April 2008 Print Talk
How sustainable is your business?

March 2008 Print Talk
Industry statistical research
THE Federation has commissioned BMI to conduct credible and objective research into the state and size of our industry.
 

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Print Talk November 2007 Time for a move?
Training in the Printing and Packaging industries has been seriously and detrimentally affected by the incompetence, laziness and dishonesty that has emanated from MAPPP SETA for a long time.
 

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Print Talk October 2007 MAPPP SETA UNDER ADMINISTRATION
While PIFSA is extremely concerned about the orchestration of the attack on the Printing and Packaging industry which lead to MAPPP SETA being placed under administration by the Minister of Labour this week, we welcome the appointment of Price Waterhouse Coopers as administrators.
 

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Print Talk September 2007 A MAPPP without direction
The future of the Media Advertising Publishing Printing and Packaging Sector Education and Training Authority is in doubt, and while there will probably not be many of our members which will mourn this fact, the tragedy is that training and skills development in the printing and packaging industries has been severely and negatively affected by a few employees of this SETA.
 

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Print Talk August 2007 BBBEE – Progress at last
The long delay in gazetting the final Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Codes ended back in February, but the interpretation of the Codes and the practical implications of implementation are only now beginning to be understood. Like many pieces of new legislation, it is only when it is tested in “real-life” that the consequences, both intended and unintended, will be seen.

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Print Talk July 2007 Terry Kane Retires
The retirement of Terry Kane from Alex White, which is now a part of the Astrapak stable of companies brings to an end a long and very distinguished association with the Printing Industries Federation of South Africa.

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Print Talk June 2007 United We Stand
Because a lot of what the Federation does is not immediately visible, and also because much of it is long-term or structural in nature, I would like to remind readers of some of the things that PIFSA is involved with on behalf of our members and the industry.

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Print Talk May 2007 The Chairman of MAPPP SETA, Martin Deysel has issued a statement about some of the distortions and misrepresentations emanating from certain parts of the Arts and Culture industries and the suspended CEO of the SETA.

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Print Talk April 2007
Cross Media your Centre of Excellence Established in 1993 Cross Media Training Centre has over the years proven its commitment and standing within the Printing and Packaging Industries, having trained in excess of 9000 people and positively contributed to changing the demographics of our industry significantly.

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Print Talk March 2007
In December last year the Cross Media Training Centre became a separate non-profit company registered in terms S 21 of the Companies Act. Up until last year the CMTC had been exempt from income tax, but changes in public benefit organisation tax legislation necessitated this change.

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Print Talk November / December 2006
PIFSA and Training. When PIFSA established the Honeydew College in 1993, the intention of the industry was to replicate it (as far as possible) in Cape Town and Durban as funding became available.

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Print Talk September 2006
Lower Paper and Board Prices for the industry

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Print Talk August 2006
GAIN Studies for PIFSA members.

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Print Talk June 2006
New PIFSA Board of Management

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Print Talk May 2006
CEO Corner: The Harsh Realities of Globalisation

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Print Talk March 2006
Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment is crucial to the economic and social future of South Africa – it is essential that the majority of our citizens should benefit from, and feel an integral part of the mainstream of a freemarket economy.

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Print Talk February 2006
Cross Media Training Centre and Mappp Seta the way forward.

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Print Talk January 2006
President's Prerogative
The Year Ahead. January 2006

Elsewhere in this issue of PRINTalk Chris Sykes makes reference to a number of unresolved issues.

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Print Talk November/December 2005
CEO Corner
Print is far from dead!

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Print Talk October 2005
President’s Prerogative Skills Result in ‘Value Add’...

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Print Talk September 2005
To date we have looked at two of the virtues of print. Firstly ‘Intrusive’ and then ‘Passion’ in our last issue of Printalk. In this issue we look at the ‘Lasting’ qualities in the Power of Print.

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Print Talk August 2005
Strategic planning for ongoing success Last month we got as far as the matrix of possibilities and eventualities and you setting up a business target with more confidence.

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Print Talk July 2005
Since the early 1900’s the Federation has been concerned with the provision of skilled labour to the industry.

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Print Talk June 2005

Print Talk June 2005

Print Talk May 2005
Those of us who are in business are here to make a profit, and so any threat is regarded seriously. Recently there has been a lot of press coverage about the threat posed by imported textiles and other goods, and there is concern in some quarters about the loss of orders to China, India and Malaysia. 

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  Print Talk April 2005

It should be clear that in an industry where 80% of companies employ fewer than 20 people, but where the remaining 20% of employers are responsible for more than 80% of all employment no simple “one size fits all” solution to an issue as complex as Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) can exist.

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