18 August 2016
What effect has Brexit had on your business?
In our endeavour to continue to assess member needs, as identified on Members Day in July, we are planning a more detailed "Brexit Specific" survey, which will be undertaken in early September. We will use that to further inform both our assessment of the impact of the referendum and to tune-up our views on what our sector needs from the negotiations as we move towards triggering the 24 month Article 50 exit process.
Through the G&I Committee, which is an essential means for the BPIF to ensure that its approach to important legislative issues is aligned with member needs, we agreed that our 3 step approach is firstly to ensure that we have a good understanding of the impact of Brexit on member businesses, secondly, to identify the priorities that we need to push for as we enter the new post-EU membership period, and thirdly, to consider the best way to ensure our sector's needs are recognised as policy is decided. Each of these stages is more important than ever as we enter into a period of such significant change.
Our Outlook surveys are an extremely important tool in helping the BPIF understand changes in business expectations. Individual company experiences feed into an overall picture of what's happening in our diverse sector and, we in turn feed this information into Government and other industry representative bodies such as the CBI, where the picture across different sectors is aggregated. It's become increasingly clear just how important these qualitative "opinion" surveys are in supplementing the statistical analysis that the Government and Bank of England undertake.
Therefore we would appreciate you sparing some time to complete the survey when it is launched to enable us to collate your views
Pay Review Data, Wage Benchmarking and Cost of Living – FEB 2024 UPDATE
14 February 2024
We have collated data from multiple sources that should be useful for BPIF members that are approaching internal pay reviews, and/or are having a closer look at their pay and benefits structure. The datafile, first published in February 2023, has been updated with the latest available data - and additional content on factors exerting pressure on pay settlements in 2024.
Slight recovery of output and orders falls short of expectations in Q4 - confidence concerns mount in 2024
22 February 2024
Performance in the UK's printing and printed packaging industry did improve in Q4, as far as output and orders are concerned. However, it didn't come close to what would historically be considered the seasonal norm, nor quite match the subdued expectations for Q4.
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