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Editor’s comment
MANAGING EDITOR
Bounce, dip and
Jon Barrett
jbarrett@datateam.co.uk
climb
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So it looks like the rate of recession is slowing, suggesting we are approaching the bottom. The
big question is where do we go from here? Political and economic commentators are debating
the ‘shape’ of the recovery will it be a V-shaped rapid bounce back, a W-shaped double dip
SALES MANAGER
recession or the slow grind of an L-shaped recovery.
Adam Kinlan
My guess is a mixture of all three. After endless doom and gloom, our society has a habit of
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willing itself into a bounce (V) which will fall back to a more realistic level (W), followed by a slow
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climb as government is forced to turn off the quantitative easing.
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You may ask what this has to do with screen or wide-format digital printing. My answer is
simple, the business volume that comes with easy money is yesterday’s news and could be for
many years. Basing a business plan on leveraging debt to gain market share in a commodity
DIGITAL FEATURES EDITOR market is going to prove tough.
Tracey Rushton-Thorpe
The secret, as always, is service differentiation and adding value. Ask yourself the age old
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question: ‘What does your business do differently and how can it add maximum value to your
Tel: 01733 266990
customers’ businesses at minimum cost’.
Maybe it’s a high level, one-stop-shop service offering. Maybe it’s a trouble shooting,
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consultancy angle, printing the impossible. Maybe its focussing on niche high value markets such
as medical and industrial. Maybe its attacking international markets that have cash and welcome
SCREEN FEATURES EDITOR
British manufacturing values. I don’t mind what the answer is, provided you have one. Welcome
Peter Kiddell
to the recovery.
peter.kiddell@pdsconsulting.co.uk
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