Five-Year Growth Trends at the 35 Largest In-plants
With years of data collected on the largest in-plants, In-plant Graphics decided to take a look back at how these large shops have changed in size over the past five years. We created a series of bar charts showing the number of employees at these in-plants from 2012 - 2016.
In most cases, there is a clear downward trend in in-plant staff size. It's most pronounced at the very largest in-plants, like the Government Publishing Office, which dropped from 677 employees in 2012 to 554 this year. Allstate too showed a fair amount of downsizing as its employee count went from 470 to 353 over those five years.
This trend toward decreasing staff size is not universal, though. Several inplants have increased in size, some substantially. Mayo Clinic and the State of Tennessee each took on additional departments and added to their employee counts. U-Haul also shows steady growth over the past five years, as does the University of Alabama.
We have created charts showing growth trends of the next 25 large in-plants as well. This special report is available free of charge by clicking the link below. We ask only that you fill out a very short registration form so we know a little more about you. This data is helping us better serve the market with relevant content. Once you register, you will not be asked for this information next time we publish a special report as long as you use the same browser. Click here to see our full report on "Five-Year Growth Trends at the 25 Largest In-plants."
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 170 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
