MRM Supporting Seasonal Promotions

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With only 80 days until Christmas it’s nearly time to start dusting off our elf outfits and preparing to support our client’s fun and creative seasonal promotions.

If there are aspects of your promotion that you are still looking to find the right supplier for MRM could be the company for you.

Please contact us if you would like to discuss your requirements or our suite of integrated services on 0844 99 12345.

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Thank You Voters!

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MRM would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who voted for us in the recent polling for the COGS Awards.

We have received confirmation that we have made it through to the second round and are busy preparing our written submissions to support your votes.

We will keep you updated with how we fair in the Handling & Fulfilment , Outstanding Company and Outstanding Individual categories.

In the meantime, if you have any handling or fulfilment requirements that you would like to discuss please contact us on 0844 99 12345

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A Gold Medal Performance?

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Massive congratulations from everyone at MRM to Jan Brown and Audrey Cooper from the Commercial Team who have recently submitted their final exam papers for the IPM Certificate in Promotional Marketing.

Our fingers are crossed for two golds at the graduation ceremony in October 2011!

If you would like to discuss your promotions with our experienced Commercial Team please contact MRM on: 0844 99 12345

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COGS Awards 2011 – MRM individuals nominated

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Wow – we’ve just seen the latest COGS Awards nominations list and MRM’s Client Services and Commercial team have the most individual nominations to date with 8 people nominated in the category of Outstanding Individual. They include:

- Peter Kerr - Managing Director

- Mel Kilbourne – Commercial Manager

- Yvonne King – Client Services Manager

- Jen Blagg – Client Services Manager

- Julie Townsend – Client Commercial Manager

- Marion Seeney – Client Commercial Manager

- Michael Irons – Client Services Administrator

- Sam Wolverson – Client Services Administrator

Please continue to vote for MRM as Handling & Fulfilment provider, Outstanding Company and Individual (if you agree!) as we really appreciate everyone’s votes and the competition is certainly tough this year so every vote really does help. Click here to vote or visit COGS Awards to see who’s been nominated to date.

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Easter planning

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Promotions Easter planning

Mail order fulfilment means strong resource planning especially at busy times

With 3 short weeks coming up, MRM Operations are busy resource planning to ensure we despatch all client orders over this busy period. Just because business will be closed over the Bank Holidays, we know that this is a prime time for consumers to interact with promotions, apply for competitions or order products online.

As a result, the Easter period is our second busiest, after Christmas – and we expect an increase of 50-75% on normal volumes over this period.

Mail order fulfilment and order processing is always turned round within a maximum of 24 hours of order receipt although we strive for same day despatch with 98% of orders.

Whilst consumers are relaxing over the extended Easter break enjoying chocolate eggs, days out and cake – the Easter bunny here at MRM will be hopping busily to ensure all orders are despatched on time!

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Promotional handling in 2011

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We’re just back after the New Year and already regular sales promotion agencies and FMCG brands are getting in contact to plan in their 2011 activity with MRM, the preferred supplier to UK brands and promotional marketing agencies.

Here in the Commercial team at MRM, we’re really excited about what 2011 will bring for us – we’ve got a strong team with many years of expertise in promotional marketing and relationship management and we’re planning to focus on these to develop our clients and deliver further advances in technology.

To keep in touch with us (even if you’re not yet an MRM client) – get in touch and we’ll put you on our mailing list! You can also follow us on Twitter @MRM_Ltd or even just pick up the phone and have a chat.

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Waiting for the snow

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Here in Market Harborough, in the centre of the UK at the fabulous promotional handling house that is MRM, we were all very excited first thing as we got into the office nice and early in anticipation of the promised heavy snow.

It all started well, with red skies (the old ‘shepherd’s warning tale was being spoken across the building) and cold weather but now, less than 3 hours later we’ve got clear blue skies and sunshine and not a snowflake in sight.

However some of our clients are not so lucky…Forestry Commission based up in Edinburgh have sent us some amazing photos of what can only be described as the biggest blanket of snow we’ve ever seen.

With promotional campaigns and mail order incredibly busy for us at this time of year for our DVD and book retailers – we’re working hard to ensure all orders are despatched on time as we work through express delivery options and do our utmost to make sure all those present orders arrive in time for Christmas.

….but we’re still disappointed that we don’t even have enough snow to make a snowman like we did last year…

Have you got snow where you live? Tell us about it and we’ll be even more envious!

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Promotional Handling – where your brand matters

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Promotional handling at MRM comes in many forms; from direct mail to consumers, warehousing and logistics of promotional items and sourcing of goods through to managing a distribution center for a sales promotion agency working on a major on pack promotion. Handling hundreds of sales promotion campaigns each year, MRM delivers multi channel fulfilment and logistics solutions to brands and agencies.

Each promotion in business is important in its own right – whether it requires promotional handling for B2C consumers or a brand’s B2B customers. The branding of product will usually involve a sales promotion agency working directly with a brand whilst the promotional handling house such as MRM will be contracted directly with the brand in many instances to provide control and ensure agreed standards in customer handling are maintained.

Promotional handling is a skilled market sector in its own right; it requires direct marketing experience and knowledge of brand guidelines to manage customer expectations whilst delivering a cost effective solution. If you have an outsourcing requirement for 2011, you should be talking to MRM now to seee how we can provide fulfillment management services for your promotional handling needs. Call Mel or Claire on 084499 12345

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Royal Wedding – response handling

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IMG 1087cr 150x150 Royal Wedding   response handlingWow – so there’s going to be a Royal Wedding next year for Prince William and his bride-to-be Princess Catherine…at MRM we’ve already spotted commemorative coins launched at the speed of light to cash (pardon the pun!) in on the event – how quick are other brands going to be to get to market with their royal-themed merchandise and consumer promotions??

We’re thrilled – a Royal wedding will generate great tourism opportunities for the UK and a general feeling of excitement – so if you’re a brand planning a Royal-themed campaign, give us a ring (diamond or telephone) and we’ll give you a commemorative 10% discount off your next campaign* (excluding carriage/postage as unfortunately the Royal Mail aren’t as excited about this as us!).

Ring Julie or Claire on 084499 12345 to talk through your response handling campaigns and know that if you’re planning on sending out Royal memorabilia, or other prizes – MRM will make sure it gets there safely and on time!

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COG Awards – MRM nominated

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We’d like to say thanks so much to everyone who voted for us in the recent COGS Awards. Created by the Institute of Sales Promotion and Sales Promotion magazine, these are the Marketing Services Awards designed to recognise key suppliers in our industry.

MRM have been nominated in two key categories – Handling and Fulfilment. To learn more, please visit http://www.cogs-awards.co.uk/

The award ceremony is taking place on 17th June at Avenue in London – we’ll be there, keeping everything crossed – and we hope to see some of you there too.

Thanks again, we really couldn’t have done it without you!

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