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Worldwide POP advertising expenditures at $44 billion.

I.T. Strategies, Hanover, Mass., estimates worldwide POP advertising expenditures were $44 billion in 2002. Analog printing technologies (screen, offset, flexo, gravure, and photo) make up more than three-fourths of the market; digital printing technologies (inkjet and electrophotography) make

up about 25 percent. The dominant print technology is screen with 46 percent of the market, followed by inkjet with 18 percent.

Suppliers of printing to the POP industry vary from large manufacturing companies that produce in-store displays, as well as packaging, to smaller companies that offer design services in addition to printing, and others that offer fabrication and installation services, as well as printing. What they have in common is they all offer products and services to brand manufacturers and retailers that want to influence the customer at retail.

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