A closer look at the factors impacting buying — and selling — wide-format operations in 2025.
Unless you’ve been enjoying a stay under a very nice proverbial rock — or this is your very first time ever reading an article in Wide-format Impressions — the term “convergence” won’t be new. The past few years have seen the pace of mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, sales, generational hand-offs, tuck-ins, and more across the entirety of the print industry as the number of shops continues to decrease, even as the types of projects each shop takes on increases.
Fueling that convergence is the beating heart of buying and selling businesses — mergers and acquisitions (M&A). But beyond just the general trends impacting print and communications, what’s really driving M&A activity in the wide-format space, in particular?
Here is a closer look at five trends shaping the composition of our industry right now, and what it will look like in the future.
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