Direct mail

Former St Ives director Neil Evans has joined DMS Agency as its new chief executive.

You could blame Amazon; its relentless focus on shortening delivery times infected the rest of high-street retail and ultimately spread further afield, including to print.

Direct mail service provider Howard Hunt has installed the second of two Böwe Systec Fusion Cross high speed inserting systems at its Dartford site and is considering a third.

US group DST Systems has confirmed that it expects the sale of its UK customer communications business to be completed by the summer.

Communisis has spent around £1.5m on Pitney Bowes inserting lines to ramp up its mailing flexibility.

CMS started in 1996 when a few rugby club friends started discussing a suggestion by current chairman, Tim Tucker, “over a round of bitter lemons”.

Whistl is to relocate to a new ‘super depot’ in Bolton, in a move that it says will create 33% extra capacity in its north of England operations.

GI Solutions Group has bought Eclipse Web, which includes Eclipse Colour, Eclipse 4DM and Direct Link, in a deal that creates a circa £80m print powerhouse.

Imprimus, the recently rebranded Stralfors UK, is developing a partnership with Office Depot subsidiary, Vital Communications.