IT industry continue to grow and TV producers

amsterdam - The IT industry is expected to remain as still benefit from the digitization wave in the Dutch business community. According to the economic office of ABN AMRO will have revenues down compared to a few years back again, and all the growth weakened in the industry coming years.

While the sector has enough demand, but at the same time struggling to fulfill this by a shortage of manpower in specific functions, such as data analysts and designers of industrial automation. There was also an increasing price pressure, according to experts of the bank.

ABN AMRO provides the IT industry revenue growth of 4.5 percent this year and 4 percent next year. Especially software and cloud services while doing good. In 2014 and 2015, however, was still showed good points of 7.1 and 9.5 percent, respectively. Last year it fell to 2.9 percent growth.

Also Dutch producers of movies and TV shows can according to ABN AMRO also look forward this year to 4.5 percent revenue growth, and in 2018 a plus of 3.5 percent. To attract viewers in recent years a lot of demand for high quality programs.

In the telecom sector, the publishing industry and the printing industry goes through changing revenue models for some time less. In the telecom charges the bank in 2017 and 2018 respectively 1.5 and 2 percent shrinkage. With publishers and printers are provided with comparable store sales declines.