Creating a bespoke distribution service for Quids In! Magazine

As a division of InterGo Holdings Ltd, InterSend boasts significant experience in the distribution and fulfilment of magazines, owing in no small part to its sister company InterMedia, which works across a growing portfolio of both consumer and trade and professional magazines to provide retail newsstand distribution and subscription fulfilment services.

InterSend hosts over 4000 individual pick-face locations from which single issues are stored and despatched to subscribers, as well as a wide range of subscription gift products and associated merchandise.

Not only do we store and fulfil magazines for single-issue despatch through our extensive direct mail network, but we also provide a number of value-added services to UK Publishers, as well as international publishing companies.

Our services include:

• Product adjustment for promotional campaigns
• Barcode stickering
• Cover-mounting of gifts and added-value items
• Bagging of promoted items
• Storage of current and back issues
• Single issue despatch and replenishment
• Assembly of promotional packs

In recent years, InterSend has expanded its reach across the publishing and media industries and now works directly with many publishing companies each requiring a bespoke service to satisfy the needs of their individual requirements.

Quids In! Magazine was one such client who contacted us requesting a bespoke distribution service. Quids In! is part of Clean Slate Training & Employment, a not for profit organisation that also provides support and training to help people take control of their money, find work or better-paid work, and make the best use of the internet.

With a very specific distribution requirement, which necessitated the receipt of the issue directly from the printer through our goods in process, sortation of variable editions, packing into secure cartons and the labelling and despatch to an agreed database of housing associations, Citizens Advice Bureau’s and community learning centres, through our parcel distribution service, we completed the first distribution wave for this new client on time and to plan.

InterSend is now tasked to ensure the remaining stock is safely stored and accessible through our storage infrastructure and fulfilled through our replenishment process as customer orders are received throughout the lifetime of the issue.

You will find it hard to find a partner with more knowledge and experience in the magazine sector. Our sister company, InterMedia, is the UK’s only fully integrated provider of a multi-channel approach to circulation, marketing and distribution solutions. We serve the growing circulation marketing needs of publishers servicing over 80,000 subscriber calls and distributing over 3,000,000 magazines every year across 86 countries. We provide a comprehensive range of circulation marketing and distribution services to help grow your readership across every route to the consumer. We ensure magazines are marketed on the retail newsstand in the UK and around the world, both cost-effectively and with maximum impact. We offer end-to-end newsstand distribution solutions, from printing press to retail newsstand, managing the process every step of the way.