sps group news: vision - may 2016
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Perfect Colour matching every time!
Expanding our digital print offering
Major expansionMauve helps expand our warehouse capacity
How our new & improved mauve can save you even more
Reducing time, cost & stress for retailers
Specsavers renew contract with SPS
Working together for over 15 years
Our designers get a redesign
A brand new makeover for Clockworx
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Mauve is the new blackGROUP
Success stories
700+ STORES
3 weeks of time reduced to
only 3 hrsper promotion
220+ STORES
Savings of
200 hrs per month
EXPERT ENGINEERING
22%For 30,000 display boxes
Generated costs savings of
We are pleased to announce that in October 2015 we installed the first new iGen 5 in the country. You might well ask why? Not only does it print 30% faster but the improved colour accuracy is awesome!
The iGen is a perfect machine for printing your shelf edge labels, tags, tickets, posters, signage up to SRA3, perfectly matching your brand colours, every time and increase your speed to market.
The iGen also works in sync with our online retail software Mauve, streamlining the design to print process through our automated artwork online tool.
Spoilt for choice Sweet Colour matching every time with our new iGen5 press
What can the iGen 5 produce?
Price Tickets
Flyers
Posters
Brochures
Direct Mail
Business Cards
Folders
Postcards
Stickers
Folded Leaflets
Try out the colour for yourself!
Contact [email protected] to schedule your print job today Toby Martin, Director, SPS Group
“The iGen 5 Press allows perfect colour matching meaning high quality, on brand work every time. This will enable us to broaden our range of services and grow our business.”
Our warehouseFootprint is now
over 120,000
sq ft!
Have you heard of Mauve? We’ve mentioned it a lot in this edition, and you’ll be hearing a lot more about it in 2016.
It’s our online, modular platform that allows you to centrally create, manage, store and distribute your point-of-sale materials and campaigns.If you are keen to reduce your campaign costs, use Mauve with our intelligent ‘store-profiling’ and ‘automated artwork’ modules and considerably reduce print costs and wastage. Our ‘store ordering’ module also works alongside our logistics division allowing your stores to order additional POS, staff uniforms and all of the other items.
We have a number of exciting announcements for 2016 but let’s wait until the next issue of our magazine to share the news. If you would like to save time, money and reduce stress, we would love to hear from you. Please contact [email protected]
Major distribution
expansionWe deliver a full end-to-end retail POS solution all under one roof – and we’re really proud of it! Our logistics team is a crucial part of this cycle and it’s increasingly more important to streamline this part of the business to make sure all our clients receive their point of sale correctly and on time.To keep up with demand we’ve now expanded our footprint to over 120,000 sq ft which has already delivered a 20% increase in productivity. This additional warehouse in conjunction with our online retail software, Mauve means that customers can now, more easily place and track orders along with accurate stock management and
Detailed reporting back to your head office.Due to these changes, our clients are now saving up to 30% on their storage and delivery costs.Our motto is, if you don’t need it, don’t store it, let’s recycle it. The result? Less stress, less time and less money.
Peter has joined to lead Mauve into the next phase. He has 23 years experience building software solutions and has spent the last 15 years building large, multi-tenant cloud solutions. Using his wealth of expertise simplifying complex processes, user interface design and user experience, we look forward to seeing his vision mould into a new look and feel for Mauve. “I’m very excited about the future of Mauve and bringing my vision into reality.”
peter coe director of mauve
Martin will be looking to adopt and implement improved processes, ensuring our clients receive a 5 star service, every time.“I join SPS with over 20 years’ experience working within various print sectors, mainly being the POS and Retail, along with large format Graphics, sectors.Having worked for both St Ives and Bezier, I have been involved with some of the UK’s most well-known brands and retailers.I very much look forward working with the SPS team and you too.”
martin jeans head of client services
Andy Crowe managing director
With a wealth of expertise and knowledge in finance and company acquisitions, we look forward to him steering the company to achieve it’s business strategy and goals.Director Toby Martin adds
“Andy is an exceptional leader, his track record in transforming businesses’ is extraordinary”.
Reflecting on his appointment, Andy said
“I am determined to continue The SPS Groups’ momentum based on our differentiated offering, which is resonating so strongly in the market - our unique blend of culture, innovation, diversity and, perhaps most importantly, our adventurous and competitive spirit really puts us ahead of the competition. My mission is to lead The SPS Group onto even greater things.”
New members of the SPS team...
Specsavers
renew SPS contractWe’ve been working together for over 15 years, so we couldn’t be happier that Specsavers have renewed their contract with us.
One of the main reasons for Specsavers renewing is that our culture fit is very similar and in many ways we feel we have grown up together! They’re a really important client to us who are personally managed by James Martin, one of our directors.
Another major factor is that Specsavers use our full end-to-end solution where we create, manage, store and fulfil their point of sale materials all under one roof making the process more streamlined and manageable for their team.
We’re all looking forward to continuing this journey!
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Luke Norman, Implementation Manager, Specsavers
“SPS and Specsavers has formed a strong partnership which goes beyond the standard client and supplier model. SPS provide great service, creativity and their ability to deliver is a major reason for our continued partnership.”
“Over the past 10 years we have been using Mauve to help our clients get the right stuff to the right stores, on time, every time.”
Peter Coe, Director of Mauve
The SPS Group 1 Nimrod Way Wimborne BH21 7SH UK Tel: +44(0)1202 865 100
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This newsletter has been printed on our new iGen 5 Press!
@TheSPS_Group@clockworxdesign
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So, we get it, Christmas was ages ago and sunny spring is here but this is our first edition of the year and we couldn’t not mention our amazing Christmas penguins - they were even filled with chocolates! Although the chocolates are long gone, we’re still seeing the penguins all over our clients offices!
Watch this space for this year’s gift…
We really love these incredible cardboard characters, I mean, look at them! The clever-bods in 3DE were enjoying a rare, quiet afternoon so they designed and engineered these! Clockworx then created the graphics to turn them into our favourite superhero. Sometimes it’s just nice to have little fun and show off your skills. Sheer genius!
3DE RESCUE!
TO THE
Fizz Experience
“Ahhhh, we love our Festive Penguin from the engineering clever-bods from
@TheSPS_Group - he’s so cute! #Christmas”
inspired?If you would like to see how we can save you time and make your marketing budget go further, please email:
A FLIPPIN’ SUCCESS!
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Our designers work flat out everyday and their studio and equipment needed a little loving!
So we’ve refreshed everything and created a space where our clients can now work, talk and chill out with a coffee. If you’re ever in the area, feel free to pop in!
OUR DESIGNERS GET A REDESIGN
Tips on
how to save time, money & stress using mauveProfile your stores in order to:
• Reduce print costs
• Stop over / under delivery
• Save store time sifting through unwanted POS
• Reduce costly reorders
Adopt online approval tool to:
• Reduce time to approve artwork
• Collaborate & communicate comments more easily, reducing time and saving money on costly conflicting amendments
Centrally store your assets to:
• Eliminate the cost of lost or misplaced work
• Maintain brand consistency and brand integrity
• Accelerate creativity and production cycles
• Reduce time relocating misplaced assets