December 11, 2007-Lexington, KY-WhatTheyThink, the leading online media organization serving the printing and publishing industry, today announced the availability of their most current report titled "Monthly U.S. Printing Shipments, Issue #25." Authored by Dr. Joe Webb, director of WhatTheyThink's Economics and Research Center, the report is available for immediate purchase at:
www.wttstore.com/monthly-us-printing-shipments.html
"October printing shipments were $9.29 billion or +2.8% over the same month in 2006," said Dr. Webb, director of WhatTheyThink's Economics and Research Center. "While over the last year, the average monthly increase has been +$170 million, this average increase compared to the prior year continues to decline."
The Monthly U.S. Printing Shipments Report, based on data from 2003 through 2007, contains both current and inflation-adjusted analysis of commercial printing and print services shipments. In addition, Dr. Webb also provides a series of forecasting scenarios, conservative, aggressive, GDP as well as his own forecast. The bonus audio file includes his frank analysis, opinions, as well an updated two-year outlook. The report also contains an additional chart on the industry's seasonal trends based monthly data from the U.S. Commerce Department.
"On inflation-adjusted basis however, October shipments were down -$67 million or -0.7% and for the first ten months of 2007, down -$1 billion compared to 2006 at -1%," continued Dr. Joe. "In addition, the last nine months has seen negative comparisons averaging -$134 million."
The report contains significant and proprietary analysis by Dr. Webb and WhatTheyThink's Economics and Research Center based on data compiled by the U.S. Commerce Department and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It includes all segments in NAICS 323 for commercial printing and trade services such as commercial offset, digital, and other printing processes, as well as prepress and postpress. Containing Adobe PDF, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint files, the cost of the report is $50.00 and features an MP3 file of audio commentary from Dr. Webb as well. Those purchasing the report can easily repurpose the charts and data for internal, client presentations, and reports.
www.wttstore.com/monthly-us-printing-shipments.html
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