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Newspaper Production

Newspaper Production

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  • 2017-11-16 13:58
    16.11.2017 – Too many debates nowadays are of the divisive and irreconcilable “either/or” variety – the kind that offer false choices that never fully satisfy and only sow further division. The same can be said about the commonly held assumptions about print vs. digital news consumption. Either we get all our news digitally…instantly, but often of dubious origin, verity and depth…or, we read it in print, with some natural lag time and the “muscle strain” of having to turn pages. Read more ...
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  • 2017-11-15 20:33
    November 15, 2017 – The IFRA World Publishing Expo (WPE) in Berlin (10th – 12th Oct. 2017) was an all-round success for manroland web systems. The web offset market leader showcased the power of its e:line newspaper printing systems, future oriented business models in the service sector and its new member of management, Franz Kriechbaum. Read more ...
  • 2017-11-13 13:24
    13.11.2017 – This year’s meeting was already the 13th time that users of the Cortina waterless newspaper press had come together to gather information on technical developments, to share practical experiences and to elaborate joint strategies within the framework of an annual Cortina User Workshop. The event initiated by Koenig & Bauer is held at the location of a different user or supplier industry partner each year, with central organisation placed in the dependable hands of Peter Benz, project manager at KBA-Digital & Web Solutions and the driving force behind the workshop. The host for the 2017 meeting was APEX International, the world's largest manufacturer of anilox and metering rollers with headquarters in Hapert near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Read more ...
  • 2017-11-08 14:20
    08.11.2017 – Following a good third quarter, the Koenig & Bauer group took a large step towards achieving its growth targets for revenue and earnings in 2017, the year in which it was celebrating its 200th anniversary. In the first nine months, order intake rose by 3.9% over the previous year (€869.8m) to €903.4m. “In addition to our expanding service business, the increase in new orders was underpinned by gains in the growth fields of packaging and digital printing,” said CFO Mathias Dähn. CEO Claus Bolza-Schünemann reported on a first order for the newly developed digital CorruJET sheetfed press addressing the prospering market of corrugated printing, which attracted great customer interest at the trade event FEFCO in Vienna in October. Revenue rose by 2% to €847.7m. With the book-to-bill ratio of 1.07, the order backlog of €613.2m at the end of the quarter remained at the previous year’s high level. EBIT came to €36.4m in the first nine months. The previous year’s figure of €39.2m had been influenced by a catch-up effect of €4.9m from a security press project. Group net profit came to €29.5m (2016: €32.5m), equivalent to earnings per share of €1.79 (2016: €1.98). Read more ...

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  • The newspaper industry is under pressure globally. While in the West, decline of the newspaper has been rapid, in the East, newspapers will probably survive for longer. However, there are several pressures on the newspaper industry in the East as well – competition from digital readership, increasing input costs, reducing advertising spends, and so on. In such a scenario, it is important for newspaper industry players to collaborate to improve internal operational efficiencies across the industry. Through such an effort the overall industry will stand to benefit. With this objective in mind, an industry-wide benchmarking exercise was carried out to identify specific improvement opportunities across players. The result has been extremely encouraging. This report details out the methodology and findings of this benchmarking exercise.
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