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Article: Commercial printing pricing power weak. (Market Watch).(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Graphic Arts Monthly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Overall inflation in the printing and publishing industry has been much higher than economy-wide inflation this year. Between September 2001 and September 2002, the overall Producer Price Index (PPI) for finished goods fell by 1.9%. The PPI covering all output from printing and publishing, however, rose by 2.4% over the same 12-month period.
At the same time, commercial printers aren't enjoying the same pricing power as the rest of the industry. While magazine, newspaper, greeting card, and book publishers have been able to successfully raise prices during the past year for a broad range of products, the price index for jobs coming out of commercial printing firms ...