A premiere for Gustav Daiber GmbH: for the first time, the corporate fashion manufacturer presented its collections together with Tanzkraftwerk Stuttgart in its own fashion show on 9 October 2025. Around 70 invited guests, including customers from all over Germany, experienced an event at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart that combined fashion and dance in a special way.
The exhibition 100 Saxon Prints 2024, which runs from 25 October 2025 to 11 January 2026 in Leipzig, continues the chain of socially focused themes of recent biennials. The future can no longer be bought with money alone. Indifference is not yet punished, and aeroplanes and cars still fly and drive at will. Living trees still stand in city centres, but the impositions to come will claim victims along the thickness of their wallets. This year’s Graphic Art Biennial draws attention to escalating processes in social interaction.
The announced economic recovery is also slow in coming in the printing industry. Although there are initial signs of stabilisation, the bottom line remains sobering. Sales in the printing and media industry are declining again.
The printing industry has undergone three years of profound changes and, according to the BVDM industry report, is currently in a sustained phase of consolidation. The intensity of the decline in production is easing, but a sustained upturn is not yet in sight.
At the start of work on the EU Commission’s omnibus environmental package, the German Printing and Media Association (BVDM) has called for a noticeable reduction in excessive bureaucratic requirements for the printing and media industry. From the BVDM’s point of view, there is an urgent need for reform of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), a practical, proportionate and legally secure design of the existing environmental requirements is essential in order not to jeopardise the competitiveness and sustainability of the industry.
The BVDM welcomes the EU Commission’s initiative to revise existing environmental regulations as part of the long-announced ‘Environmental Omnibus Package’. Together with its European umbrella organisation INTERGRAF, the BVDM supports the overarching goal of strengthening the competitiveness of printing and media companies by reducing unnecessary administrative burdens.
The seasonally adjusted business climate in the German print and media industry deteriorated in August 2025. The seasonally adjusted business climate index calculated by the BVDM showed a decline of 4.5 per cent compared to the previous month.
The German packaging industry is facing profound structural changes. After strong growth until 2022, the industry has been experiencing a downward trend since then. In 2024, the production value in Germany was around 30 billion euros. Apenberg & Partner is forecasting a further decline to 27.4 billion euros by 2025 and to 26 billion euros by 2026.
VG Schoepe Berlin GmbH in Dahme/Berlin has been successfully recertified for digital printing on corrugated board for the sixth time. Back in 2013, VG Schoepe was the first company in the world to be certified according to the ProcessStandard Digital Printing (PSD) for corrugated board.
The FESPA Foundation announces Durst Group as its first official partner, to join the “Adopt a School” initiative and sponsor Malekapane Primary School in South Africa. The partnership aims to utilise the power of print to promote education and improve the lives of children in underserved communities.
