Royal Mail promo for BemroseBooth

Vertis and BemroseBooth have produced 13.75m <i>Lord Of The Rings</i> gamecards for the Royal Mail as part of its Christmas promotion.

BemroseBooth managed the project for Royal Mail, outsourcing the bulk of the print work to Vertis in Leicester one of the companies it regularly uses for this type of work.

BemroseBooth itself printed the significant prize cards, which included one grand prize of 1m, five 10,000 prizes, 10 holidays and 20,000 special-edition watches.

It used specialist security printing and finishing equipment, similar to the processes involved in its production of Vodafones pre-paid phone cards. This ensured that the five specific security elements, designed by agency Claydon Heeley Jones Mason, were in place.

BemroseBooth also produced the plastic sleeves, which flow-wrapped the cards with packets of 12 first-class seasonal stamps, printed by De La Rue.

BemroseBooth business development director Andy Blundell said: It is typical of the way we work with clients now, in a wider role as opposed to just supplying a product. We are a main provider to Royal Mail in its parcel and security supply chain, but we are also able to take on a project that isnt within our immediate core.

It took two weeks to complete the job, and the campaign runs from 5 November-21 December.

Story by Rachel Barnes