BPIF claims confidence returning to UK

The BPIF’s Printing Outlook quarterly survey of British printing companies has shown that output and orders for the last quarter of last year surpassed expectations and that printers expect the first quarter of this year to continue this trend.

Roughly 56 percent of those surveyed increased their output levels in the final quarter of 2015, while a further 29 percent managed stable output levels in Q4. However, it should be noted that this followed a drop in orders in the third quarter.

For the first quarter of this year, around 46 percent expect to increase output levels, with some 41 percent predicting that output levels will remain the same and 13 percent expecting output to decline in Q1. Despite this, almost two-thirds (63%) believe that the general state of trade in the industry will remain unchanged with only 24 percent believing that trading conditions will improve.

Printers continue to worry about competitors pricing below cost and about the difficulty of finding skilled workers.

Posted

in

by

Nessan Cleary

Tags:

Syndicate content

You can license the articles from Printing and Manufacturing Journal to reproduce in other publications. I generally charge around £150 per article but I’m open to discussing this for each title, particularly for publishers that want to use multiple stories. I can provide high res versions of images for print publications.

I’m used to working with overseas publishers and am registered for VAT with the UK’s HMRC tax authority but obviously won’t charge VAT to companies outside the UK. You can find further details and a licensing form from this page, or just contact me directly here.

Support this site

If you find the stories here useful then please consider making a donation to help fund Printing and Manufacturing Journal, either as a one-off or a repeat payment. Journalism is only really useful if it’s truly independent and this is the only such news source serving the print/ manufacturing sectors.

However, there are costs involved in travelling to cover events, as well as maintaining this site, not to mention the time that it takes to carry out research, check facts and interview people. So if you value this work, then please help to maintain it and keep it free to read.

Subscribe

Never miss a story – subscribe to Printing and Manufacturing Journal to receive an email notification every time an article is published here. It’s completely free of charge and you can cancel the subscription at any point without any hassle. There’s no need to provide any information other than an email address and subscribers details are not for sale so there’s no risk of any further marketing spam.

Related stories

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *