- Projected Annual Growth in 2024 – 2030: – 2.9% CAGR for Offset Commercial Printers
- Projected Annual Growth in 2024 – 2030: + 5 to + 6% CAGR for Packaging Printers and Related Sectors.
- Annual Revenue: $5.2 Billion 2024 Commercial Printing
- Establishments: 552 * Wisconsin has a number of Quick Printers with less than 10 employees outside of our survey!
- Employment: 23,500 – Wisconsin has a large base of Label, Wide Format, Digital, Flexible Packaging and Packaging Printers not counted in this figure. GBIG will be putting together a comprehensive report on these sectors of the printing industry in 2024.
- Wages: $1.6 Billion – Commercial Offset Printers.
- Area Industry Data on Printers: Milwaukee & Waukesha County – 153, Dane Country – 53, Brown – 34, Outagamie – 27, Winnebago – 26, Lacrosse – 23, Washington – 18, Sheboygan – 15, Fond Du Lac – 13.
PRODUCT SERVICES SEGMENTATION – Industry Revenue in 2023 Broken Down by key product and service lines.
- Commercial Printing: $31.6 Billion – 36%
- Digital Printing: $16.7 Billion – 19%
- Flexographic Printing: $13 Billion – 14.9%
- Screen Printing: $7.9 Billion – 9%
- Book Printing: $5 Billion – 7%
- Gravure Printing: $2.5 Billion – 2.8%
- Other Printing: $11 Billion – 12.4%
The largest concentration of Printers in Wisconsin is in Milwaukee Country accounting for 15.2% of the total establishments in the State of Wisconsin. The Northeastern Wisconsin area has 115 companies, with the second largest concentration of Printers.
OVERVIEW:
The long-term projection in commercial printing will continue to drop at – 2.6% CAGR with the exception of the Commercial Printers entering the Packaging Markets! We will see the Packaging Sector grow at 5 6% CAGR and Wisconsin will benefit from it. Wisconsin has a very strong base of Label Printers, Flexographic Printers, Gravure Printers, Digital Printers and Wide format Printers. In addition, Wisconsin has one of the largest concentrations of Converters in the United States supporting our printing industries. We continue to see the decline in Paper and Pulp Manufacturing. However, we see strength in Specialty Papers, Corrugated and Board Products.
The Great Lakes States have the largest spread of businesses compared to its population. Wisconsin is fortunate to have some of the largest USA Printers located in Wisconsin.
- RR Donnelly – 3 Plants
- Quad Graphics – 9 Plants
- Multi-Color Corporation – 3 Plants
- Lakeside Book – 1 Plant
- Sheridan – 3 Plants
- Freedom Graphics – 1 Plant
- Arandel Corporation – 1
- 4-Imprint – 1
- Symth Companies – 1
- Inland Printing – 2
- Castle-Pierce – 2
- Heartland Label Printers – 1
- Belmark – 3
- Amcor – 5
- Nexxa – 1
- Legacy Flexo – 1
- Glenroy – 1
- Print Pro – 1
- American Packaging – 2
- Schuman Printers – 1
- Seaway Printers – 1
