M&A Deal Summary

ProAmpac Acquires Prolamina

On November 3, 2015, ProAmpac acquired packaging company Prolamina from Wellspring Capital Management

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is ProAmpac’s 2nd transaction in the Packaging sector.
  • This is ProAmpac’s 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is ProAmpac’s 1st transaction in Illinois.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-11-03
Target Prolamina
Sector Packaging
Buyer(s) ProAmpac
Sellers(s) Wellspring Capital Management
Deal Type Merger

Target

Prolamina

Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
Prolamina Corp. is a packaging company focused on providing value-added packaging and services to the food, medical and consumer markets.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

ProAmpac

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Category Company
Founded 2015
Sector Packaging
Employees2,400
DESCRIPTION

ProAmpac is a flexible packaging company with a comprehensive product offering. ProAmpac’s approach to sustainability – ProActive Sustainability provides innovative sustainable flexible packaging products to help our customers achieve their sustainability goals. ProAmpac was founded in 2015 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 29
Sector: Packaging M&A 2 of 28
Type: Merger M&A Deals 2 of 2
State: Illinois M&A 1 of 3
Country: United States M&A 2 of 17
Year: 2015 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-08-19 Ampac Packaging

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Ampac Packaging LLC is a producer of high-volume paper and plastic packaging products, including upscale shopping bags for national retailers, audit security bags for financial institutions, and multi-layer specialty films and pouches sold to consumer product companies.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-01-01 Coating Excellence International

Wrightstown, Wisconsin, United States

Coating Excellence International LLC is a flexible packaging and technical products company specializing in wide web extrusion coating and laminating of film, foil, paper, board and nonwovens. Companty features EB coating and laminating, wide web flexographic presses with 10-color printing with registered backside print capabilities, and offset printing up to four colors.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Wellspring Capital Management

New York, New York, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1995
PE ASSETS 4.5B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Wellspring Capital Management is a mega-sized private equity firm that focused on a variety of transaction situations. The Firm will consider buyouts of private companies, acquisitions of divisions or subsidiaries of public companies, shareholder liquidity needs, partnering with entrepreneurs for growth opportunities, and special situations. Wellspring does not have any sector preferences and is capable of pursuing transactions valued up to $1 billion. Wellspring Capital Management was formed in 1995 and is based in New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 22 of 37
Sector: Packaging M&A 2 of 3
Type: Merger M&A Deals 1 of 2
State: Illinois M&A 1 of 2
Country: United States M&A 19 of 33
Year: 2015 M&A 3 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-11-03 ProAmpac

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

ProAmpac is a flexible packaging company with a comprehensive product offering. ProAmpac’s approach to sustainability – ProActive Sustainability provides innovative sustainable flexible packaging products to help our customers achieve their sustainability goals. ProAmpac was founded in 2015 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-11-20 JW Aluminum

Mt. Holly, South Carolina, United States

JW Aluminum is a manufacturer of specialty, flat-rolled aluminum products, primarily serving the heating, ventilation and air conditioning, building and construction and light gauge converter foil and flexible packaging end-use markets in the United States.

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