MailSource UK extends its digital processing capabilities with the acquisition of Graphic Data

MailSource UK Ltd (www.mailsource.co.uk) has today announced the acquisition of the document processing business of Graphic Data UK Ltd, further expanding its capability to provide outsourced document processing to its clients.

Founded in 1979, Graphic Data provides off-site digital processing of paper-based and electronic information for over 700 corporate clients, including Coca-Cola, Whitbread, Equity Insurance, Scottish and Newcastle and Sodexho. Graphic Data provides its clients with services that automatically capture, process and distribute corporate information, including credit card and mortgage applications and claims, as well as purchase invoices, as outsourced business processes.

Both MailSource UK and Graphic Data are specialists in their fields and have historically provided complementary services. MailSource UK, a subsidiary of Swiss Post, has a strong base in the outsourcing of physical mailrooms and related services and the acquisition is a natural evolution of MailSource UK’s growing service provision in digital mailroom management. The integration of the two established skill-sets – physical mailroom and digital information management – will provide clients with an unparalleled level of combined expertise and service delivery.

Both companies are active in a wide range of industry sectors, including public sector, healthcare, financial services, professional services and retail.

Markus J Becker, Chief Executive, MailSource UK believes that client investment in the past couple of years in technology that automates the capture and flow of paper-based documents is changing the way information is handled internally by business:

“Our user population has varying needs when it comes to the flow of information in support of internal business processes and MailSource UK is the recognised leader in the provision of mailroom and related services, providing a variety of solutions for meeting this demand. This includes having the capability to manage the complete lifecycle of the corporate record, by providing internally and externally managed services and if requested being able to provide an outsourced service for a business process that has traditionally been managed in-house.

“By evolving our services and offering comprehensive and complete mail and document management- both physical and digital – we are able to enhance the value of that information to our clients. The information becomes more valuable as it’s readily available at a time and in a place appropriate to the business need. The goal of this acquisition is to deliver even greater efficiencies along these lines for our clients, with physical and digital document management being provided by just the one expert supplier, MailSource UK.”

Graphic Data works with some of the world’s largest organisations, which is testament to the investment in technology and people made by Managing Director, Mike Davies in the past 19 years. Davies believes that the time is now right for the next stage of Graphic Data’s development:

“We have worked alongside MailSource UK for a number of years and see the merger as a logical development of our services. By coming together we can provide our clients with further opportunities for operational and financial savings, offering wide-ranging support for Document Process Outsourcing (DPO). It’s fair to say that the combined expertise of our teams is unrivalled within the document processing industry. With regard to the Records Management business, Sala International Ltd, this has not been acquired and will continue to benefit from investment and the associated growth.”

About MailSource UK
MailSource UK is a subsidiary of the Swiss Post and a leading provider of innovative, technology driven solutions for mailroom management. We provide integrated digital mailroom management solutions helping our clients manage efficiently their internal and external mail and documents. Our expertise and technology enables our clients to leverage and exploit physical and electronic information distribution in support of automating business processes to deliver cost effectiveness and operational efficiency.

Our bespoke portfolio of industry-led solutions includes iTrak (Track and Trace), uBook (Courier Management) and uFile (Archive Management).

We have more than 100 clients using our solutions and these include many of the biggest public and private sector organisations operating today.

Across Europe and the US the MailSource Group employs almost 2500 staff servicing over 250 locations.

For more information, please visit www.mailsource.co.uk

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