2012 Hot Markets : Printing in a Mobile World

LOGISTICS/FREIGHT ($670B, +7 percent; with $4.0B to print, -7 percent) is No. 23. Shipping volume will stay level, which speaks volumes about the flat economy, so the only “growth” will be energy surcharges. The sector’s largest printing buyer, the U.S. Postal Service (-4 percent), will reduce service and again raise rates. What an opportunity for our industry to occupy these facilities and offer mail and enhanced services! UPS (+8 percent) and FedEx (+11 percent) certainly will do so as they expand into printing brokerage, mail co-op and forwarding, money transfers, etc.