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Stay up to date with news and insight from The SMP, its members and the wider mailing industry.20 Aug In the news: SMP Board Member, Danny Clarke on promising market
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Danny Clarke, managing director of Howard Hunt Group’s eponymous manufacturing business and Graft print management, is a passionate man, writes PrintWeek. He’s passionate about the need to attract more bright young things into print, and positively evangelical about the sector’s need to sell itself on value...
14 Aug JICMail data – how to access it for members
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JICMail data is currently available for free until January 2019. Your clients can access this data through existing media planning tools already such as Telmar, Kantar Choices and Nielsen IMS, if they subscribe to these packages. There’s also two other ways to get the data: JICMAIL Data...
23 Jul Opportunities and challenges for envelopes in 2018 – industry insight
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Envelopes have been around for years, we all know that. But what does the future hold for envelopes? Here's Brett Hopper, Director of Opus Envelopes Ltd, to tell us more about what lies in-store for envelopes across 2018. The envelope industry is looking forward with guarded optimism...
13 Jul In the news: Ink price rise anticipation
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Ink manufacturers have rolled out the latest round of price increases citing “unprecedented trends” in the access to raw materials, with warnings that more increases could be on the way, reports PrintWeek. Flint Group has announced a 6% price increase in its offset energy curable inks...
26 Jun New magazine subscription mail service to launch
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Royal Mail (RM) has announced it is to launch a new magazine subscription mail service to meet the needs of publishers of consumer, business, membership and brand magazines. As some magazines have been experiencing growth in subscriptions, others struggling with reduced advertising revenue and a tougher...
25 Jun In the news: ‘Firms more worried about World Cup effect than GDPR’
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SMP Chair, Judith Donovan CBE, gives her views on GDPR, the new additions to the SMP Board - and how the World Cup would impact upon the sector. Speaking to PrintWeek, our Chair chatted exclusively to journalist, Jez Abbott, about the introduction of four Board members...
13 Jun Publishing Volume Commitment Incentive: Entry Level Reduction
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We are pleased to announce that we are decreasing the minimum volume entry level for the Publishing Volume Commitment incentive from 500,000 mail items to 250,000 mail items with immediate effect. This means that any customer who has sent 250,000 publishing mail items in the...
08 Jun SMP brings together industry forces to highlight manufacturing improvements
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Postal leaders took to the stage of the Strategic Mailing Partnership’s (SMP) ‘Technical Summit’ event to hail the progress made to ensure mail processes continue to provide a high-quality service for clients and customers. The SMP’s second annual event saw a packed audience of over 70...