Communisis wins five-year contract by BT

MARKETING services provider Communisis has been awarded a five-year contract by BT.

The Leeds-based firm said the contract is for the production of all BT’s billing and associated customer communications, starting in December.

The firm said that this work will be produced at its plant in Liverpool, using high-speed colour digital technology. This is in addition to the BT shareholder communications that Communisis has produced for many years.

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Andy Blundell, chief executive, said: “We are delighted to be entering a strategically important new relationship with BT. This provides further evidence of the attraction of the group’s market-leading propositions in the application of high-speed colour digital technology for transactional communications.”

Communisis was heavily involved in mobile phone operator EE’s new 4G high-speed network launch, the first of its kind in the UK.

The firm recently revealed more job cuts in Leeds, but said it is on track to deliver a third year of growth. Communisis said its success in winning new work is more than compensating for falling demand for “more mature products”.

The company revealed it is closing a cheque personalisation plant in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, with the loss of 46 jobs. Communisis is also cutting back further at its Leeds direct mail plant, where it is consulting over 16 job cuts from a total 375-strong workforce.

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Communisis also restructured in Leeds in 2009 as recession, meltdown in the financial sector and a sharp fall in bank marketing hammered profits and sales and forced it to cut jobs.

However, it has since installed high-speed colour digital print lines in its Leeds and Liverpool plants.