Mailing
Imail launches personalised greetings card app
UK Mail's hybrid mailing service, imail, has launched a new personalised greetings card app SWALK (Sealed With a Loving Kiss).
TCT increases card production capacity by 50% with new investments
Card manufacturer and mailing operation Thames Card Technology (TCT) has invested in an Atlantic Zeiser Cardline Versa and a Kurz C7000 High-Speed Hologram and Foil Blocking System to meet the demand...
Don’t write off DM yet, it’s getting smarter, not just smaller
On the face of it, last month’s annual Ofcom Communications Market Report would have made pretty grim reading for the print industry: volumes are down, direct mail spend is down and the CWU is issuing...
DMA warning on ad mail 'VAT timebomb'
Direct mail suppliers to charities and financial services businesses could face crippling backdated VAT bills according to the DMA, which has warned that many printers could be sitting on a "VAT...
Direct mail spend down 17.1% since 2009, says Ofcom
Advertising spend on addressed direct mail has fallen 17.1% in the past five years, according to the latest Communications Market Report from Ofcom.
Royal Mail cuts costs to offset parcel problems
Royal Mail’s share price slipped by 8.6p after it warned of increasing tough competition and price pressures in its UK parcel delivery operation in Q1.
The Envelope Works installs first five-colour press
The Envelope Works has completed the installation of two presses ordered as part of a £600,000 spend earlier this year, including its first five-colour press and its 10th two-colour press.
Royal Mail facing French competition probe
Royal Mail Group has notified the stock market that one of its subsidiaries, GLS France, is being investigated by French competition authority Autorité de la Concurrence.
Interview: 'If you’re not attacking your market, someone else will’
Dave Broadway has been managing director of CFH Docmail since the mid 1990s. The firm was founded by Broadway’s father, Geoff, in 1977, and he joined in 1980 after completing a degree in chemistry,...
Capita orders UK's first Impika web presses in £17m spend
Capita has invested £17m in a new 'white paper' print and distribution facility in Mansfield that will house the first two Impika inkjet web presses in the UK.