Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Imaging Industry Operating Income - What's the Story?

As reported recently (see our previous entry from 10. December 2008), Woodford Group has published the newest quarterly update of our Imaging Industry Margin Index Report. This report reflects the Q3 2008 results of 12 major imaging industry companies representing well over 90% of the distributed output market.

On Thursday, 22. January, we will hold a free webinar to introduce the report. The webinar will take place at 11:00am EST.  Click here to register. Without giving away too much (hey, we're a business!), here are some interesting trends to share:

1) Cumulative revenue and margins (value and percentages) are not that bad, all things considered. Yes, there has been some negative influence from the economy, but also from mismanagement in some cases as well. But as mentioned, we see a dip more than a dive, and the cumulative numbers are a testament to a relatively stable industry.



Obviously, there is much more detail available to track and analyze quarterly developments, year-on-year comparisons and overall trends over the past 19 quarters.

2) We map industry winners and losers on several axes: company share of total industry revenue and company share of total industry operating margin (value as well as percentage). We can track these figures over the entire analysis period and also map them to specific comparison periods such as sequential quarters and year-over-year.

Revenue:
Operating Income (%):
We're not naming names today, but we can share the observation that companies populating specific quadrants vary depending on the category selected. Only a few companies are found consistently in the same quadrant across all categories. Further, while the data obviously dictates where each company is mapped, the analysis helps understand the whole picture. Some "winners" don't deserve the title, as we will be pleased to explain why.

Want to learn more? Buy the report. Or as a next step, join our upcoming webinar introducing the report in (a bit) more detail. The webinar will take place on Thursday, 22. January at 11:00am EST. To register, click here, go to our website at www.woodford-group.com, or send a note to info@woodford-group.com.

We hope you can join us, see you there!

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