Business Management - Industry Trends

This year’s Garment Decorators luncheon is the culmination of the work by the SGIA Garment Decorator Committee, which seeks to bring a wide range of information to this segment of the industry, topped off with a presentation from riCardo | crespo, who is also the emcee for THREADX 2019.

SGIA (Booth 1961) and IT Strategies released a joint research report earlier this year highlighting how digital technology is currently used in industrial printing markets. Mark Hanley, founder and president of IT Strategies, will discuss the findings of the report over two sessions at SGIA Expo 2018.

As finishing technology changes, so does the market for those services. Technological changes have made companies be less specialized. As technology has improved, customers have had their standards raised and expect printers to be able to provide greater variety in their products.

2018 SGIA Expo will have a panel of recipients of Big Picture magazine’s annual Women in Print Awards speak about their roles in print. Adrienne Palmer, Editor-in-Chief of ST Media Group (Booth1893), will lead the session today at 1:30 pm in room N114.

SGIA teamed up with Karstedt Consulting to research and write a report on the impact of digital printing technologies in the packaging sector. Kevin Karstedt is leading two separate sessions at the 2018 SGIA Expo explaining the findings of the report and their possible effects on the industry.

Andy Paparozzi, newly named chief economist for SGIA, proclaimed that, for the immediate future, the positive market forces driving the U.S. economy will prevail.

InfoTrends, a division of Keypoint Intelligence, and SGIA combined to put together a report on digital adoption in printed packaging.

Ford Bowers, President & CEO of SGIA, noted that we are on the cusp of a new beginning for the association, and for the industry as a whole.

In an always-on, smart-everything world, the race for attention is on every second of every day. Before investing, print buyers want to be confident they’re choosing the right partner to cut through the static.

SGIA (Booth 1961) and NAPCO Media teamed up recently to do a study on industry convergence and the results of that study will be discussed by a panel led by Nathan Safran, Director of Research at NAPCO Media. The session is today at 10:30 am in room N120.