Printing industry

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The printing industry (also printing, printing , printing ) is a branch of industry (branch) that deals with the production of printed products. The printing industry currently includes around 8,600 mostly small and medium-sized companies with around 139,000 employees.

The printing industry is characterized by small and medium-sized businesses. The proportion of companies with less than 20 employees subject to social security contributions is just under 83%. These printing houses employ around 24% of the total workforce in the printing industry. It is the printing works with more than 20 and less than 500 employees that employ most of the people. The proportion of employees there is almost 69%. The printing industry currently includes 7,820 predominantly small and medium-sized companies with around 131,372 employees. The turnover of the printing industry in 2017 was 20.8 billion euros.

Commercial printing industry

In industrial printing, one differentiates between

Economical meaning

The printing industry is more domestically oriented than the rest of the manufacturing sector: in 2015, 8.6 percent of its output was exported. The largest client is the commercial sector (86.4 percent compared to 8.7 percent private consumption). The largest commercial client is the publishing industry with 20 percent. In 2014 the German printing industry achieved nominal sales of EUR 12,187 million - 0.4 percent less than in the previous year.

Education and employment situation

The printing industry currently employs over 140,000 people in jobs subject to social insurance contributions (2014: 142,599) and has a training rate of around 8.3 percent (2014: 11,963 trainees, training rate 8.39 percent). The number of employees has been falling for years. Compared to the level of 2000 (222890) it has decreased by around 37 percent.

The most frequently chosen training course is media design , which is chosen by around 59 percent of all trainees. For comparison: printing technology (15.9 percent), print finishing (20.3 percent).

The industry is characterized by small companies: In 2014, 83 percent of all print shops had fewer than 20 employees, only 3 percent had 100 or more.

Industry representation

On August 15, 1869, the German Book Printing Association was founded as the first professional trade association in Germany. Today the interests of the printing industry are represented by the Federal Association of Printing and Media .

Wage development

On January 1, 2014, BVDM and ver.di agreed in a wage agreement that the following wages for the printing industry will apply from April 1, 2015:

Lohngruppe  Euro pro Woche
I           441,37
II          477,16
III         498,04
IV          518,91
V           596,45
VI          656,10
VII         715,74

The average increase in collectively agreed wages in the years 2000–2015 was 1.6%.

literature

  • Constanze Lindemann / Harry Neß (eds.): From book printer to media technologist - Ways of the printing industry in the world of digitization, VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-89965-824-8
  • Deutscher Drucker (Ed.): Market report printing industry, website: https://www.print.de/shop/download-marktreport-druckindustrie/

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Association of Printing and Media
  2. Basics of the printing industry. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
  3. Federal Employment Agency
  4. Preliminary statistics for vocational training and advanced training in print and media: http://www.bvdm-online.de/fileadmin/Bildung/Statistik13_14.pdf
  5. https://verlage-druck-papier.verdi.de/++file++53c3cd1baa698e56e80002ed/download/2014_LohnabkDI_010114_310316_Flyer.pdf
  6. Federal Statistical Office