Sales Still Up, but Confidence is Slipping: “Our industry still isn’t gaining any traction,” notes the latest edition of NAPL’s Printing Business Conditions , reporting that sales did rise for the second quarter, but remain down slightly for the first half of 2012; “We’ve been witnessing this up-and-down pattern for two years now.”
The latest report (PDF) indicates that more members of the NAPL Printing Business Panel are seeing pre-tax profitability increase (31.9 percent in August 2012, compared to 24.3 percent in January 2012), but fewer expect business to improve over the next six months.
