Marketing

Richard Bell, Chris Turner, Ben Pigott, Kalvin Burt and Pauline Kay with Dimitri Kyprianou (front row, centre)

Go Inspire strengthens leadership team amid year of growth

Marketing specialist Go Inspire has made five strategic senior hires over the past few months to support its focus on growth and innovation.

Jacobs has a history of scaling smaller businesses through acquisition

Footprint picks up pace of acquisition strategy with Swindon’s C3

Hampshire marketing and print house Footprint has expanded its reach with the acquisition of C3 Marketing, a Swindon wide-format and events business.

Consumers said they were significantly more likely to read a letter than an email

JICMail and Origin conduct mail measurement pilot study

JICMail and ISBA’s cross-media measurement programme Origin are conducting a mail measurement pilot study.

(L-R) Bowe UK/ROI MD Andy Wain with  Go Inspire Leicester site director Darren Lyall

Go Inspire ups capacity with Bowe investment

Marketing specialist Go Inspire Group has taken on its second Fusion Speed inserter from the Bowe Group to cater for increased mailing volumes realised through further contract wins.

Google's new plan is to allow third-party cookies, in parallel with its own system

Google’s cookie flip-flop a hiccup for mailers

Google has abandoned its plan to block third-party cookies from its Chrome browser, four years after announcing it would do so, in a move that bolsters digital advertisers' position.

Q2 2024 saw a net increase of 17.2% in the companies expanding their events budgets

Strongest marketing budget growth to benefit wide-format and mail

The UK has seen its strongest upward revision to marketing budgets in a decade, with companies’ financial prospects at their most positive in nearly three years, according to new research.

Ward (R): "We understand the rules of retail marketing and how to break them"

Altavia merges creative and production agencies

Retail marketing group Altavia has merged two of its subsidiary agencies into a single entity, called Altavia UK.

(L-R) Phil Newton, Rob Newton and new managing director Melissa Shackleton

PSE appoints new managing director

Family-run business PSE Agency has appointed Melissa Shackleton in the new role of managing director, marking the team’s first executive shake-up since the company was formed 30 years ago.

Boon leaves Webmart after 18 years, most recently as its CEO

Ex-Webmart CEO Richard Boon launches creative agency

Richard Boon, outgoing CEO at Webmart, has launched into his next venture with the founding of global content marketing agency Oh Six.

(L-R) Darren Crawford, Gabe Cooney and Lance Hill

Eight Group partners with CTC on Marketlayer acquisition

Eight Days a Week Print Solutions (EDWPS), currently repositioning to become Eight Group encompassing Eight Plus, has teamed up with Crawford Technology Consulting (CTC) to acquire creative digital...

96% are planning for an increased digital marketing spend in 2024

Connected packaging on the rise in 2024

Companies are overwhelmingly likely to connect their packaging production to their digital marketing or online presence according to new research, as they seek to gain extra value from their...

(L-R) James Fear and Alex Buck will support business expansion

Webmart expands into new sectors with senior appointments

Webmart has appointed two business development managers in newly created roles as it expands into the education and membership sectors.