Trade Services for Printers & Print Management Companies

We provide end-to-end marketing and fulfilment services for trade businesses. For marketing, we specialise in printed materials, often delivering targeted direct mail and leaflet distribution campaigns. With all the trade services we offer, please simply ask if you require individual elements.

With so many marketing and fulfilment services available in-house, we offer multiple services which are ideal up-selling opportunities for print businesses. Below are some options to utilise which can provide additional revenue streams and reduce your fixed overheads. And of course, you can use these services for your business too, not just on behalf of your clients!

Graphic Design

In graphic design, this can range from making things print-ready for your clients to providing an entire brand and everything in between. Printers and print management companies often use our design service when their in-house team is overloaded with work or when it's specialist artwork, such as for a flyer distribution or direct mail campaign. 

Direct Mail

Direct mail is by far the most popular service we provide for the print industry. We are considered one of the UK's leading direct mail companies, and in 2021, we won Direct Mail Marketing Company of the Year. So whether you need folding, personalisation, enclosure, shrink-wrapping, large-object packaging, or any other variation, we will provide the service you need. Also, as an ISO 14001 company, we receive significant postage discounts that we can pass on to you.

Leaflet Distribution

In 2020, our group (The Flow Group) acquired the UK's multi-award-winning flyer distribution company, Mr Flyer. Since then, our team has continued to provide some of the UK's largest businesses with business-building door-to-door campaigns. So every time your clients request flyers, be sure to ask them how they intend to distribute them - and we can provide this for you. When your clients have a trustworthy solution for their leaflet drops, they will do it more frequently, resulting in much more print for you.

White-labelled Trade Printing Services

If you would like to outsource the products you don't produce in-house, we can work on a white-label basis to provide additional print products your clients need. In fact, we can take this one step further by providing you and your clients with Flow print portals. 

Flow Print Portal

In 2021, our group acquired the SAAS platform print management company, The Flow Print Portal. With this, you can have your own print portal that hosts all your clients' print products, categorised by client, so you can order whatever they need, whenever they need it, with a couple of clicks. Furthermore, with our 'Partner' option, you can provide these to your clients and sell both your products and our trade-priced products. 

Contract Packing

In what we call 'packing season', one of our warehouses is full of 50+ staff building FSDUs, heat-bending formed plastic POS, perfect for supermarkets and retail stores, and creating many other weird and wonderful creations! We have several trade printers who send us raw products, ready for our team to hand-assemble and deliver to the client. At Flow, the process is simpler, faster and cheaper than using a traditional contract packing company. 

Next Step

As you can see, we provide several services that greatly benefit printers and print managers. We would love to help you grow your business by benefiting from our relevant services on a trade-based basis. Please contact us today and ask to speak with one of our Sales Consultants.