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Advanced Mailing Solutions today were confirmed as being one of only a very few mailing houses in Scotland to have been accepted for membership into the Direct Marketing Association. This award follows a successful site inspection by the DMA Mailing House Council were the company's processes and procedures were verified as being compliant with the DMA Code of Practice.

Continual Development

However, membership does not just stop with a certificate on the wall. Being a member requires continual development and training to ensure that we as a company stay ahead of our competitors by continuing to adopt industry best practices and ensuring that our customer's campaigns continue to be carried out in line with recent (and future) legislative changes.

Market Intelligence

In addition, being a member provides us access to a wealth of market intelligence on the current and future direction of the direct marketing industry. This means that we have the information to help our customers achieve the most out of their direct marketing campaigns.

We are pleased to announce that Advanced Mailing Solutions is now QMP accredited.

What is QMP?

Quality Standard for Mailing Production (QMP) is an accreditation mark given to mailing houses that demonstrate a standard of quality throughout their production process.

It is a quality standard specifically developed to test the expertise and procedures of mailing houses to cope with client needs in the modern mailing environment.

What does it mean?

It demonstrates that the Mailing House who has accreditation takes its business seriously enough to prove to its clients that it has achieved at least a minimum standard of quality and has allowed itself to be tested and independently assessed.

To get it, mailing houses have to achieve a qualifying standard. To keep it, they have to demonstrate that they have maintained that standard by applying for annual re-assessment.

To find out more visit the QMP Website.

Two young East Kilbride-based entrepreneurs have walked away with a top business award and a cash boost.

Nicola Roome and Graeme McCreath of Advanced Mailing Solutions Ltd in East Kilbride, beat off the best business talents of Lanarkshire's best young start-ups to win the final of the prestigious Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust (PSYBT)/The Royal Bank of Scotland Business Awards.

Advanced Mailing Solutions provides clients with a promotional material mailing service in both small and large quantities.

Nicola has extensive experience of the direct mail industry and, coupled with Graeme's background in IT, the pair aim to expand the business with the purchase of further equipment and a move to bigger premises.

A panel of top judges from the local business community assessed the finalists on the sustainability of the business, future prospects, their technical capabilities, business skills and personal attributes.

Nick Johnston, The Royal Bank of Scotland Area Business Adviser said: "Nicola and Graeme have put a great deal of energy, enterprise and innovation into their business and are deserving winners."

Around 150 members of the East Kilbride Chamber of Commerce and their partners attended the annual summer ball in the East Kilbride Hilton Hotel. As part of the evenings ceremony was the presentation of the 'Young Entrepreneurial Company of the Year' award which this year was presented to local company Advanced Mailing Solutions.

The award, presented by Rolls Royce Marketing Director Graeme Waddell, aims to recognise young companies that are formed against a strong business plan and show real potential for future growth.

The Company, based in Nerston, specialise in providing Direct Mailing Services and have a customer base from a wide variety of market sectors.

On receiving the award, Advanced Mailing Solutions Director, Nicola Roome, said "It is a great honour for the Company to receive this award after just one year of trading".

She added, "We hope to build on the success of our first year's trading by continuing to offer our new and existing customers a high quality service"

Advanced Mailing Solutions, the East Kilbride-based Mailing House has been recognised at the annual Shell LiveWire Awards 2003.

The Shell LiveWire awards is an initiative run by Shell UK, in association with the Princes Scottish Youth Business Trust. The awards were conceived to develop, manage and share quality programmes which improve opportunities for people to realise their potential through the creation and development of business enterprises.

Although finally not going on to win the prestigeous "Shell LiveWire Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2003" award, Advanced Mailing Solutions were recognised for their achievements and as runners up for Lanarkshire took away a cash prize.

Nicola Roome, Director of Advanced Mailing Solutions said, 'We are grateful to receive this recognition from such an established national organisation. We are not too despondent in not taking home the main award, but we are just pleased that our efforts on developing a quality mailing house based largely on customer satisfaction have not gone unnoticed.'

She continued, 'This recognition just adds weight to our belief that business growth has to be built on the underlying customer satisfaction of the service we provide'