Cimpress plc (CMPR)

Online printing plants, mostly in Europe. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026, filed August 7, 2026. Ranked 8 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 16,000 full-time and 500 temporary employees across decentralized printing businesses, Vistaprint, PrintBrothers, The Print Group and National Pen, with 100 in central activities.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 27% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 38% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 14% people work and 48% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 60% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 26% becomes checking a model's work and 14% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

16,500 employees as of June 30, 2026 (sum of stated parts). Not stated; Europe is 50% of revenue and North America 46%.

The filing: “As of June 30, 2026, we had approximately 16,000 full-time and approximately 500 temporary employees worldwide.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 16,000 full-time and 500 temporary employees; about 100 in central activities; decentralized businesses with shared strategic capabilities; no hourly or union figure stated.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Printing and Related Support Activities, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Quad/Graphics, Inc. (QUAD, 10,100 employees)28% now, 42% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

22 sentences in the filing name AI. Twenty-two sentences: the company says it has been adopting machine learning and generative AI for design, personalization and merchandising with promising uplift in customer metrics, and sees AI among the technologies democratizing design for small business marketing.

• “There are three ingredients to mass customization applied to print applications: (1) web-to-print or e-commerce stores that offer a wide variety of customizable products, replacing more expensive and harder-to-scale physical stores with limited geographic reach; (2) software-driven order aggregation, which enables significantly reduced costs to produce low-volume orders; and (3) democratized de...”
• “We believe that there is an ongoing revolution in graphic design for small business marketing, one in which a combination of technology tools, artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning, and convenient access via two-sided marketplace platforms to professional freelance design talent (including from low-cost countries) will continue a multi-decade democratization of design that has bee...”
• “We have been adopting machine learning and generative AI capabilities for design and personalization to facilitate content creation and matching across a wide variety of products, personalized merchandising and more, showing promising uplift in key customer metrics and financial outcomes.”
• “Security threats continue to evolve and become more sophisticated and more difficult to detect and defend against, including by the increased use of artificial intelligence, deepfakes, synthetic media, and other automation to enhance attacks, and our vulnerabilities may be heightened by our decentralized operating structure and many of our employees working remotely.”
• “In addition, the regulatory landscape is constantly changing, as various regulatory bodies throughout the world enact new laws concerning privacy, data retention, data transfer, data protection, cybersecurity, online tracking, targeted advertising, and the use of AI and machine learning, including possible limitations on our ability to use customer data.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20231median 1
• Fiscal 202410median 4
• Fiscal 202521median 10
• Fiscal 202622

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The total is the sum of the stated full-time and temporary employees (rule 2).
• No count by business: the printing plants and online operations are read at commercial printing by description (c), National Pen at its revenue share.
• The 100 in central activities are a stated corporate count, read at management of companies under rule 6.
• The U.S. share is not stated; North America is 46% of revenue.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001262976-26-000027, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.