Blue Star on consolidation path
It is difficult to capture the scale of Australia’s printing industry given the amount of activity that takes place outside of the traditional silos. The data points highlighted by the national industry association, however, do not make for comforting reading.
A total of 120,000 people were employed across the pulp and paper manufacturing, printing and support services, and publishing in 2007-2008. By 2011-2012 it had fallen to 106,000. Industry EBITDA dropped...
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