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Upcoming World Printers Forum webinar to explore ESG and non-financial reporting strategies

2024-03-06. Starting this year, all companies within the scope of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive in Europe will be required to disclose details on sustainability and its environmental impacts. Dr. Michael Has, a consultant and university lecturer based in Germany, will explain how to navigate this process in a webinar on Tuesday, 26 March at 15:00 CET.

How Bertelsmann Marketing Services reduced their energy consumption – Case study

2024-02-29. Lars Peters, Director of Energy Management, Bertelsmann Marketing Services, presented the case of energy saving at Bertelsmann.

World Printers Summit comes to Austria this year

2024-02-20. The two-day global summit, hosted by the World Printers Forum, is scheduled to take place from 8-9 October 2024 in Vienna, Austria at Palais Niederösterreich.

How Germany’s SV Zeitungsdruck is documenting its carbon footprint

2024-02-08. Christoph Migotsch, Sustainability Manager and Head of Maintenance and Procurement at SV Zeitungsdruck GmbH, shares how the company documented all its direct and indirect emissions for corporate carbon footprint calculations.

The International Color Quality 2024-2026 contest for print publishing is now open.

2024-01-30. WAN-IFRA’s World Printers Forum has announced the opening of registrations for the International Color Quality Club (ICQC), the global print quality contest for newspapers and magazines. 

Are you among the Best Newspaper Printers in the world?

2024-01-24. The 16th International Color Quality Contest is the worldwide biennial quality competition for newspapers and magazines. Its goal is to improve the quality of reproduction and printing, while also increasing competitiveness as well as training and motivating all personnel. It rewards winners who print according to international ISO 12647-3 and other standards.

What’s next for printed newspapers? Insights from Mediahuis and FAZ

2024-01-10. Belgium-based Mediahuis and Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) share their print and digital strategies for the future.

Meeting sustainability targets with CO2 footprint calculation

2023-12-14. Being honest in ESG reporting can save publishers and printers from possible legal repercussions in the future and help to better analyse the CO2 impact of their company, according to Dr Michael Has of Monopteros.

Consolidation in newspaper printing: Experts discuss the why and how

2023-12-11. At the beginning of the second day of the World Printers Forum in Frankfurt am Main, a panel discussion on the topic “Consolidation in newspaper printing” was held in German – especially for the DACH region.

New WAN-IFRA report: JP Politikens’ case for making distribution a viable revenue option

WAN-IFRA and its World Printers Forum just published a new report, examining how JP Politikens Media Group in Denmark uses its Dansk Avis Omdeling (DAO) subsidiary, the dominant distribution company in the country, to drive new revenue. The case study is a good reminder of how a publisher can look within their core business to possibly create new business.