2 August 2016
Brexit vote shakes confidence reports Printing Outlook
Increased levels of uncertainty in 2016 are evident. There have now been successive quarters in which output forecasts were left high and dry by the harsh reality and expectations for Q3 have been radically downgraded. The latest Printing Outlook survey reveals that whilst just over one-third of printers (35%) maintained output levels in the second quarter of 2016, 31% experienced a fall in output and 34% were able to increase output. The resulting balance (the difference between the ups and the downs) was +3; up from -1 in Q1 but some way below the forecasted balance of +37, and the lowest Q2 balance since 2012.
Download the press release below.
Also in Printing Outlook this quarter:
- Pay Reviews - activity and average % changes.
- Investment - tracking intentions for plant & machinery, training & retraining, product & process innovation and buildings.
- Data on capacity, productivity, costs, margins, investment and more.
- Consumables - paper consumption data and printing ink volumes and values.
Printing Outlook is available (free to BPIF members and £40 to non-members) from the BPIF website using the link below.
Thanks to continued sponsorship from Konica Minolta we oce again sending printed copies of the full report to all respondents and Associate Members.
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