matthews International

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Category Company
Founded 1850
Sector Diversified
Employees11,000
Revenue 1.8B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Matthews International is a designer, manufacturer, and marketer principally of memorialization products and brand solutions. Memorialization products consist primarily of bronze and granite memorials and other memorialization products, caskets and cremation equipment for the cemetery and funeral home industries. Matthews International was founded in 1850 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 12 of 17
Sector: Digital Media M&A 1 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 12 of 17
State: Minnesota M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 8 of 10
Year: 2017 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-11-28 Ungricht

Moenchengladbach, Germany

Ungricht GmbH is a provider of pre-press services and gravure printing forms.

Buy $27M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-03-01 Equator

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Equator, Ltd. is a design agency with subject matter experts in grocery retail and CPG brands.

Buy -