Direct mail

Communisis sales top £350m

Sales at Communisis have leapfrogged those of St Ives after the group reported a sixth consecutive year of growth.

Howard Hunt joint managing director departs

One of Howard Hunt's joint managing directors will leave the business at the end of March.

GI Solutions secures high-speed inkjet first

GI Solutions Group has signed for its third high-speed inkjet, part of a £1.5m spend, as the firm inches towards two-thirds of its sales being digitally driven.

Public sees direct mail in fonder light, survey finds

Public perception of direct mail is improving, with almost half of consumers seeing it as good business communication, according to a recent survey.

Pepper founder Steven Whitford dies

Steven Whitford, founder of family-run Plymouth print and direct mail firm Pepper, has died aged 65.

Positive trading update from Communisis

Communisis has reported improvement across all of its performance metrics in a trading update released today (21 January) for the financial year to 31 December 2015.

CitySprint focuses on growth with Imprint-MIS investment

CitySprint Document Solutions is this week booting up a new management information system (MIS) to help streamline digital, mailing and distribution work.

The Mailing People aims for continued growth with double Xerox buy

Direct mail specialist The Mailing People has bought a Xerox Nuvera 144 and Versant 2100 to increase its capacity and enable it to cope with rapid growth.

New year predictions: Malcolm Lane-Ley, Anton Group

As chief executive of the print industry’s largest Employee Ownership Trust, it’s hardly surprising that Malcolm Lane-Ley is looking forward to some splendid isolation at the wheel of his track day...

Royal Mail shares rise after interims

Royal Mail’s revenues from marketing mail grew by 3% in the first half of the year, boosted by an increase in DM spend and in its own data activities.

HMRC deadline looms for DM suppliers

Printers have until the end of the month to register with HMRC if they have inadvertently treated elements of direct marketing projects as zero-rated for VAT in the past, and want to avoid...

OOH and direct mail adspend grows as other print sees decline

Advertising spend in printed newspapers and magazines continues to decline but out-of-home (OOH) and direct mail spend has risen, according to industry figures.