Just as print professionals celebrate International Print Day 2015 – a global 24 hour event being held October 14 in which everybody in the industry as well as social media enthusiasts come together to highlight the creativity, importance and power of print and paper, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) also released the World Press Trends 2015 Report which further confirmed that print lives on.
FACTS NEVER LIE. According to World Press Trends 2015 Report released during the World Publishing Expo 2015 in Hamburg, Germany about 2.7 billion adults today still read newspapers in print, nearly half of the world’s adult population.
And as print can never die, WHERE To Print believes the world’s legendary and iconic industry will continue to wax stronger by the day with new developments – and shattering all myths. So, celebrate print and contribute to its development in whatever way you can!
In this edition, we have packaged series of POST SHOW REPORTS that document the happenings at shows between September and October this year such as SPECIAL FEATURE – PWA 2015 Post Show Report on pages 20, 21 and 26 with pictorials on page 32 that features SPECIAL FEATURE – PWA 2015 Post Show Report/ Exhibitors’ Function and page 42 for SPECIAL FEATURE – PWA 2015 Post Show Report/ Seminar. Lastly, great news from Label Expo Europe 2015 as an indigenous, forward-looking and professional Nigerian printer – Lanre Akintilo of Portion Consults LTD put Nigeria on the map of favourable places to do print business as he acquires a brand new Xeikon 3300 at the show. Check out more with pictorials on pages 40 and 41 in the SPECIAL FEATURE – Label Expo Post Show Report.
We’ve brought back our Tax & Financial Management Advisory Column – SME MANAGEMENT & ACCOUNTING (page 38) with brand new Chartered Accountant & Registered Tax Consultant – Mr. Shola Awoyemi, the Managing Partner – J O AWOYEMI & CO. Check out his piece on SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMEs) AND ITS TAX IMPLICATION.
As your best medium to influence your print purchase decision, we also present some interviews with major stakeholders in the industry. Turn to pages 29 and 29 and read SPECIAL FEATURE INTERVIEW of Agfa Graphics Regional Business Manager – Graphics Supply/ Direct Export for Africa – Mr. Thibault Dejaiffe and pages 36 and 38 for SPECIAL FEATURE INTERVIEW of Chairman/ CEO of Jpaac Printing and Packaging Limited – Chief Mark Babatunde.
And just as the year is coming to an end, we sincerely appreciate all of you: our readers, advertisers, PEP customers and partners who believe in us and enabled us to be better then what we were. We say A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU ALL and promise to continually work hard to influence your print purchase decisions. To adequately plan for 2016 Print Business Year as it relates to your human capacity development at your press, we leave you with first half of 2016 PRINT & ALLIED EXHIBITIONS on page 12. Give us a call if you need more information on any of the show or to join our VIP Delegation.
Until next year – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance!
Please continue to do good!
Best regards,
Joju Adekanbi
