Paper Outlook for Q2 — Prices Holding Through Spring

GCA then tabulates the data and provides a monthly report to participating companies and subscribers with the total inventories for these categories, as well as trends for each category over time.

"We now know that the surge in paper buying in 1995 was caused not by a jump in consumption demand, but by an increase in anticipated demand against forecasted supply, and a desire to avoid expected future price escalations," says Norman Scharpf, president, GCA.