Complete the "Printing Industry Performance and Insights" Benchmarking Survey and Receive the Report to Help Improve Your Business

GLGA’s latest Printing Industry Performance and Insights survey needs your help. This study will build financial benchmarks. We aim to provide company leaders with comparable and relevant financial benchmarks that you can use to improve your businesses.

Want to see a preview of some sample questions? Please click here.

All data will be kept confidential. Deadline to participate is Friday, April 19. We hope to have the final reports ready one month after the survey closes. 

Your participation is crucial: the more data we have from completed surveys, the more actionable knowledge we’ll draw. Help us develop knowledge that will help you by taking the survey!

Editor's note: the Great Lakes Graphics Association is among 15 regional printing associations partnering to sponsor the Performance and Insights studies. GLGA members can download reports from previous studies for free from the Members Only area of the GLGA website. 

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Upcoming Webinars - FREE for GLGA Members

• Wednesday, April 10: April 2024 Talent Report – Corporate Culture



• Monday, April 15: April Safety Brief: Lockout/Tagout

New Virtual MasterClass Series: Customer Service with Care

Upgrade your customer’s experience (CX) by learning how to effectively integrate CARE into your Customer Service program! This MasterClass is for all staff who want to learn how to learn techniques on delivering exceptional customer service, improve the customer service and help raise service standards. Our presenter is MasterClass educator Debbie Nicholson of Think To Ink!

The masterclass runs four consecutive Tuesdays starting April 30, 2024, and running through May 21, 2024. Click here for more information or to register.