Mailing

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.

At the end of last year the First 4 Group spent around £250,000 on a pair of new Italian-made envelope enclosing lines, a CMC 9000 and a smaller CMC 250, replacing a pair of older machines.