2014 Hot Markets: Packaging, Pharma Head List
A national ID smart-card is coming, and most everything printed could have a security feature stamped, image-embedded or otherwise included in the substrate or film; a big value-added for the buyer (and for us, of course)!
Logistics/Freight ($752B, +6 percent; with $3.8B to print, -4 percent) is No. 23 and dropping. Overall postal volumes and multi-modal freight shipments are victims of technology, economy and politics. Any revenue growth will be from fuel surcharges rather than demand. Multi-part shipping forms, envelopes, folding cartons and POS print will remain flat. The online retail giants will do everything in-house, including product labels.
Vincent Mallardi, C.M.C., is a the chairman of the Printing Brokerage/Buyers Association International (PBBA) and is a Certified Management Consultant in the paper, printing and converting industries. He is also an adjunct professor in economics. Contact him via email at vince@pbba.org
