In-plant Purchasing Decisions in a Recession

To begin the survey, we wanted to gauge where print revenues were prior to the economic crisis, and gain insight into where things were headed in the future. The year 2008 started out as a relatively healthy one for much of the printing industry. Nevertheless, the economic events that occurred in the latter half of the year inevitably took a toll on the industry. With that time frame in mind, we asked respondents to compare their facility's 2008 revenue from printing services with their 2007 year-end revenue results. In-plants reported a mean decline of approximately 0.4 percent for 2008.