I rang one of our customers in the Hull area yesterday to find no answer. All was revealed when I heard they had gone home due to the excessive amounts of rain and flooding.
I hope all is well with you. KCS Trade Print are keen to hear any of your comments on this blog.
As ever with manufacturing life is either desperately busy or starting to slow down. We have had some really good months following the slow early start to this year.
I am concerned though that with this awful summer weather the retail industry lack of sales will start to feed through the print industry. There are going to be some massive sales on summer clothes starting soon. I see BBQ goods are already on sale!
Interest rates are due to rise again and that will also have an impact in the amount of money people spend on goods and hence on our forms.
The margins are tightening and there are some very low prices in the market. One of the issues is that if the prices are too low you can never get them back to a true manufacturing cost. I think this is shortsighted as there is then no money available for investment in new equipment. The print industry likes to live on a knife edge. Same old story of over-capacity.
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