Ink World’s Coronavirus COVID-19 Impact Poll

With cases of novel coronavirus COVID-19 still on the rise, we wanted to see how it may be impacting our industry/readership specifically. Earlier this week we conducted an anonymous poll to gauge how companies are handling myriad issues – from travel to sales to supply chain – related to the spread of COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared as a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
 


Ink World’s readership is involved in all aspects of the coatings industry – from architectural coatings to industrial coatings and the raw materials and equipment to formulate them.

By business activity, poll respondents were comprised of those who manufacture inks (48%); suppliers (15%); distributors (16%); printers (13%) and other (5%), which includes consultants, academia, etc.
(Respondents were allowed to select more than one product category)

By job function, 30% a