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Wright Moves to Lettershop
Cliff Wright has moved to the Lettershop Group as Business Development Manager. Alistair Ezzy, Lettershop’s Sales Director says “It’s great to have Cliff on board at TLG. He has a wealth of experience in the print arena and in particular publishing, inserts and POS which will complement the existing team and drive new sales for …
Whistl and The Lettershop Group – Intelligent Acquisition Seminar
Date: 5th September 2019Time: 1.30pm – 4.30pmVenue: Whistl G Park, Wallis Way, Bedford MK42 0PE Intelligent Acquisition Seminar – 5th September Book Now Are you looking for intelligent ways to acquire new customers? For the latest updates, information and ideas, don’t miss our seminar on 5th September 2019. Be there to hear from leading industry …
PRESS RELEASE: Reach PLC places further magazine printing contract with YM Group
24 JUNE 2019 PRESS RELEASE: Reach PLC places further magazine printing contract with YM Group Reach plc has placed a further contract with YM Group for production of three weekly magazines: • new! magazine newsstand edition – now printing at YM Chantry • new! magazine multipack edition – a self-cover version also printing at …
YM Group in Partnership with PPA
YM Group in Partnership with PPA The YM Group were proud to be a Premier Partner for the PPA (Professional Publishers Association) Festival this month, which was held at Tobacco Dock, London. Over 600 industry professionals and 80 guest speakers gathered to debate and discuss the big questions facing consumer magazine and business media brands …
Customer Experience Day 2019
Customer Experience Day 2019 Thursday 14th March 2019 saw the YM Group hold it’s much anticipated annual Customer Experience Day at it’s Pindar factory in Scarborough. This educational and awareness day attracted the largest attendance to date with over 45 key customers and prospects in attendance across the retail, mail order and publishing sectors. Delegates …
Fair Trade Furniture brand, Myakka go live with Go Analyse
Fair Trade Furniture brand, Myakka go live with Go Analyse Fair Trade Furniture brand, Myakka have appointed Go Direct Marketing as their strategic direct marketing agency. Go Direct Marketing’s Client Services and Analytics team will work with Myakka across their offline customer retention and new customer acquisition strategies. Myakka’s data will be held within the …
YM Group Secures Long Term Reach Contract
YM Group Secures Long Term Reach Contract Reach plc and YM Group have signed a long-term contract for the production of two weekly magazines, We Love TV, for the Saturday edition of the Daily Mirror and Notebook for the Sunday Mirror. As part of this deal, Reach plc has extended the YM Group’s term for …
YM Group Joins BPIF in Apprenticeship Recruitment
The YM Group are joining the BPIF (British Printing Industry Federation) and several of their other members, at the Leeds Apprenticeship Recruitment Fair, to be held at the First Direct Arena on 4th March. This is supporting National Apprenticeship Week 2019. We will be on hand at Stand 25, to discuss the apprenticeships and opportunities …
YM Group appoints Ezzy to business development role
YM Group appoints Ezzy to business development role YM Group has bolstered its business development team with the appointment of former GI Solutions managing director Alistair Ezzy. Ezzy will start in the newly created role as a director within the business development team next week. He had stepped down from his role at GI Solutions, …
The Guardian opts for compostable wrap
