Add-on Acquisition • Business Services

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Acquires Genesis Packaging & Design

On September 6, 2011, R.R. Donnelley & Sons acquired business services company Genesis Packaging & Design

Acquisition Context

This is R.R. Donnelley & Sons’ 11th transaction in the Business Services sector.
This is R.R. Donnelley & Sons’ 15th transaction in the United States.
This is R.R. Donnelley & Sons’ 1st transaction in Illinois.

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M&A Deal Summary
Date	September 6, 2011
Target	Genesis Packaging & Design
Sector	Business Services
Buyer(s)	R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Deal Type	Add-on Acquisition

Target Company

Genesis Packaging & Design

Lemont, Illinois, United States

Genesis Packaging & Design, Inc., provides custom packaging, including designing, printing, die cutting, finishing and assembling services. Genesis also offers a broad spectrum of value added services, including design and production of point-of-purchase displays and signage.

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Buyer Overview 1

Buyer

R.R. Donnelley & Sons

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Category	Company
Founded	1864
Sector	Business Services
Employees	33,000
Revenue	4.8B USD (2020)

DESCRIPTION

Entrance to RR Donnelley's office in Warrenville, Illinois.

R.R. Donnelley & Sons is a global provider of integrated communications. The Company works with customers worldwide to develop custom communications solutions that reduce costs, enhance return on investment and ensure compliance. Drawing on a range of proprietary and commercially available digital and conventional technologies deployed across four continents, the Company employs a suite of Internet-based capabilities and other resources to provide premedia, printing, logistics and business process outsourcing products and services to leading clients in virtually every private and public sector. R.R. Donnelley was formed in 1864 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Deal Context for Buyer	#
Overall	18 of 31
Sector: Business Services	11 of 15
Type: Add-on Acquisition	17 of 26
State: Illinois	1 of 2
Country: United States	15 of 27
Year: 2011	5 of 6

PREVIOUS DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2011-08-29	LibreDigital Austin, Texas, United States LibreDigital, Inc., is a provider of digital content distribution, ereading software, content conversion, data analytics, and business intelligence services to book, magazine, and newspaper publishers as well as to ereader device providers. The company started out providing digital copies of newspapers and in 2006 began to focus on the electronic book market.	Buy	-

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2011-08-29

LibreDigital

Austin, Texas, United States

LibreDigital, Inc., is a provider of digital content distribution, ereading software, content conversion, data analytics, and business intelligence services to book, magazine, and newspaper publishers as well as to ereader device providers. The company started out providing digital copies of newspapers and in 2006 began to focus on the electronic book market.

Buy

FOLLOWING DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2011-11-22	StratusGroup West Chester, Ohio, United States StratusGroup, Inc. is a full service manufacturer of custom pressure sensitive label and paperboard packaging products for health and beauty, food, beverage and other segments.	Buy	-

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2011-11-22

StratusGroup

West Chester, Ohio, United States

StratusGroup, Inc. is a full service manufacturer of custom pressure sensitive label and paperboard packaging products for health and beauty, food, beverage and other segments.

Buy

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