Saturday, 11 October 2025

Global mergers and acquisitions activity has soared to record-breaking levels, with almost $4tn of deals agreed since the start of the year.

In the UK, the Office of National Statistics released statistics yesterday which show a “notable increase” in M&As, with overseas companies spending £27.7 billion on acquiring British businesses in Q2 – which is £19.4 billion higher than Q1. The value of domestic M&A (UK companies acquiring other UK companies) was £10.6 billion in Q2 2021, an increase of £6.1 billion on previous quarter.

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An international trade body has welcomed a new report that paves the way to ‘significant’ opportunity and growth for packaging holography technologies.

The International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA) was commenting on The Future of Anti-Counterfeiting, Brand Protection and Security Packaging to 2026* report. According to its findings, brand protection, track and trace and other anti-counterfeiting technologies in packaging are increasing in use as global economies wrestle with a post-Covid world.

Growth in packaging security devices appears ‘strong and potentially lucrative’, the IHMA says, in the face of a report that predicts increasing incidences of global counterfeiting alongside heightened awareness of tracing technologies.

The demand for anti-theft, product authentication, tamper-evidence and track and trace components will continue to grow even in static US and European markets for packaging. In 2020, the pandemic and the rise of e-commerce trading spearheaded a rise in fake goods. For example, cosmetics and personal care saw reports of a 56% increase in counterfeit products sold online.

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  2. Varonis Announces Data Classification Cloud for Box and Google Drive
  3. ConnectWise Introduces Amy Lucia as Chief Marketing Officer
  4. DigiCert Announces New Trust Solutions Partner Program
  5. Permanent CEO appointed to lead the UK Cyber Security Council
  6. Datadobi’s Migration Performance and Expansion Plans for the Data Management Market Analyzed in New 451 Research Market Insight Report
  7. Construction Sites to depend more on Monitored Tech for security
  8. Exabeam Appoints IT Channel Veteran James Anderson as Area Vice President, EMEA Channels
  9. Acronis announces training partnership with qSkills
  10. Unmanaged personal devices could wreak havoc with the return to school, Armis study finds
  11. Afghanistan Appeal for Veterans’ Mental Health Working in Security
  12. ThycoticCentrify Enhances DevOps Security with Certificate-Based Authentication and Configurable Time-to-Live for All Cloud Platforms
  13. Arqit and Babcock sign collaboration agreement for government and defence market
  14. Appgate Named a Leader Among Zero Trust Network Access Providers in Report by Independent Research Firm
  15. Beyond Identity selects Ignition Technology to drive channel expansion in the Nordics and Benelux



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