The Guardian opts for compostable wrap The Guardian is switching from poly wrap to compostable wrap for the supplements bag that goes out with its Saturday edition Editor-in-chief Katharine Viner announced the move via Twitter on Friday. The media group is using compostable wrap made from potato starch by Alfaplas in Hereford, with wrapping of …
RHS turns to YM for paper wrap solution
RHS turns to YM for paper wrap solution The Royal Horticultural Society will become the first large publisher to do away with poly wrap entirely when it switches to paper wrapping with the March issue of its flagship magazine Print and production services manager Diana Levy said the gardening charity had been investigating potential alternatives …
Shellard Boosts Group Sales
The YM Group are pleased to welcome Paul Shellard to the team as Group Sales. Paul joins YM from Elcograf – an Italian printer, where he spent 3 years working with many of the UK’s leading mail order and retail brands. Paul has extensive print experience having worked across the packaging, sheet fed, web offset …
Lettershop Hits the Streets
Partially Addressed Mail Lettershop Managing Director Simon Cooper was one of a great list of presenters today at the ‘DISCOVERING NEW DONORS BY REDISCOVERING DIRECT MAIL SEMINAR’ organised by Royal Mail MarketReach and WPN Chameleon. Royal Mail’s new Partially Addressed mail product, which has been on trial, was a hot topic across speakers from …
Stay Secure with Go Direct
GDM has successfully gained the ISO 27001 Certification for Information Security Management. By achieving this internationally recognised certification, GDM has demonstrated its commitment to data protection and continuous improvement. Ali Child, Client Services Director said, ‘We’re delighted to have gained this certification as it provides assurance to our clients, staff and suppliers alike that we …
Seal of Excellence for the YM Group
BPIF Health & Safety Seal of Excellence The YM Group is proud to announce that all four of its operational companies – YM Chantry Ltd, Pindar Scarborough Ltd, The Lettershop Group and York Mailing Ltd – have all recently successfully gained the BPIF Seal of Excellence for Health and Safety Peter Greaves, Managing Director of …
Pindar Does it Again
Home Retail Group awards YM Group with “Job of the Year 2018” 1st November 2018 | Categories: YM Group | Tags: 2018, Award, Home Retail Group, Sainsbury’s Argos YM Group has, for the second consecutive year, been awarded “Job of the Year 2017” in the Home Retail Group’s (HRG) internal print awards. This prestigious award …
Halloween Mailer 2018
It’s Halloween and here are some scary statistics on plastic in our lives: The world uses over 300M tonnes of plastic per year (UNEP) Up to 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die each year from eating plastic (Monterey Bay Aquarium) By 2050 the amount of plastic in the world could …
YM Group wins Direct Commerce Innovator Awards 2018
YM Group has won the “Creative, Content & Print Production” category in the Direct Commerce Innovator Awards 2018. The awards, which are organised by the Direct Commerce Association, are designed to “enable trailblazing suppliers to bring their innovative solutions and services to the attention of the entire Direct Commerce community”. This prestigious award was given …
Tom Kilroy joins YM Group
The YM Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Kilroy who has joined their Senior Leadership Team as Group Business Development Director. Group CEO Steve Goodman says “We are delighted to welcome Tom on board. He will be a tremendous asset with his Group wide remit and will play a pivotal role in …
Not so plastic fantastic
Simon Cooper, Managing Director at Lettershop comments on Paper Wrap in the recent article “Not so plastic fantastic” in Print Business.
