9 June 2014

What is Printing Outlook?

The next Printing Outlook survey will go live on Tuesday 1st July - if you get an email asking for your participation please help us help you by responding as soon as you can. Ten minutes of your time is all that we're asking for.

What is Printing Outlook?
The BPIF's quarterly printing industry trends survey. It covers topics such as - your top business concerns, orders, output, price levels, capacity, costs, margins, investment, pay reviews, productivity, late payment and payment terms, public sector procurement, web to print and paper & board prices and supply.

As well as reporting on the BPIF's latest quarterly survey of trends in the printing industry, Printing Outlook also incorporates:

• UK headline economic data 
• CBI forecasts and assessment
• Paper and board sector commentary and a price index
• Energy sector commentary from Schneider Electric 
• The latest print and packaging Red Flag Statistics compiled especially for the BPIF by Begbies Traynor 
• Insolvency statistics for the printing sector 
• Advertising sector data and analysis from the Advertising Association / Warc Expenditure Report and the IPA Bellwether Report

Why should you participate?
We know that our members are concerned about some or all of the topics covered in Printing Outlook; responding to the survey will enable us provide information back to you that will help you make better informed decisions about your business.

Members regularly contact us with requests for current industry research. Here's what one member had to say about Printing Outlook:

"Just a note to thank you, this info is spot on and I am sure will be a great help to my customer. This will help us in securing a sizeable contract. Thanks once again, very much appreciated."

Printing Outlook is widely reported in the trade press and feeds into the Bank of England and their provision of data to the Monetary Policy Committee. It is required reading for many suppliers to and investors in the industry, and is used by the BPIF to help represent the interests of our industry to other trade associations, the CBI, Government and the European and worldwide printing industries.

Action
The survey is live during the first two weeks of January, April, July and October. Look out for the emails inviting you to participate and spare the 10 minutes or so it takes to complete the online survey. One contact at each company is asked for their input - if you're not receiving any emails please contact Kyle Jardine, BPIF Research Manager.

Follow the link below for further information and to download current and back issues.