Direct mail

Paragon Customer Communications has achieved the ultra-strict Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) at its Bristol and Dagenham sites.

Communisis has confirmed that it has won the HSBC marcomms work previously handled by St Ives, alongside interim results where print margins have increased to double-digits.

Direct mail house First 4 Direct Mail (F4DM) has become one of the first UK companies to take the Riso ComColor GD9630 cut-sheet printer.

Direct mail service provider Howard Hunt has become the first company in the UK to take the new Pegasus 320 friction feeder.

Five former Anton Group directors have been charged with Cheating the Public Revenue.

Direct marketing specialist Gecko Direct has seen a widescale boost in production since installing its third Indigo after breaking an EMEA productivity record.

Central Mailing Services (CMS) has continued its year of heavy investment with a £65,000 spend on a Norpak polyprocessor and a Morgana Major folder.

Berkshire-based Keeps Printing has fallen into administration, leading to five redundancies.

Adare Group has revamped the executive management structure at its Adare SEC operation with the appointment of a new CEO.

Anton Group owed trade creditors £6.9m and had an estimated total shortfall of almost £13.4m when it collapsed earlier this year.

Parcel volumes are up at Royal Mail but business uncertainty has hit letter volumes, with marketing mail revenue substantially down.

Whistl, the UK’s second-largest delivery company, has announced Zurich Insurance and Yorkshire Building Society as new clients as well as renewing several existing contracts.