North Bay Business Journal

The two largest wine label printing companies in the North Coast have been expanding through acquisition, organic growth and equipment upgrades in the past year and a half as sales of wine bottles have been accelerating.

NAPA — Tapp Label Technologies Inc., a printer of wine and spirits labels from plants in Napa and Canada, today said it acquired Ben Franklin Press & Label Co. of Napa.

NAPA — Wine label printer Tapp Technologies Inc. today said it plans to expand its California plant in Napa to a nearby facility this fall to “significantly” increase capacity.

PETALUMA — Paragon Label has acquired a digital offset label printing press to meet increasing demand from vintners for easily customizable novel or exclusive packaging.

NAPA — Nine years after opening as a printer of pressure-sensitive labels specifically for the wine industry, Tapp sees the need to be closer to its client wineries and packaging designers, according to Matt Schwanebeck, operations manager for the Napa plant and architect of Tapp’s printing plant for the past five years.