According to the " European printing News" reported that in recent years , due to the printing industry Arrested Development and slow economic growth, the number of German printing companies continued to decline. 2000 total there are 13,922 printing companies in Germany , 2005 was reduced to 11,521 , in 2008 was reduced to 10,702 in 2009, continued to be reduced to 10,301 . 2000-2009 of 10 years, the German printing companies to reduce the total number of 3600 , a total decrease of 26% , which is 1 /4 of the enterprises in the meantime disappeared from the German printing market . In 2010, the German printing companies was reduced to 10,050 in 2011, continued to be reduced to about 9750 , 2012 , bankruptcy printing companies in Germany there are about 350 , the number dropped to 9,400 printing companies up and down again .
With the reduction in the number of printing enterprises , workers employed in the printing industry also decreased significantly . German printing industry's total number of employees in 2005 to nearly 18 million people in 2008 was reduced to 17.2 million in 2009 to continue to be reduced to 16.6 million in 2010 to 15.9 million in 2011 to 15.5 million in 2012 and reduced to 15.1 million, a 2% decrease over the previous year .
Similar to many countries , the German printing industry also accounted for the vast majority of small businesses . 2011 , 9746 German printing companies, workers and one person enterprises to 9 6838 , accounting for 70.2% of the total number of enterprises ; workers 10 to 19 who have 1259 , accounting for 12.9% ; 20 employees to 49 there are 1,011 people , accounting for 10.4%. Among them, the number of employees less than 20 people total 8097 small businesses , accounting for 83.1% of the total German printing companies. Add 20 employees to 49 medium-sized enterprises , the German small and medium enterprises accounted for 93.5% of the total number of printing companies . Employees with more than 50 large-scale printing companies only 638 , accounted for only 6.5% of the total. However, the total number of workers in this 638 large enterprises owned 8.55 million workers there , accounting for more than half ( 55.3 percent ) of all workers in the German printing industry . The number of SMEs account for over 90% of workers in total only 6.9 million people , accounting for 44.7 percent of all workers.
German domestic printing sales in 2009 dropped to 16.1 billion euros in 2010, then fell to 15.9 billion euros . In 2011 , the German printing sales rebound , up 2.5 percent over the previous year , to 16.3 billion euros . However, in 2012 and turn reduced by the increase , a decrease of 2.5%.
