Apogee acquires CityDocs

Print Solutions

Apogee Corporation has completed the acquisition of the CityDocs group of companies, one of the UK's leading specialist providers of in-house and outsourced print and digital document services.

Based in the City of London with additional operations in London SE1 and Manchester, CityDocs delivers digital document scanning, processing, hosting and full reprographic services on a project or on-going basis.

Jason Collins, Apogee joint CEO, said: ‘CityDocs has a fantastic reputation for secure, responsive and expert specialist services all around the digital or paper document and this is perfectly in line with Apogee's strategy. The quality of service and the 24 hour a day, seven days a week capabilities the CityDocs operations have to support clients is really impressive, and the new eDisclosure technology is clearly the way forward for all professional services, not just legal. This is a terrific business that Peter Lawson and his team have built and I am very excited about how we can develop the business further now it is part of the Apogee group.’

Peter Lawson, CityDocs' managing director, commented: ‘I am very proud of what the team at CityDocs has achieved. We have built a great services focused company and such good relationships with so many of our clients, we have become the partner they can rely upon. Now it is time to take what we have to the next level with Apogee. Our clients will have access to more solutions and the impressive scale and power of Apogee's Managed Services operation, and our specialist digital document services, particularly forensic technology, document processing and eDisclosure will be of great value to Apogee's existing clients.’

This is the third acquisition by Apogee since it secured a significant investment from private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe in September. Acquisitions in Wales and Germany earlier in the year have since been followed by Scotland, Ireland and now City Docs. Apogee will continue to make further strategic acquisitions to drive growth in the UK and Europe.