Publisher’s PODIUM
News and Views THIS month sees a substantial retail cover price increase to $14, including GST. We never like doing this but are victims of massive price hikes from our suppliers, which we cannot adsorb. We’re not alone in this, as the tsunami effect of the COVID 19 pandemic has created massive rifts in the business community. At the foot of our increase is our printer’s 20% price increase. They are The Print Lounge and do a fabulous job of printing the magazine, and they look after us well, but in the last 18 months, there have been well published, significant shifts in global supply chains as well as many challenges within the printing industry. There are now fewer papermaking machines. Many paper mills throughout the world have either permanently ceased…