RRD announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Advent to acquire Williams Lea, a provider of tech-enabled business support services to financial, legal and professional services firms worldwide. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025, pending regulatory clearance and customary closing conditions. Through the acquisition, Williams Lea will join RRD’s Digital, Creative and Business Support Services segment to further strengthen and expand its position as a transformation partner for business support and productivity solutions. This investment also complements the segment’s digital marketing capabilities that include a suite of full-funnel media, measurement and proprietary marketing technology offerings. Williams Lea is trusted by global clients to transform business processes in complex and highly regulated environments. Williams Lea clients will benefit from RRD’s client-centric approach, global reach and focus on leading technology. Williams Lea will maintain its brand name as part of RRD.

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG) is extending its portfolio for industrial digital printing and integrating postpress solutions from C.P. Bourg and Tecnau into its Jetfire 50 ecosystem. HEIDELBERG has entered into…

Landa Digital Printing has begun a new era under the ownership of FIMI – but the business will now continue without its charismatic founder Benny Landa, who has stepped down. The acquisition of Landa Digital Printing (LDP) by FIMI, Israel’s biggest private equity firm, has been finalised with all technicalities completed after its rescue deal gained court approval earlier this month. FIMI has appointed three of its representatives as the new board with Richard Klapholz taking on the role of executive chairman alongside FIMI colleagues Gillon Beck and Roi Gazit. Klapholz said FIMI was excited about LDP’s potential, and the group planned to build a “strong, enduring industrial company”. Of founder Benny Landa, he said: “Benny is the inventor of the technology and the forever founder of the technology. “We have received his blessing and he has supported the arrangement in the court, but Benny no longer has a function in the company. We will continue to consult with him and meet with him – in fact he came by last week to celebrate Jewish New Year with us – and so the relationship will continue, but we are in a new era.”