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Global Graphics PLC: Global Graphics Completes the Sale of URW Type Foundry GmbH

Global Graphics PLC: Global Graphics Completes the Sale of URW Type Foundry GmbH



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GLOBAL GRAPHICS COMPLETES THE SALE OF URW TYPE FOUNDRY GMBH

Cambridge (UK), 29 May 2020: Global Graphics PLC (Euronext: GLOG) announces today that it has completed the sale of URW Type Foundry GmbH to Monotype GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Monotype Imaging Inc.

About Global Graphics

Through its operating subsidiaries, (Euronext Brussels: GLOG) is a leading developer of platforms for digital inkjet printing. Customers include press manufacturers such as HP, Canon, Durst, Roland, Hymmen and Mark Andy.  Global Graphics PLC is headquartered in Cambridge UK.  Its subsidiary companies are printing software developers ; the industrial printhead driver solutions specialists, ; and the pre-press software specialists .

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