Quarterly Trends Survey

The most comprehensive quarterly private sector survey report on the Australian printing industry. It covers economic indicators such as business expectations, capital expenditure intentions, capacity utilisation rates, production and sales, 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 employment, orders, sales, costs, selling prices and profitability, finance or labour supply? What is happening to capacity utilisation levels and is it time to make investments in capital equipment? Or what are other sectors doing?

These are among the 21 key questions Printing Industries asks industry members each quarter to help compile quarterly overviews of your industry.

The results form the basis for Printing 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 information covering national, state, sectoral and size of establishment results together with graphs and charts illustrating the key industry 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: September 2009

December Quarter 2009 - Highlights

Key September 2009 quarter developments include:

  • Increased orders and production;
  • Increased sales and net profits;
  • Reduced employment but increased overtime levels;educed selling prices;
  • Reduced investments in buildings and no change reported in plant and machinery;
  • Finance reported harder to obtain;
  • Labour reported easier to obtain
  • Reduced levels of material stocks;
  • Moderate material and wage cost pressures;
  • Increased number of outstanding debtors.

Printing Industry Trends report can be ordered two ways:

Single Report (current quarter report available)

Subscription (4 quarter trends report)

Related Files
Download December 2009 Quarter Summary December 2009 Quarter Summary (pdf - 453.2 kb)

Download September 2009 Quarter Summary September 2009 Quarter Summary (pdf - 585.8 kb)

Download June 2009 Quarter Summary June 2009 Quarter Summary (pdf - 357.5 kb)

Download March 2009 Quarter Summary March 2009 Quarter Summary (pdf - 494 kb)

Download December 2008 Quarter Summary December 2008 Quarter Summary (pdf - 508.1 kb)

Download September 2008 Quarter Summary September 2008 Quarter Summary (pdf - 482.6 kb)

Download June 2008 Quarter Summary June 2008 Quarter Summary (pdf - 471.9 kb)

Download March 2008 Quarter Summary March 2008 Quarter Summary (pdf - 498.8 kb)

Download December 2007 Quarter Summary December 2007 Quarter Summary (pdf - 356.6 kb)

Download September 2007 Quarter Summary September 2007 Quarter Summary (pdf - 361.6 kb)

Download June 2007 Quarter Summary June 2007 Quarter Summary (pdf - 363.5 kb)

Download March 2007 Quarter Summary March 2007 Quarter Summary (pdf - 355.6 kb)

Download December 2006 Quarter Summary December 2006 Quarter Summary (pdf - 378.4 kb)

Download September 2006 Quarter Summary September 2006 Quarter Summary  (pdf - 374.8 kb)

Download March 2006 Quarter Summary March 2006 Quarter Summary (pdf - 373.7 kb)

Download June 2006 Quarter Summary June 2006 Quarter Summary (pdf - 379.1 kb)





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