Direct Marketing Solutions Acquires Johnson & Quin

JTS Acquires AM Solutions

February 10, 2025

Marketing & Advertising

JTS, an integrated marketing services provider, has acquired AM Solutions, a Madison-area direct mail and printing specialist, and simultaneously relaunched its corporate brand (dropping "Direct") to reflect expanded capabilities. The deal keeps AM Solutions' Edgerton facility fully operational and brings high-speed inkjet, large-format printing, and intelligent inserting capabilities into JTS’s service offering to strengthen its direct mail, print, digital and data-driven marketing solutions.

Main Street Capital Makes Follow-On Investments in Direct Marketing Solutions and Heritage Vet Partners

January 6, 2022

Marketing & Advertising

Main Street Capital Corporation completed $15.8 million of follow-on investments across two existing portfolio companies: $9.5 million in Direct Marketing Solutions, Inc. to support DMS’s acquisition of a Freedom, Pennsylvania direct-mail production plant from Mailing Services of Pittsburgh, Inc., and $6.3 million in Nebraska Vet AcquireCo, LLC (dba Heritage Vet Partners) to support Heritage’s acquisitions of Ironsides Animal Health PLLC and St. Anna Veterinary Clinic, S.C. The investments were structured as additional first‑lien, senior secured term loans and build on Main Street’s prior financings in DMS (2018) and Heritage (December 2020).

Sun Print Solutions Acquires Plumb Marketing

March 21, 2024

Manufacturing

Sun Print Solutions of Salt Lake City, Utah has acquired Plumb Marketing, a Denver-based direct mail and commercial printing company. The transaction, arranged by Graphic Arts Advisors, will expand Sun Print Solutions' geographic footprint and capacity — including enhanced political print and mail capabilities — while Plumb Marketing's owners (the Epps) will remain engaged during the transition.

DirectMail2.0 Acquires Who's Mailing What!

May 1, 2024

Marketing & Advertising

DirectMail2.0 has acquired Who's Mailing What!, a 40-year-old direct mail performance and insights tracking platform, to create the largest AI-powered direct mail database in the United States and accelerate its DM20.ai initiative. Both companies will continue to operate from Clearwater, Florida, with leadership changes at WMW to integrate the teams and scale the combined data and AI capabilities.

Direct Marketing Solutions Acquires Mailing Services of Pittsburgh's Freedom, PA Plant Assets

January 5, 2022

Marketing & Advertising

Direct Marketing Solutions (DMS) has acquired the plant assets of Mailing Services of Pittsburgh (MSP) in Freedom, Pennsylvania, which will operate as DMS East. The acquisition expands DMS's printing, envelope manufacturing, lettershop and postal logistics capacity, creating a bi‑coastal footprint to deliver faster, coast‑to‑coast direct marketing campaigns.

J2 Global Completes Four Q3 2021 Acquisitions and a Divestiture

October 5, 2021

Media & Entertainment

J2 Global, Inc. (later renamed Ziff Davis) completed four small acquisitions — Solutelia, BigLinker, Diabetes Daily and Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency — during Q3 2021 to broaden its customer base, enter new markets and expand its product and content offerings. The company also divested a group of B2B cloud-based backup businesses operating under the LiveVault, OffsiteDataSync and KeepItSafe brands; terms were not disclosed and the deals were described as immaterial to overall financials.