Fifty per cent of the SMP board appear in the top 50 of a prestigious industry ‘who’s who’. Printweek’s 2021 Top 500 list rates nine of the 14-strong SMP board in the top 100. These include Paragon Customer Communications, who finished in the top spot, closely followed...
The annual SMP Summit returns to London on September 30th where members can meet to swap news and advice and also hear from Royal Mail on how together we can shape the future of mail. The keynote speaker will be Simon Thompson, the new CEO of...
The Strategic Mailing Partnership today launches its first ever mail performance awards, to recognise the contribution mailing houses make to the success of client campaigns. The awards are open to all SMP mail producers, irrespective of size of business and can be entered for any...
The Strategic Mailing Partnership (SMP), a professional body that represents and protects the interests of mailing houses across the UK, has announced details of a new partnership with JICMAIL that it says will allow members to secure platinum accreditations. JICMAIL is the Joint Industry Committee for...
Mailing houses will be able to achieve a new “platinum” company-level accreditation from direct mail measurement scheme Jicmail designed to flag up their expertise in using data and insight to enable customers to achieve better results from their postal activity.The programme, which is specifically for...
The Strategic Mailing Partnership has welcomed an Ofcom ruling that a new Royal Mail wholesale economy service should be VAT exempt. The move will enable members of the SMP, the industry body that represents UK mailing houses, to save money on mailings made through the recently...
The Strategic Mailing Partnership (SMP) has welcomed a ruling from watchdog Ofcom that a new Royal Mail wholesale economy service should be exempt from VAT. The ruling means SMP members will save money on mailings made through the new D+5 Letters access service, which defers mail...
Industry professionals have welcomed a series of free and heavily discounted training courses to enable mailing houses to make the most of the recent resurgence of direct mail....
The direct mail industry has thrown its weight behind Royal Mail’s decision to renew Covid-19 initiatives designed to reinvigorate the market following a wipe-out of activity in the first half of last year.The Strategic Mailing Partnership, the industry body that represents mailing houses across the...
Royal Mail’s new boss has vowed to develop “a razor-sharp focus” on its customers to ensure its services are delivering “exactly what customers need and want” after being handed the top role during what he admits has been a “challenging year”.Simon Thompson, the former managing...