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July 2010 Quarterly Business Conditions Report | Market Research Report On Aarkstore Enterprise

This 73-page report provides the results of the Economics and Research Center’s June 2010 survey of print business owners, and compares these results to past quarterly surveys to provide an accurate gauge of how print businesses professionals perceive the economic landscape, how those perceptions are changing, and what actions they are likely to take in response to challenging economic times. In addition to our own survey results, we provide the most current data available on printing industry shipments and profits, employment, and other economic indicators.

Table of Contents :

Economic Forecast in a Nutshell
Introduction
How This Report Is Organized
For More Information
Section 1: Prevailing Q2 Business Conditions
Current Business Conditions
June 2010 Survey Results
March 2010 Survey Results
Expected Business Conditions
June Survey Results
March 2010 Survey Results
Business Conditions Index
Prevailing Economic Conditions
GDP
Proprietors’ Income
Corporate Cash Flow
Personal Income
Employment and Unemployment
Consumer Confidence
Consumer Price Index
Leading Indicators
Employment Cost Index
Small Business Optimism Index
Graphic Communications Industry Economic Trends
Graphic Designers
Graphic Arts Employment
Printing Industry Shipments and Profits
The Bottom Lines
Printing Industry Forecast
Section 2: Books of Business, Chicago, and iPads—A Miscellany
Book of Business
That Toddlin’ Town
Left to Their Own Devices Redux
Section 3: Conclusions and Recommendations
The Shows Must Go On
Kindles, Pads and Nooks
iAd
Location-Based Apps—The Next Big Thing or Not Much Ado About Nothing?
Whither E-Mail?
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, the Economy
It Was Worse Than We Thought
The U.S.’s Lost Decade
Dr. Joe’s Economic Indicators
Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
Looking Forward
About the Analyst

Table of Figures
Figure 1: In terms of your revenues at this location, how has the first half of 2010 compared to the first half of 2009? —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 2: In terms of your revenues at this location, how has the rate of business for first three months of 2010 compared to 2009? —All print providers, March 2010
Figure 3: Do you expect 2010 revenues compared to 2009 to providers, June 2010
Figure 4: Do you expect 2010 revenues compared to 2009 to —All print providers, March 2010
Figure 5: Business Conditions Index (BCI) for all printing establishments,March 2008-June 2010
Figure 6: Y/Y % change in real GDP, Q1 2000-Q1 2010
Figure 7: Gross Domestic Product, Q1 2000-Q1 2010 (billions of current dollars)
Figure 8: Proprietors’ income, Q1 2000-Q1 2010,(billions of current dollars)
Figure 9: Net corporate cash flow, Q1 2000-Q1 2010,(billions of current dollars)
Figure 10: Personal income, Q1 2000-Q1 2010,(billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates)
Figure 11: “Official” unemployment rate vs. broadest definition of unemployment, Dec. 2007-Apr. 2010
Figure 12: Consumer Confidence Index (1985=100),January 2005-June 2010
Figure 13: Consumer Price Index (1982-1984=100),January 2005-March 2010
Figure 14: The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Indicators Index (2004=100), January 2008-June 2010
Figure 15: Employment Cost Index (December 2005=100),Q1 2006-Q1 2010
Figure 16: Small Business Optimism Index (1986=100)
Figure 17: AIGA Design Leaders Confidence Index (April 2005=100),2005-2010
Figure 18: Current-dollar U.S. printing and print services shipments (M3 series for NAICS 323, in $ million)
Figure 19: Inflation-adjusted U.S. printing and print services shipments (M3 series for NAICS 323, in $ million) with June-December 2010 forecast
Figure 20: U.S. commercial printing shipments (inflation-adjusted), January-May 2010 ($ million)
Figure 21: U.S. commercial printing shipments —January to May 2006 to 2010 ($ billion)
Figure 22: Has this location been part of a merger or acquisition, or purchased or sold a “book of business” or “customer base” in the last 18 months? —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 23: Is this business actively seeking to purchase the “book of business” or “customer base” of another business in the next 18 months? —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 24: Is this business actively seeking to sell its “book of business” or “customer base” of another business in the next 18 months? —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 25: In relation to this year’s Graph Expo to be held this October in Chicago, does your company responses permitted)
Figure 26: Which of the following devices do you own for your personal or business use? (multiple responses permitted) —All print providers, March 2010
Figure 27: We have an iPad and are concentrating on developing applications and content for it for customers —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 28: We do not have an iPad but are able to develop content that is compatible with it —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 29: We will add iPad capabilities as a strategy to draw new customers to our print capabilities —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 30: It’s just one of many content channels that we are able to develop for —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 31: If we worked with clients to make their content iPad-friendly, we
would use freelance resources —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 32: The iPad is not applicable to our business as an opportunity —All
print providers, June 2010
Figure 33: We’re focused on print alone as a core specialty because that’s
what we do best —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 34: Our customers have no interest in the iPad and neither do we — All print providers, June 2010
Figure 35: We’ve never heard of the iPad —All print providers, June 2010
Figure 36: “To what extent are you familiar with geolocation applications like Foursquare and Gowalla that you can access on a mobile phone?”(Base: U.S. online adults)
Figure 37: E-mail open rates, 2007-2009
Figure 38: Job Growth by Decade, 1940s-2000s

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