SMP News

09 Dec Prolific North: What I’ve Learnt: Judith Donovan CBE, Chair, Strategic Mailing Partnership

Posted at 09:57h in SMP News

Judith is Chair of the Strategic Mailing Partnership, the industry body that represents mailing houses across the UK, having founded one of the UK’s earliest direct marketing agencies in 1982, becoming one of Yorkshire's first female entrepreneurs in the process. She grew Judith Donovan Associates...

16 Oct Aleta Weir joins SMP board

Posted at 15:53h in SMP News

Aleta Weir has taken the third Royal Mail seat on the SMP board. Currently head of customer insight and compliance, Aleta has been with Royal Mail since leaving university almost 30 years ago. Describing herself as ‘London Scottish’ – she was born in Scotland but has...

30 Sep SMP members invited to share their thoughts on Royal Mail’s Universal Service

Posted at 10:29h in SMP News

On 8th September, Royal Mail published a trading update covering the first five months of this financial year. It explained that Royal Mail has seen a substantial shift in its business from letters to parcels. The latest figures show that parcel volumes are up 34%...

27 Aug Business Mondays: The Strategic Mailing Partnership Welcomes Move To Get The UK ‘Back To Business’

Posted at 09:58h in SMP News

Mailing houses professional body The Strategic Mailing Partnership has applauded a decision by Royal Mail to launch two new ‘back to business’ incentives to help companies hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. Running until the end of the year, the two advertising mail deals can play...

24 Jun Print Week: Royal Mail extends mailing incentive scheme

Posted at 10:50h in SMP News

Royal Mail has extended its ‘Open for Business’ incentive six-fold and warned that the scheme, which incentivises businesses to use mailings to rebuild their revenue streams as lockdown eases, has already reached 75% of the available allocation for October to December. The scheme, which was launched last...

01 Jun SMP welcomes Royal Mail greetings card partnership

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The Strategic Mailing Partnership has welcomed a joint project between Royal Mail and greetings card company Hallmark that encourages people to stay in touch through mail. Under the scheme, Hallmark UK & Ireland will give away half a million gratitude cards, that will be collected then...

23 Apr Mailing house industry continues to provide essential communications

Posted at 13:50h in SMP News

The Strategic Mailing Partnership, which represents UK mailing houses, has confirmed the industry remains operational, providing essential communications for the NHS, the Government, banks and utilities. SMP Chair Judith Donovan CBE said mailing houses had introduced a raft of safety procedures to enable them to continue to operate during the...

24 Mar A problem shared is a problem halved

Posted at 14:27h in SMP News

One of our SMP members has suggested that it could be helpful for you to flag up any under- or over-capacity issues in order to seek solutions from within the SMP membership. So if you’ve got spare machine time, or you desperately need 50K envelopes, why...

16 Mar Summit postponed until September

Posted at 13:15h in SMP News

This year’s SMP Summit, due to take place in London on April 1st, has been postponed until September. A decision was taken late last week that in the light of the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the summit would be postponed until later in the year. SMP Chair Judith Donovan CBE said:...

23 Dec SMP Chair and board members make print industry ‘who’s who’

Posted at 13:39h in SMP News

We are delighted that three SMP board members and our chair appear in this year’s Printweek Power 100 list. Patrick Headley, from Go Inspire, appears at number 19 while Simon Biltcliffe, of Webmart, takes the number 25 spot. Tony Strong, from Opus Trust Communicationss, is listed at number 71. SMP...