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Royal Mail extends mailing incentive scheme

Royal Mail has extended its ‘Open for Business’ incentive six-fold and warned that the scheme, which incentivises businesses to use mailings to rebuild their revenue streams as lockdown eases, has...

Booker: Our team has gone the extra yard

Postworks scales up for fivefold Covid growth

Hybrid mail specialist Postworks has successfully moved to a larger production facility during lockdown, as it ramps up capacity to support a fivefold increase in demand due to businesses and...

More than 400 courses have now been fully funded

DM Trust and DMA triples training furlough fund

The DM Trust Home Learning Fund has pumped in £400,000 of additional funding to triple the number of furloughed staff it can support with free training after it was inundated with applications,...

Encore's new embossing system can create an all-over embossed pattern

Encore Envelopes expands offering

Encore Envelopes has begun producing envelopes with a wider range of coatings and embossing options to increase the potential for clients to stand out from the crowd.

Rico Back: began and ended his tenure as CEO amid controversy

Under-fire Back steps down at Royal Mail

Royal Mail has parted company with controversial CEO Rico Back with immediate effect.

Funding is available to employees of DMA member and non-member firms

Training fund launched for furloughed staff

The Data & Marketing Association (DMA) and charity the DM Trust have joined forces to launch a £200,000 free training initiative to support furloughed staff in the direct marketing industries,...

Donovan: This is a lifeline for those that need to communicate

Royal Mail scheme to incentivise mailings

The direct mail industry has welcomed Royal Mail’s incentive scheme to encourage businesses suffering as a result of the coronavirus crisis to use mailings to rebuild their revenue streams.

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Tecnau launches new line as IFS ploughs on

Tecnau has launched a new plough-fold cut and stack finishing system for high-speed inkjet webs that UK agent IFS described as a “gamechanger” for digital book production.

Royal Mail CEO Rico Back: remote working

Calls for Royal Mail CEO to work in UK

Royal Mail chief executive Rico Back is under fire for working from home – because the home in question is a luxury penthouse in Switzerland.

Fox Marketing Services MS: lease issue plus drop in sales of over 85%

Fox MC shuttered after virus 'killer blow'

Fox Marketing Services MC has gone into voluntary liquidation after being hit with an unexpected property lease issue just as the coronavirus crisis resulted in a dramatic drop-off in order levels.