German packaging industry defies the covid crisis
The number of companies in the packaging industry is declining. The number of employees, on the other hand, has increased since 2015. This is based primarily on the development of companies with 100 to 499 employees. Compared to 2019, the sales values achieved for the products of the packaging industry increased for the most part […]
Transformation Concept Integrated Print Factory (IPF)
The past has shown it time and again. Veritable industry crises are not only catastrophes for the printing industry, but also always spurs for extraordinary innovations. When the internet presumed to substitute digital solutions for everything printed, printers invented online printers. In less than 20 years, this species of company has managed to generate 15 […]
Updated “Corona forecast for the printing industry”: development of GDP and insolvencies
In August 2020 Apenberg & Partner issued the “Corona forecast for the printing industry”. We update this forecast with ACTUAL data from 2020, ACTUAL data from Q1 2021 and an adjusted outlook for the current year 2021. Almost one year later, it can be seen that the course has not been exactly as forecast. Nevertheless, […]
Opportunities of digitalisation in packaging printing – a stocktaking
Digital packaging printing is becoming a decisive factor in the marketing and production workflow. For a successful business, however, not only internal but also external know-how is required. Digital printing entered Gutenberg’s world more than 20 years ago. Because of the diversity in terms of material, application and customer requirements, this happened later in the […]
Purchasing – a declaration of war on one’s own life
In many companies, procurement ekes out a shadowy existence, works separately from the other teams or does not even exist in a professional form. Yet it is undisputed that procurement professionals contribute a large share to profits. So what are the right levers? Profit lies in procurement. This old business rule has lost none of […]
When sales wipe out profit
The year 2019 is drawing to a close and thus many players in the print industry are asking themselves what went well this year and what they should do differently in the future. Apenberg & Partner has a suggestion: take a closer look at your sales. That’s because in recent years we are ever more […]
Anybody afraid of change will find no future in the printing industry.
Whilst one key topic of this year’s symposium was the power of change of platform business models within and outside the printing industry, we once again found: the key difference between online printers and their traditional counterparts is not the products or the technology – it is and stays the attitude!Presentations and talks over the […]
Instruments of strategic future planning – The internal company analysis.
The first part of our services on “Instruments of strategic future planning” addressed market analysis and reports that from experience, companies in general and particularly printers are better informed about their own organisation than about their market setting. Unfortunately this only rarely means that these companies have adequate or even optimal knowledge about their own […]