PrintNZ is the peak body for the printing industry and has three key strategic goals:
- Promoting the benefits of print as a sustainable and effective means of communication to a much larger audience – we still see too many references to anything and everything print/paper ‘killing trees’.
There is amazing collateral available from the Two Sides and Value of Paper and Print campaigns and it is fantastic to work collaboratively with the campaign on both sides of the Tasman. PrintNZ Members have access to all of the collateral through their membership and should make the most of it. It is up to everyone to get it out into the market place however you can – whether that be by use of graphics on your website, including information in your customer mailings, preparing presentations for customers that include facts and figures, sharing Facebook stories/tweets etc. We have these resources available and the more companies that participate, the further the word will spread.
- Supporting our core membership and assisting their businesses to be the best they can be, while at the same time expanding the membership of PrintNZ to ensure that it is inclusive of the broad spectrum of businesses that are involved in print in one form or another.
Over the past 12 months PrintNZ has broadened our service offering and increased our engagement activity so make the most of what is on offer. These services are all either free or at heavily discounted prices and have been put in place to help members. Our core areas of business assistance are:
- Employment Relations – personalized employment advice including hiring, disciplinary procedures, redundancy and restructuring. We have a broad range of templates and also prepare bespoke documentation.
- Health and Safety – detailed programmes, audits, documentation and training that will ensure you are complying with your H&S obligations under the new legislation.
- Member savings – group buying schemes that provide a discount to our members including St Johns, Mobil petrol, insurance, Enviromark accreditation, office products.
- Lobbying – acting as the voice of the industry in matters that have the ability to affect our industry both positively and negatively.
- Benchmarking – collecting data that will provide both high level and low level statistics for use by the industry itself and for supporting presentations to other organizations. The benchmarking information we put out is only as good as the data that goes in. We have a new survey questionnaire due out shortly so please make sure you fill it out and send it in so that you can get a copy of the results back.
- Encouraging the industry to recognise the potential of their employees by providing them with training opportunities, both in the core print/packaging skills and the peripheral areas of sales, business, leadership, health and safety, customer services and competitive manufacturing.
Training is vital to the ongoing health of our industry and PrintNZ continues to work with Competenz to ensure that the training needs of the industry are met, and that businesses take advantage of all the formal training options that are available.
But there are also many informal options for learning – the Industry Forum, PrintNZ seminars, trade shows such as Pacprint, vendor training. Don’t miss an opportunity to upskill or cross-skill your staff – improving their capabilities can only be good for your business.
Achieving these goals requires not only the dedication of the Board and staff of PrintNZ, but they also require the commitment of our members and the industry to ensure that everyone takes responsibility for spreading the good story of print as far as possible, having skilled staff to produce the work and strong businesses that represent the industry.
We all have a common goal – to see our industry and the businesses in it be successful and have print recognised for the important role it plays. To do this we need everyone to participate. If there are businesses in the industry you work with that should be part of this make sure you let us know. We want everyone to play their part – we will all reap the rewards.
For further information on any events or to get involved, please email ruth.cobb@printnz.co.nz