Direct mail

Johnston Mailing has ordered three Canon imagePress machines in a £200,000 deal to help meet heavy demands for direct mail and edge it into new markets.

First Move Direct Marketing has become the UK's first buyer of the Xerox (8b-A62) Trivor 2400, the 20in (508mm) production inkjet web launched by the manufacturer at Drupa.

Leicester-based print group Taylor Bloxham has named a veteran of the paper merchanting industry as its new DM director with a view to doubling its DM operations within three years.

Ferag has premiered its collating and inserting line EasySert, which compiles advertising inserts into recipient-specific collections at Drupa (Hall 15, D25).

Sunderland-based leisure and gaming firm Edwardthompson is to enter a 30-day consultation with its 135-strong workforce on Monday 6 June.

Printer and mail services firm Critiqom has appointed former Bloxx chief executive Charles Sweeney to lead the £16m-turnover company.

Royal Mail has announced a new direct marketing hybrid print tool aimed at SMEs and a new photo printing app alongside its year-end results.

Despite Brexit fears, weak global growth and ongoing government spending cuts, spending on marketing rose in the first quarter of this year, according to research by The Institute of Practitioners in...

In this issue’s interview, GI Solutions’ Patrick Headley talks about the increasing need to make clients’ lives easier.

A sell-out group of print buyers was given an expert run-through of the benefits of inserts, and how to get the best out of them at a recent DMA event.