Does Productivity Influence Profit? --Dickeson

That loss must be currently replaced to stay even in volume. Then we strive for an additional 10 percent sales volume to justify enhanced capacity resulting from increasing productivity. Seems we're caught in a deadly loop, aren't we?

All of this logic leads to the mergers, acquisitions and printing company attrition we continue to observe. Unfortunately, the track record of the merging and acquiring printers is singularly unimpressive per the share values of the publicly traded firms that have resulted. Commercial printing is primarily a relationship business, not a commodity production, with sets of complex culture paradigms that rarely mesh in an effort to achieve the magic "synergy."