Glad to be gray

Less brash, less flash. That's the low-key message coming from several of the UK's top corporate printers about this year's batch of annual reports. The glum findings reflect a year of stock market turmoil and an accompanying tighter grip on the corporate saddlebag. 'Many companies have gone for a slight show of poverty,' says Stephen Wigglesworth, sales director for CTD Capita corporate printers. 'Some have definitely downsized their brochures, tried to cut out some of the glossy images.'