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New print business on the horizon
What has the newish year brought you so far? Reports to me at the beginning of February suggest that we are mostly off to a slow start! However, we have noticed a much higher level of activity with enquiries and quotations, which added to various guru predictions of some TV advertising going back ‘below the line’, could lead to quite a lot more work about in 2007.
This does not mean ‘whoopee’. Alas, because overcapacity remains, margins are being kept low, but at least the cake should be a little bigger. GDP growth forecast of 2.4 to 2.6 per cent with interest rates up at the beginning of the year, falling back later should promote growth provided everything else remains stable. As we all know, it does not take much to start the balls falling out of the air! Government spending must be reined in otherwise the soaring tax burden will really damage the economy. Keep up the value added, keep on top of your debtors and energy costs and you should be on the way to a reasonable year.
DSPA Awards sponsorship
Autosigns starts the DSPA Awards (17 October 2007) ball rolling with sponsorship and entries are already being registered. Autosigns, the Leicester based automotive PoS company has put up sponsorship for the Young Trainee Printer of the Year award in both Screen and Digital disciplines.
Each winner (who must have been in the industry for less than three years) will receive a smart looking award and a cheque for £250. Managing director, Ole Rasmussen, rightly says that if we do not encourage young people into the industry it will die from the top down and printing will be left for other countries to do for us. Good quality training is still available in the UK but if it is not used, that too will disappear for good.
DSPA Seminars
Watch out for the first of the ‘Digital Shootout’ competitions and much more. Make a date in your diary now: 25 April (Warrington) and 26 April (Oxford).
Please don’t forget to visit our web site (www.dspa.co.uk) often. It’s well worth a look and might prove valuable to your business. The Forum also makes interesting reading. Who knows, you might find something you want, get rid of something you don’t want anymore or even learn something new.
DSPA UK – working behind the scenes to keep screen and digital printers going!
www.dspa.co.uk – info@dspa.co.uk
