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Mergers and Acquisitions in 1995

This is a partial list of mergers and acquisitions that occurred from January to November 1995. A (D) denotes a distributorship. All others are manufacturers or suppliers.

Associated Business Forms (D), Maryland Heights, Mo., merged with FMI Graphics Inc (D). All employees relocated to FMI headquarters.

Bank-N-Business Systems (D), Shreveport, La., acquired American Bank Products and Warren Williams Business Forms, both Shreveport distributorships.

Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Idaho, and Companhia Suzano de Papel e Celulose, a major Brazilian pulp and paper producer, signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture to acquire and operate Boise Cascade's pulp and paper mill, timberlands and wastepaper recycling plant in Jackson, Ala.

Business Forms Inc., Monongahela, Pa., a manufacturer of custom forms, acquired the distributor relationships of Johnston Business Forms Inc., Tarentum, Pa., which amount to half of Johnston's business. Business Forms Inc.'s partner distributors assumed Johnston's direct accounts as part of the deal.

Champion Industries Inc., Huntington, W. Va., acquired U.S. Tag and Ticket Co. Inc., Baltimore. U.S. Tag and Ticket was merged with a wholly owned subsidiary of Champion and operates under its own name as a division of Champion. U.S. Tag & Label, an affiliated company, was not involved in the transaction.

Cook Receipt Book Manufacturing Inc., Dothan, Ala., bought the receipt book division of Shorty's Short-Run Forms and Labels, Jacksonville, Fla., a division of Superforms Inc.

Data Documents Inc., Omaha, Neb., acquired Cal Emblem Labels Inc., a Fresno, Calif., provider of pressure sensitive labels, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Data Documents.

East Coast Business Forms Inc. (D), Brentwood, N.Y., bought Accurate Business Systems (D), Brentwood, N.Y.

Eastern Data Graphics (D), Doylestown, Pa., acquired DiTech Graphics, a Houston-based firm that supplies labels to petroleum jobbers. All operations were transferred to Eastern Data Graphics' facilities.

General Credit Forms, St. Louis, acquired Golden Business Forms, which had $4 million in 1994 sales. Golden Business Forms kept its name and operates as a subsidiary of General Credit.

International Paper, Memphis, Tenn., sold Old Colony Envelope, Westfield, Mass., to National Envelope, Long Island City, N.Y. With the acquisition, National Envelope is an authorized envelope converter for International Paper's

Hammermill Papers Division. Also, IP announced in November it would acquire Federal Paper Board Co., which operates two large pulp and paper mills in Augusta, Ga., and Riegelwood, N.C. About 33 percent of the U.S. bleached packaging board market will be under IP's control with the acquisition.

Mail-Well Corp., Englewood, Colo., acquired the assets and certain liabilities of American Envelope, Chicago, a wholly owned subsidiary of CC Industries Inc. The new company is called American Mail-Well Envelope and is based in Englewood, with $450 million in sales, 29 manufacturing facilities and 4,200 employees.

Modern Graphics Inc. (D), Plymouth Meeting, Pa., acquired Aztec Business Systems Inc., Bala Cynwyd, Pa. Arthur Braid, Aztec's president, joined the Modern Graphics sales team.

Noranda Forest Inc., Toronto, bought all outstanding shares of Cross Pointe Paper Corp., St. Paul, Minn., from Pentair Inc. The acquisition moved Noranda Forest into new specialty paper lines and increased its capacity to market existing and new products.

Pacific Data Products Inc. acquired Xircom's network printing product line, which includes Xircom's Pocket Print Server product line and the associated customer base and channel partners. Xircom, Thousand Oaks, Calif., develops and manufactures network access solutions for mobile and remote personal computer users.

Poser® acquired International Business Forms Inc., Little Rock, Ark. IBF kept its name and became a division of Poser. Poser merged its Visalia, Calif., plant with United Image Group. The new company, Poser Forms & Graphics Inc., is headquartered in Reno, Nev. Poser Binder & Index, Arlington, Texas, a division of Poser, Fairhope, Ala., acquired the Looseleaf Division of the Ellis Bindery, one of the largest manufacturers of binders and looseleaf products in the Southwest.

Precept (D), Dallas, acquired Central Ohio Business Forms Inc. (D), Columbus, Ohio. Central Ohio's sales were $8.3 million in 1994.

Reynolds & Reynolds Co., Dayton, Ohio, acquired the assets of Dataforms Inc., a regional business forms manufacturer in Milwaukee, Wis.

The Sidney Co., a Florida-based investment company, had a pending deal to buy Interform Corp., a Bridgeville, Pa. manufacturer, from Guaranty Reassurance Corp., as of Nov. 15.

Standard Forms Inc. (D), Norfolk, Va., acquired Indelible Inc. (D), Norcross, Ga.; Data Formation/Prime Source Group, Norcross, and Creative Business Systems (D), Marietta, Ga. SFI's sales exceed $70 million.

Standard Register, Dayton, Ohio, acquired the assets of FCA, formerly known as Forms Corporation of America, a division of Capital Graphics Inc., a subsidiary of Household International Inc. FCA, with annual sales of $16 million, became a Standard Register plant in March.

Symantec Corp., a Silicon Valley-based software firm, acquired Delrina Corp., a Toronto-based maker of electronic forms software. Delrina's fiscal 1994 sales were approximately $133 million (Canadian) for the year ended June 30.