Mailing

Go Inspire Group is restructuring its Solutions site in Kettering following a strategic review, and will stop offering polywrapping services there with the potential loss of 77 out of 100 jobs.

In January 2018, a new ‘currency’ for measuring advertising mail engagement was launched, finally enabling the third-largest media channel in the UK according to ad spend to be considered by marketers...

First 4 has announced the closure of its Preston mailing site due to falling demand and “extremely difficult market conditions” in direct mail.

Border Business Systems (BBS) has started the year by launching a new partially-addressed online mailing service and taking on new premises to expand storage space.

Central Mailing Services (CMS) has kicked off the new year with £200,000 of new kit in order to achieve “virtually limitless” mailing capabilities and capacity.

A sharp drop in volumes of addressed letters has seen revenue at Royal Mail’s UK parcels, international and letters (UKPIL) business decline in a nine-month trading update.

CFH Docmail has made its first-ever investment in inkjet technology through a £3m, five-year contract with Canon to take on an Océ ColorStream 6000 Chroma.

Machinery supplier Engelmann & Buckham (E&B) has started to offer Italian manufacturer Sitma’s new Cobot 'collaborative robot' to the UK market.

Central Mailing Services (CMS) has invested £300,000 in a raft of new machinery as it continues to grow following its June move to a new circa-4,300sqm Birmingham base.

It started with single-use carrier bags, then progressed to plastic straws, water bottles and food packaging.