eds.group

The EDS Group was founded in 1992 as Euro-Druckservice AG in Passau, Germany, and has grown over the years to include additional printing plants in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The result was a large company that has been printing for you for more than 30 years.

  • New KBA Rapida 145 for Typos
    2024
    Typos takes delivery of a new KBA Rapida 145
  • Jet Investment acquires eds.group
    2022
    Deutsche Private Equity (DPE) has sold Euro-Druckservice GmbH (eds.group) to Jet Investment. The transaction is expected to close in March 2022.
  • New 48 pp machine for Svoboda
    2020
    Svoboda Press takes delivery of a new manroland 48 page press
  • New Lithoman S for Severotisk
    2019
    Severotisk takes delivery of a new, horizontal manroland 48 page press
  • Acquisition of Mega Press
    2018
    The entire printing business of Mega Press Holdings is acquried by eds Romania
  • New 7b 5c+L for PASSAVIA
    2018
    PASSAVIA takes delivery of a new 7b Heidelberg printing press to reinforce the focus on 7b format, entry into packaging printing
  • Two new 72pp
    2017
    Commissioning of two KBA Compacta C818 72pp at the Eurodruk-Poznań and Zrinyi locations
  • Acquired by DPE
    2017
    DPE acquires eds.group. DPE's goal is to actively support entrepreneurial management teams in order to drive growth in its investments. Kartesia supports the acquisition.
  • Acquisition of IPress
    2016
    Acquisition of Hungary's second-largest print shop IPress Center (IPC) to improve publishing and catalogue printing in Hungary
  • Management buy-out at Holzmann
    2014
    Management buy-out at Holzmann Druck GmbH & Co. KG by the local management at the end of August 2014
  • Financial restructuring and change of ownership
    2013
    The new owners of eds.group are Altercap (advised by Kartesia), European Capital and Darby Private Equity.
  • Sale of LVDS
    2009
    Sale of the coldset print shop LVDS Wels in Austria to Moser Holding. Concentration of activities on sheet-fed and heatset offset
  • Establishment of eds Romania
    2008
    Establishment of eds Romania (web-fed offset printing) as a further expansion step in Southeast Europe (fourth greenfield investment of the eds.group).
  • New 64pp for Svoboda
    2008
    New manroland 64pp for Svoboda Press Prague
  • VGP sells, 3i acquires
    2007
    Sale of the entire eds.group by Verlagsgruppe Passau to the private equity fund 3i, London and the management.
  • Acquisition of Zrínyi
    2007
    Entry into the Hungarian market by acquiring the Zrínyi Nyomda web-fed offset print shop in Budapest
  • Acquisition of Svoboda
    2006
    Start of the next expansion step in the web-fed offset segment in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe with the purchase of the Svoboda print shop in Prague, the largest print shop in the Czech Republic.
  • New construction of Typos
    2004
    New construction of the Pilsen print shop with over 13,000sqm in the Borska Pole industrial zone. Investment in a 6-unit format for envelope production, investment in a continuous printing press for mailing contract printing. (third greenfield investment of eds.group).
  • Establishment of Eurodruk-Poznań
    1999
    Establishment of Eurodruk-Poznań (web-fed offset printing) as a critical step for expansion in Poland (second greenfield investment of eds.group).
  • PASSAVIA Druckservice
    1998
    Merger between Passavia and Neue Presse Druckservice GmbH to form PASSAVIA Druckservice GmbH & Co. KG. Relocation of Passavia to Passau Sperrwies. Joint market presence of the three German-speaking sheet-fed print shops (Passavia, Holzmann, Landesverlag) under the brand just-print-it.com
  • Two sheet-fed print shops again
    1997
    Acquisition of the German sheet-fed print shops Holzmann Druck, Bad Wörishofen and PASSAVIA, Passau, founded in 1888
  • Eurodruk-Kraków
    1997
    Start of sheet-fed printing activities in Poland with the purchase and establishment of the sheet-fed print shop Eurodruk-Kraków
  • Acquisition of NPD and LVDS
    1996
    The shareholders of eds.group bring Neue Presse Druckservice Passau (sheet-fed offset printing) and the Austrian Landesverlag Druckservice (sheet-fed offset in Linz and rotary printing in Wels) into the eds.group.
  • Establishment of Severotisk
    1994
    Establishment of the North Bohemian web-fed offset print shop Severotisk in Ústí nad Labem (first greenfield investment of eds.group) with a focus on “horizontal” press formats
  • Acquisition of Typos
    1992
    In the same year, investment in the West Bohemian print shop Typos (forms and commercial printing) in Pilsen as part of the privatisation process in the Czech Republic.
  • Establishment as Euro-Druckservice AG
    1992
    Establishment of Euro-Druckservice AG (eds.group) as the future umbrella company for all printing activities (with the exception of the newspaper print shops) of Verlagsgruppe Passau.