For some time now, Latvia, and Riga in particular, has been repeatedly cited as an explanation when it comes to publishers demanding lower and lower prices for the production of their books or printers losing lucrative orders. Apenberg & Partner has taken up this issue and undertaken research on Latvian book production and its export, as well as German book [...]
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 frequently encountering printing company owners [...]
Digitalisation and connecting people, machines and processes continues to progress. Digitalisation also sets the pace in human resources – in continuing education, payroll or recruiting. But human labour is not being replaced per se, but an autonomous virtual process is being added. After all, digitalisation brings new tools for teamwork and personnel management which are already speeding up many processes [...]
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 rarely means that these companies have adequate or even optimal knowledge of their own organisation.
Yet this knowledge is also vital for the competitiveness, thus the future viability, of all printers, regardless of whether they make their money with web offset, sheetfed offset, digital printing or any combination of the three.
Apenberg & Partner have returned from the Online Print Symposium 2019, and must once again compliment Bernd Zipper, Jens Meyer and their team: many interesting guests and ground-breaking lectures in a great setting.