July 2010 Quarterly Business Conditions Report
WhatTheyThink.com
August 1, 2010 73 Pages - SKU: WTTK2765201
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| This 73-page report provides the results of the Economics and Research Center’s June 2010 survey of print business owners, and compares these results to past quarterly surveys to provide an accurate gauge of how print businesses professionals perceive the economic landscape, how those perceptions are changing, and what actions they are likely to take in response to challenging economic times. In addition to our own survey results, we provide the most current data available on printing industry shipments and profits, employment, and other economic indicators.
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- Economic Forecast in a Nutshell
- Introduction
- How This Report Is Organized
- For More Information
- Section 1: Prevailing Q2 Business Conditions
- Current Business Conditions
- June 2010 Survey Results
- March 2010 Survey Results
- Expected Business Conditions
- June Survey Results
- March 2010 Survey Results
- Business Conditions Index
- Prevailing Economic Conditions
- GDP
- Proprietors’ Income
- Corporate Cash Flow
- Personal Income
- Employment and Unemployment
- Consumer Confidence
- Consumer Price Index
- Leading Indicators
- Employment Cost Index
- Small Business Optimism Index
- Graphic Communications Industry Economic Trends
- Graphic Designers
- Graphic Arts Employment
- Printing Industry Shipments and Profits
- The Bottom Lines
- Printing Industry Forecast
- Section 2: Books of Business, Chicago, and iPads—A Miscellany
- Book of Business
- That Toddlin’ Town
- Left to Their Own Devices Redux
- Section 3: Conclusions and Recommendations
- The Shows Must Go On
- Kindles, Pads and Nooks
- iAd
- Location-Based Apps—The Next Big Thing or Not Much Ado About Nothing?
- Whither E-Mail?
- Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, the Economy
- It Was Worse Than We Thought
- The U.S.’s Lost Decade
- Dr. Joe’s Economic Indicators
- Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
- Looking Forward
- About the Analyst
- Table of Figures
- Figure 1: In terms of your revenues at this location, how has the first half of 2010 compared to the first half of 2009? —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 2: In terms of your revenues at this location, how has the rate of business for first three months of 2010 compared to 2009? —All print providers, March 2010
- Figure 3: Do you expect 2010 revenues compared to 2009 to providers, June 2010
- Figure 4: Do you expect 2010 revenues compared to 2009 to —All print providers, March 2010
- Figure 5: Business Conditions Index (BCI) for all printing establishments,March 2008-June 2010
- Figure 6: Y/Y % change in real GDP, Q1 2000-Q1 2010
- Figure 7: Gross Domestic Product, Q1 2000-Q1 2010 (billions of current dollars)
- Figure 8: Proprietors’ income, Q1 2000-Q1 2010,(billions of current dollars)
- Figure 9: Net corporate cash flow, Q1 2000-Q1 2010,(billions of current dollars)
- Figure 10: Personal income, Q1 2000-Q1 2010,(billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates)
- Figure 11: “Official” unemployment rate vs. broadest definition of unemployment, Dec. 2007-Apr. 2010
- Figure 12: Consumer Confidence Index (1985=100),January 2005-June 2010
- Figure 13: Consumer Price Index (1982-1984=100),January 2005-March 2010
- Figure 14: The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Indicators Index (2004=100), January 2008-June 2010
- Figure 15: Employment Cost Index (December 2005=100),Q1 2006-Q1 2010
- Figure 16: Small Business Optimism Index (1986=100)
- Figure 17: AIGA Design Leaders Confidence Index (April 2005=100),2005-2010
- Figure 18: Current-dollar U.S. printing and print services shipments (M3 series for NAICS 323, in $ million)
- Figure 19: Inflation-adjusted U.S. printing and print services shipments (M3 series for NAICS 323, in $ million) with June-December 2010 forecast
- Figure 20: U.S. commercial printing shipments (inflation-adjusted), January-May 2010 ($ million)
- Figure 21: U.S. commercial printing shipments —January to May 2006 to 2010 ($ billion)
- Figure 22: Has this location been part of a merger or acquisition, or purchased or sold a “book of business” or “customer base” in the last 18 months? —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 23: Is this business actively seeking to purchase the “book of business” or “customer base” of another business in the next 18 months? —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 24: Is this business actively seeking to sell its “book of business” or “customer base” of another business in the next 18 months? —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 25: In relation to this year’s Graph Expo to be held this October in Chicago, does your company responses permitted)
- Figure 26: Which of the following devices do you own for your personal or business use? (multiple responses permitted) —All print providers, March 2010
- Figure 27: We have an iPad and are concentrating on developing applications and content for it for customers —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 28: We do not have an iPad but are able to develop content that is compatible with it —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 29: We will add iPad capabilities as a strategy to draw new customers to our print capabilities —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 30: It’s just one of many content channels that we are able to develop for —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 31: If we worked with clients to make their content iPad-friendly, we
- would use freelance resources —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 32: The iPad is not applicable to our business as an opportunity —All
- print providers, June 2010
- Figure 33: We’re focused on print alone as a core specialty because that’s
- what we do best —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 34: Our customers have no interest in the iPad and neither do we — All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 35: We’ve never heard of the iPad —All print providers, June 2010
- Figure 36: “To what extent are you familiar with geolocation applications like Foursquare and Gowalla that you can access on a mobile phone?”(Base: U.S. online adults)
- Figure 37: E-mail open rates, 2007-2009
- Figure 38: Job Growth by Decade, 1940s-2000s
- Table of Tables
- Table 1: In terms of your revenues at this location, how has the first half of 2010 compared to the first half of 2009? —Print providers by employee size, June 2010
- Table 2: In terms of your revenues at this location, how has the rate of business for first three months of 2010 compared to 2009? —Print providers by employee size, March 2010
- Table 3: Do you expect 2010 revenues compared to 2009 to providers by employee size, June 2010
- Table 4: Do you expect 2010 revenues compared to 2009 to —Print providers by employee size, March 2010
- Table 5: Monthly unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted), 1995-2010
- Table 6: Y/Y graphic arts employment (1,000s of workers), May/June 2010 vs. May/June 2009
- Table 7: ERC forecast of printing industry shipments—2010-2016 ($2009)
- Table 8: Has this location been part of a merger or acquisition, or purchased or sold a “book of business” or “customer base” in the last 18 months? —All print providers, June 2010
- Table 9: In relation to this year’s Graph Expo to be held this October in Chicago, does your company 2010 (multiple responses permitted)
- Table 10: We have an iPad and are concentrating on developing applications and content for it for customers —Print providers by employee size, June 2010
- Table 11: We do not have an iPad but are able to develop content that is compatible with it —Print providers by employee size, June 2010
- Table 12: We will add iPad capabilities as a strategy to draw new customers to our print capabilities —Print providers by employee size, June 2010
- Table 13: It’s just one of many content channels that we are able to develop for —Print providers by employee size, June 2010
- Table 14: If we worked with clients to make their content iPad-friendly, we would use freelance resources —Print providers by employee size, June 2010
- Table 15: The iPad is not applicable to our business as an opportunity —
- Table 16: We’re focused on print alone as a core specialty because that’s
- what we do best —Print providers by employee size, June 2010
- Table 17: Our customers have no interest in the iPad and neither do we — Print providers by employee size, June 2010
- Table 18: We’ve never heard of the iPad —Print providers by employee size, June 2010
- Table 19: In just five years
- Table 20: Summary of GDP changes
- Table 21: Dr. Joe’s Key Recovery Indicators as of July 6, 2010
- Table 22: Dark clouds and silver linings for the printing industry today
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