Merrill Acquires Daniels Printing

Merrill Corp. of St. Paul, Minn. has acquired Daniels Printing of Boston. The deal makes Daniels, an 118-year-old company which had been family-owned, part of a public company. The new company will be called Merrill/Daniels. Merrill hopes that the acquisition will shore up its New England operations. Daniels, with over $68 million in revenue in 1998, is the fourth largest financial printer in the U.S. and has 375 employees. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.