Label survey to collect industry insights

Label converters are invited to enter a Benchmarking Programme to compare their performance with others across the industry and pinpoint areas for improvement.

3 September, 2014

Alliance targets AusPost

Industry groups and trade unions are banding together in an alliance to lobby the government to keep Australia Post in check.

1 September, 2014

Canon ready for Impact

Exhibitors are on their mark to kick off the Visual Impact show in Sydney next week, with wide format technologies, experts and consumables flying in to Sydney Olympic Park.

1 September, 2014

PMP cuts deliver small profit

Cost cuts have delivered a small profit for PMP, despite declines in directory volumes and lagging sales from a soft retail market.

1 September, 2014

TLC locked out

Sydney laminating outfit TLC Print Finishing has been locked out of its facility, unable to pay its rent and struggling to find a buyer.

1 September, 2014

Oki eyes Australian expansion

Oki is set to take a fresh approach to the Australian market, with production print an intended target of expansion alongside other verticals.

1 September, 2014

Spicers buys Total in wide format expansion

Spicers is expanding its reach in the New Zealand sign and display market, acquiring wide format supplier Total Supply.

1 September, 2014

Salmat profit falls 98%

Vulnerable to retail’s ups and downs, catalogue and marketing specialist Salmat has suffered a 98 per cent slide in profit after tax at $800,000 in FY14, despite increased catalogue volumes.

1 September, 2014

News boss: Falling revenues our fault

Newspapers are reporting more readers than ever across print and digital platforms, but News Corp CEO Julian Clarke admits that media buyers are not biting, and newspapers have themselves to blame. Some 16.4 million readers now make up the newspaper audience, in print and digital, according to the industry’s Enhanced Media Metrics Australia (emma) readership survey’s first year-on-year report.

1 September, 2014

Turnbull: prepare for digital

Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull is backing journalism as critical to Australia’s democracy and ‘our free way of life,’ but is ambivalent about whether it comes from digital or print.

1 September, 2014