What's Happening in London, ON…

Companies that provide flyer printing in London, Ontario, may want to be wary of a recent report that revealed the relative health of printing shipments in back to back months. According to printing shipment figures that came out of Ottawa, shipments declined in the back to back months of August to September.

While a decline in printing shipments numbers is never favorable, there is a reason to be optimistic. The drop off in the shipment figures in August and September of 2010 was not as bad as the decline in shipment numbers for most of the year. These numbers are useful for economists to make predictions about the current state of the Canadian printing industry. While these softer shipment numbers still represent a decline, their relative strength compared to the decline in printing shipments of all of 2009 may indicate that the Canadian printing industry is strengthening seasonally, somewhat.

In 2010, the number of printing shipments in August was $667,200,00; in 2009, the number of printing shipments was already $678,700,000. This decline from 2009 numbers to 2010 numbers represents a change of 1.69 percent. For the month of September in 2010, the number of printing shipments was $726,200,000; September 2009 saw the number of printing shipments at $763,600,000. This decline in shipments represents a decline of 4.89 percent.

The year-to-date numbers are the worst of all: In 2009 at this time, shipments stood at $6,348,500,000. In 2010, shipments are only at $6,003,700,000. This represents a drop of 5.4 percent.

Companies that provide flyer printing in London, Ontario, may want to make adjustments to their strategies in light of these softer numbers.