Negate the rise in paper prices by choosing short grain print
Short grain printing could provide an opportunity to negate the costs incurred by paper price increases expected from paper manufacturers. The press configuration at YM Group offers both long and short grain printing options so clients can choose from a variety of formats, all printed to the highest quality standards. Rob Moules, Sales Manager, explains …
A digital journey with Lettershop
Simon Cooper, Managing Director at The Lettershop Group in Leeds, United Kingdom, recently shared his thoughts on the Lettershop Group’s Digital Print Journey. Simon is enthusiastic about the results so far and excited about what the future holds for The Lettershop Group (TLG) and the print industry. Read below to learn a little more about …
Robin Skinner joins Lettershop
Lettershop has recently welcomed Robin Skinner to the team as Business Development Manager. Robin has spent the last 11 years at Eclipse 4DM and, prior to that, worked for Colorgraphic (Vertis) for 14 years. Lance Hill, Sales Director is delighted that Robin has joined the team, ““I had to wait a bit of time to …
Direct Commerce Summit 2018
The 2018 Direct Commerce Summit was held on 14 June at the Hurlingham Club, London. Delegates from the retail industry attended seminars and round table discussion groups, hearing about the latest developments in retail and home shopping. Debbie Conetta, Head of New Business, Go Direct Marketing explains, “The DCA Summit is a great opportunity for …
Customers enjoy Print Training Day at YM Group
The YM Group hosted a customer print training day on 15 March at Pindar Scarborough. This comprehensive programme introduced the world of print to over 40 retail, mail order and publishing customers. The informative sessions covered colour management, print and binding, creative mailing pieces and postal solutions, the power of door drops and finally how …
Plumo sign up with Go Direct and Go Analyse
Go Direct Marketing’s Client Services and Analytics team are working with Plumo on improving their customer retention and acquisition strategies. Plumo’s data will be held within the Go Analyse ‘live’ system – a user friendly web platform which provides invaluable data intelligence, real time reporting and instant KPI’s to retailers. Plumo sell a range of …
End to end campaign service for Crafter’s Companion
Crafter’s Companion are benefiting from a full end to end campaign service from Go Direct Marketing. They undertook their first mailing in July and are planning further mailings during the Autumn/Winter season. Go Direct Marketing works closely with Crafter’s Companion to target existing customers and new prospects to generate new business.
Business team expands at Go Direct Marketing
Go Direct Marketing’s new business team has been strengthened with the appointment of Debbie Conetta as Head of New Business and Ben Defrates as Sales Manager. Debbie brings a wealth of experience from the direct to consumer channel having previously worked at Epsilon Abacus and latterly More2. She has a great understanding of data and …
Argos awards YM Group with Job of the Year 2017
YM Group has recently been awarded the prestigious “Job of the Year 2017” in the Home Retail Group’s (HRG) internal print awards. The award was given by the Argos Print Buying team. Several years ago, the Argos Print Buying Team introduced an internal scoring system for every job printed. Each job is scored against important …
Short grain print press at YM Chantry
The YM Group has recently increased its print capability by investing in a Goss Sunday 5000 64pp short grain press at YM Chantry, growing production capacity at the site by around 40%. This is the group’s fifth short grain press confirming its position as leading short grain print provider in the UK. Norman Revill, Group …
Bamboo uses Go Analyse for real time customer data
Go Direct have worked with Bamboo Clothing for nearly 4 years helping them with their direct marketing strategy on both retention and acquisition. In this time their turnover has grown 6 times from 1.5 million to 6 million and revenues are projected to exceed 8 million this year. Bamboo have now started to use Go …
Antoinette Cragg joins the print apprenticeship scheme at Pindar
17 year old Antoinette Cragg (Toni) has joined the expanding press room team at Pindar. Toni initially started to study for her A levels at the local sixth form college but decided that she would prefer to pursue a practical apprenticeship. Seeing the advert on the National Apprenticeship website she applied and was successful in …
Pindar’s Becky Colling joins the GDM team
Becky Colling has joined the Go Direct Marketing team as a Senior Account Executive. Becky who previously worked in the customer services team at group company, Pindar, brings with her a wealth of print knowledge and experience. Ali Child, Client Services Director sees many advantages with the move, “It’s great that employees can move within …
National Apprenticeship Week 6-10 March 2017
National Apprenticeship Week will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The week is designed to celebrate the positive impact apprenticeships and traineeships have on individuals and the economy. The week will bring together apprentices and employers to demonstrate the benefits that an apprenticeship can bring, including the opportunity to build a successful career. It …
Pindar (part of the YM Group) wins Catalogue Printer of the Year 2016 Award
Pindar continued re-affirmed its position as the UK’s leading web offset catalogue printer winning the PrintWeek Catalogue Printer of the Year 2016 award. The judging panel for this category described the printed submissions ‘as a showcase of the print skills, it was quite simply unbeatable”. Pindar emerged victorious for having ‘attained excellent results across difficult …