Tag: Europe

Williams Lea wins Capital One job

Posted by | Feb 9, 2006 | |

Williams Lea has secured a multi-million pound three-year contract to handle the design, print and distribution for Capital One’s transactional mail. The London-based print management group won the deal following a competitive tender process. The three-year contract has an option to be extended for a further two years. A Williams Lea team will be based on-site at Capital One’s Nottingham headquarters, providing support to the firm’s design and print teams. Under the terms of the deal, the firm will handle design, including brand and content management, print procurement, including customer correspondence, security print and statements as well as document composition and postage.

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The Print Factory rebrands as it pursues GBP100m 2006 turnover

Posted by | Feb 9, 2006 | |

The Print Factory is set to rebrand its group operations as TPF Group, as it aims for a £100m turnover in 2006. According to chief executive Steve Brundle, the exercise “will enable us to step up yet another level”. The Northampton-based group will unveil its new look at a glittering party tonight for 150 guests at the official opening of its digital print and repro facility in Brentford, West London. “It feels like the past 15 years have been building up to this week,” said Brundle. The new structure is broken down as follows: TPF Business Solutions encompasses the group’s print management and facilities management arms; TPF Creative is the name for the design and copywriting services; warehousing and distribution will now come under the TPF Logistics umbrella; and the group’s transactional and direct mail will fall under TPF Direct. The Print Factory name will live on as the moniker for the group’s commercial print operation.

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Express Delivery Service Connects With Europe

Posted by | Feb 8, 2006 | |

TOOLES Transport, based in Droitwich, has launched a new express delivery service for small consignments of goods to mainland Europe.

As a member of the Palletways distribution network, which has more than 100 depots in the UK, the company will now be able to distribute small consignments more cost effectively and faster than before to a vast European marketplace, inclu-ding Belgium, The Nether-lands, Luxemborg, Denmark, France and Germany.

This development has been made possible by Palletways fully integrating its UK network with the company’s operations in mainland Europe by linking up the IT systems across all the countries it serves.

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New rules for UK postcode database

Posted by | Feb 8, 2006 | |

Tougher guidelines are to be imposed on Royal Mail’s postcode service for businesses after concerns that some customers were being favoured over others.
Postcomm, the regulator, believes that some businesses were concerned that the Royal Mail’s postcode database, including updates, were not available to all users. The database of 27 million addresses helps businesses to quickly find much of a customer’s full address by using their postcode details only. The regulator is thought to be concerned that all businesses did not have access to regular updates of the database.
Royal Mail charges businesses a minimum of Pounds 750 a year for the service, with charges increased according to the number of registered users within each business.

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UK Royal Mail faces fine over crime outbreak

Posted by | Feb 8, 2006 | |

Royal Mail is to face a multimillion-pound fine and be censured over its recruitment procedures after outbreaks of organised crime at sorting offices, The Times has learnt. Postcomm, the regulator, is finalising its first action against Royal Mail for jeopardising “mail integrity” and is expected to levy a substantial fine in the next few days. The watchdog has found “a number of shortcomings”, but it is especially concerned about the use of agency staff by Royal Mail, which it feels were not scrutinised sufficiently. The report will ask Royal Mail to review its procedures. Large-scale crime at Royal Mail has been revealed several times in recent years through undercover investigations such as Channel Four’s Dispatches programme and by high-profile court cases.

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