Today’s price is up at 99c, valuing the company at just over $50m. Opus was a private equity backed enterprise, with the Knox Private Equity fund in New Zealand used to buy a succession of businesses in Australia, including Ligare Printing and Cactus Imaging.

More recently it engineered a reverse takeover of McPherson’s and promptly installed a new HP high speed inkjet printer into the company, which chairman Bill Mackarell says will bring book printing back into Australia.

Knox is holding just under half the stock, at 46 per cent, with Richard Ligare, former owner of Ligare Printing holding some 14 per cent. Current CEO Cliff Brigstocke has 3 per cent, with the remaining 37 per cent in the hands of institutions and retail investors.

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