Introducing APS Group

Welcome to the APS Group. We’re delighted to be joining the Print & Digital Communications Framework (Lot 1), working with Members of Procurement for Housing, helping you deliver cost effective, value driven marketing communications to your customers.

Why APS?

Value, Innovation and Impact are at the heart of our proposition, and these are based around our dedication to offering the highest levels of client services built around an ongoing programme of innovation that delivers true value for you.

Your key account lead is Elaine Bissell who is responsible for all key elements of your contracted services and for the strategic running of the framework. Elaine is supported by Paula Jenkinson (Client Development) and an Account Management team experienced in the key service areas of print, digital and mailings, amongst others.

Our core mantra of Make More Possible has shaped our business and is how we stand out in the marketplace. This is powered by:

• Great people – A business is defined by its people. By recruiting, developing and retaining the very best people. We differentiate ourself in the market with unrivalled levels of service.
• Operational excellence – Our category experts support a lean six sigma standard of process management. This ensures the most complex of projects are delivered time and time again.
• Enabling technology – Our cloud-based technology optimises and manages the creative, production and publishing process all of which is underpinned by in-depth analytics and reporting.

A proven customer communications provider for housing associations

We make effective customer communications easy to deliver. We create impactful marketing solutions across print and digital communications.

Using a combination of strategy, insight, design, multichannel production and delivery, we devise, manage and execute marketing and communications for high profile brands across the private and public sector including a range of housing associations.

APS Group will help you deliver

Customer communications – Providing an end-to-end solution for the delivery of customer communications across printed and digital channels. Encompassing; Print Management delivered both in-house in the UK and through our global supply chain, digital communications and extensive Delivery and Fulfilment capabilities.

Creative and content – From strategy and insight through to award winning creative and content production, our clients benefit from creative, studio, digital, video and artworking services.

Our Hybrid Print Management Model

We operate a Hybrid Print Management model – meaning we have invested in both our in-house production in the UK as well as relationships with our supplier partners to provide scale and resilience.

By offering an end-to-end solution our clients can easily communicate with their customers in their preferred format, whether that is print or digital.

We have four production facilities within the UK offering a wide range of litho and digital print as well as marketing technology to enable fully managed multi-channel delivery including a Hybrid Mail solution. And with over 1,000 active supplier partners in the UK we can deliver any and all print requirements.

Our model benefits clients as we are agnostic as print manager, treating our facilities as a supplier and obtaining the best prices from the marketplace. This ensures we are always competitive and aligned with best practice in the print sector