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St Ives plc is pleased to announce that it has made an investment in Sponge Limited, a leading provider of mobile marketing solutions.
The investment in Sponge represents a further step in St Ives' strategy to create a complementary range of digital and marketing services that will enable the Group to add value to existing and new clients.
Established in 2002, Sponge provides mobile marketing solutions and mobile services to a number of leading global brands including adidas, Coca Cola and McDonald's. The business employs 22 staff and is headquartered in central London. St Ives is investing in order to enhance the Group's ability to deliver marketing strategy and communications across a broad range of channels, whilst accelerating Sponge's expansion.
Following the investment, Sponge will work closely with St Ives but will continue to be managed by the existing management team from its current premises.
Date Added: Thu 29 March 2012
St Ives Group further strengthens its marketing services offer with the acquisition of Incite Marketing Planning Ltd
We are pleased to announce the acquisition of Incite Marketing Planning Limited, an industry leading market research and insights consultancy.
Date Added: Fri 2 March 2012
St Ives strengthens marketing services by acquiring Pragma
St Ives Group further strengthens its marketing services offer with acquisition of retail and consumer strategy company, Pragma.
Date Added: Tue 20 September 2011
St Ives Group strengthens it's marketing services offer with acquisition of data marketing company, Response One
Marketing services and print company, St Ives plc is pleased to announce the acquisition of Response One Holdings Limited.
Date Added: Tue 13 September 2011
St Ives Group sign exclusive three year
The St Ives Group is delighted to announce that it has signed an exclusive three year sole distributor agreement with Swedish company, Motion Display to supply Electronic Paper (e-paper) display technology in the UK and Eire.
Date Added: Fri 27 May 2011
SP helps store chain increase sales
Countrywide Farmers is a chain of 47 stores serving the rural community with everything from farming and equestrian supplies through to country clothing and Christmas gifts. The business has taken an innovative approach to increase sales by clever use of data and digital print to improve in-store promotional merchandising.
“Our product range has become varied and complex. We identified variable data printing as the most efficient way to manage price and promotional information,” says Rebecca Barningham, group marketing manager.
Date Added: Tue 8 February 2011
Biodegradable graphics for EDF sustainability project
Service Graphics, the large format print sister division of SP, has created a biodegradable graphic display for EDF Energy's customer contact centre. Service Graphic's innovative concepts, environmentally sound product knowledge and technological capabilities saw them selected to produce and install a permanent interactive sustainability room at EDF Energy's Doxford Park site. The room is designed to generate awareness and debate on sustainability and carbon reduction amongst employees and visitors.
Date Added: Tue 1 February 2011
Royal Mail stamp of approval for St Ives
20 September 2010 – St Ives’ Service Graphics division earned plaudits from Royal Mail recently for its contribution to a successful exhibit at the Festival of Stamps. St Ives printed, finished and installed graphics for Royal Mail’s stand at the eight-day event located at the Business Design Centre, Islington.
Date Added: Sat 20 November 2010
St Ives plc, SP’s parent company has today acquired market leading database marketing services company Occam DM Ltd.
St Ives has today announced the acquisition of one of the UK’s leading database marketing companies, Occam DM Ltd. The deal will expand St Ives’ offering and extend its already wide range of marketing support and print services into data driven marketing and data insight services.
Date Added: Tue 1 June 2010
St Ives implements Epicor software
St Ives Group today announced that they will be implementing Epicor next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite. The Epicor solution will replace St Ives’ existing core financial solutions and a bespoke planning solution within the Service Graphics Division.
As part of a review of its financial and ERP systems, the company sought greater instant visibility of the business and efficiency savings through the standardisation of processes and systems.
Date Added: Tue 25 May 2010
Pizza Hut enhances marketing efficiency and campaign successes using DNA from St Ives
SP Group, the leading provider of POS, POP and related services (part of St Ives plc), has implemented its online campaign management system, DNA, into the marketing and production operation of UK restaurant chain, Pizza Hut.
Utilising DNA, Pizza Hut now has one centrally managed, online marketing resource, providing better visibility and control of point of sale campaign allocation, and streamlining the production process for significant production savings. The system also enables Area Managers to personalise marketing campaigns for individual restaurants to support local store marketing activity.
Date Added: Thu 8 April 2010
St Ives appoints former Southernprint talent for strategic business development
St Ives is pleased to announce the appointments of Charles Jarrold and Jamie Booth, as Group Business Development Directors.
Date Added: Tue 9 February 2010
SP Group..... be inspired.........
We continue to supply fresh and creative production solutions for retail and point of sale applications and are renowned for turning the most creative and challenging design concepts into reality, as demonstrated in this special showroom produced for fashion brand H&M.
Date Added: Fri 18 December 2009
Service Graphics & SP Group create bags of impact
When our clients want to grab attention we can make it happen - this piece of promotional theatre for Sainsbury's Finance has, undeniably, plenty of impact. Two of our divisions Service Graphics Wandsworth and SP Group Redditch combined their skills to produce these massive recreations of shopping bags.
Date Added: Wed 16 December 2009
To illustrate the range of our services, of necessity, we have reproduced customers' registered and unregistered trade marks and representations of their brands. The rights that our customers have in their respective trade marks and brands are fully acknowledged.