The most comprehensive quarterly private sector survey report on the Australian printing industry. It covers economic indicators such as business expectations, capital expenditure intentions, production, net profit, employment and overtime, production costs, selling price, material stock and outstanding debtors.

Australian Printing Industry Trends
How is your sector of the printing and graphics industry performing? What are the trends in prices, orders, labour supply? Is it time to make investments in capital equipment? What are other sectors doing?

These are among the dozens of questions Printing Industries asks members each quarter to help compile quarterly overviews of your industry.

The results form the basis for Industry Trends which provides an overview of each quarterly report and allows you to compare it with previous quarters.

This is essential reading for companies wanting to keep abreast of industry trends and to ensure that your business remains competitive.

Order your own full copy of Printing Industry Trends which includes extensive sectorial information together with graphs, summary tables and charts illustrating the statistics.

Below are partial summaries in PDF format of the most recent quarterly reports. Printing Industries members can use their Member login to access free of charge the Industry Trends report archive (top right) for full versions of previous reports.

Cost:
Individual copies: Members: $20; Non Members: $40

Annual Subscription (4 reports): Members: $60; Non Members: $120

Current Edition: March 2008

March Quarter 2008 - Highlights

n Reduced orders and production n Reduced sales and net profits n Increased employment and overtime levels n Reduced selling prices n Increased investment in plant and machinery n Finance and harder to obtain n Labour harder to obtain n  Reduced levels of material stocks n Increases across all cost categories; and n Increased outstanding debtors

Printing Industry Trends report can be ordered two ways:

Single Report (current quarter report available)

Subscription (4 quarter trends report)

March 2008 Quarter Summary (pdf - 498.8 kb)

December 2007 Quarter Summary (pdf - 356.6 kb)

September 2007 Quarter Summary (pdf - 361.6 kb)

June 2007 Quarter Summary (pdf - 363.5 kb)

March 2007 Quarter Summary (pdf - 355.6 kb)

December 2006 Quarter Summary (pdf - 378.4 kb)

September 2006 Quarter Summary  (pdf - 374.8 kb)

March 2006 Quarter Summary (pdf - 373.7 kb)

June 2006 Quarter Summary (pdf - 379.1 kb)