Exclusive interview : what is Robert Keane's vision about online printing in 2020 (Cimpress)
Robert Keane, founder of Vistaprint and CEO of Cimpress As a new year is starting, I open a series of interviews of key leaders in online printing. I'm very glad to start with Robert Keane, Vistaprint founder and CEO of Cimpress, where I worked a couple of years ago. I had the opportunity to interview Robert to share his insights about where the online printing market is going in the next twelve months. Ludovic Martin : Hi Robert, thanks for accepting this interview. I'm really happy to talk with you about the trends in the web-to-print business. In 2019, major online print groups like Cimpress or Cewe saw a slowdown in their growth, while smaller companies were growing faster and raising funds. Do you think this trend will change in 2020 ? Robert Keane : “in fact, Cimpress’ European “upload and print” businesses had very nice growth in unit volume in 2019 even though our revenues grew slower in the past due to our price reductions. We expect to see a continuation of th...