RR Donnelley acquires StratusGroup

RR Donnelley has acquired StratusGroup, an Ohio, USA-based manufacturer of custom pressure sensitive label and paperboard packaging products for health and beauty, food, beverage and other segments.

‘With the exponential growth in media choices available to consumers, point-of-purchase packaging plays an increasingly important role in our customers' marketing mixes,’ said John Paloian, RR Donnelley’s chief operating officer. ‘StratusGroup’s superb decorative labeling and paperboard resources offer an excellent complement to our prime label, corrugated and other global packaging capabilities. Its location is also ideal, with its facility in close proximity to RR Donnelley kitting and fulfillment centers. We anticipate being able to immediately expand StratusGroup’s utilization and to offer its customers even more extensive integrated solutions.’

StratusGroup offers UV flexography, UV offset, UV rotary, digital and conventional offset for a range of custom products, including folding carton, insert and multi-pack. It also offers labels for bottles and last year worked with alcoholic beverage company Seagram on design and custom labeling for the rebranding of its flavored cooler line.

‘Over the course of nearly two decades, StratusGroup has been serving customers with innovative capabilities and exceptional quality,’ said StratusGroup president Robert Curran. ‘As a part of RR Donnelley, we will offer our customers an even broader range of resources and draw on its world class fulfillment and logistics capabilities to deliver even more complete solutions.’

RR Donnelley's international packaging services include packaging design, print production, finishing, assembly, pack-out and other capabilities. The company provides packaging and labels to producers of medical products, electronics, food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, and industrial products. In September RR Donnelley completed the acquisition of Genesis Packaging & Design, a provider of custom packaging.

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