Direct mail

Direct mail and data house GI Solutions Group celebrated its 21st birthday last week with a Thames boat party and product launch.

Global MP managing director Jim McKie has left the business.

Domino has hinted that it could expand its inkjet printing systems into other packaging applications.

We’ve had [letterpress] printers and their cats, now, thanks to Google we have printers in hats.

A new report published by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) has measured, it claims for the first time, the combined number of printed media and third-party inserts placed in the UK.

Unite the Union is in talks with ministers in the Welsh Assembly over the possibility of a ‘rescue package’ to save litho printer Dobson & Crowther from axing a third of its workforce.

Latcham Direct has embarked on a £1m investment in new print equipment and a major hardware and software upgrade to its existing web-to-print capability.

The Communication Workers Union has given its support to an agreement, brokered before Christmas, that settles its long-running dispute with Royal Mail over pay, job security and pensions.

As a result of a 7% year-on-year decline in its web division, DST Output has completed a restructure at its Nottingham site that will allow it to focus on growth in its DM and promotional work.

CMC Machinery has upgraded its CMC 150 inserter, adding a self-mailer module that creates envelopes in-line from pre-printed sheets, in response to a customer request.