Sponsors
It is still possible to support this year’s Awards by sponsoring. For information on the various sponsorship packages and how to apply please contact Daniela Badcock, Sales Manager of Data Strategy on 020 7970 6254.
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The REaD Group plc was founded in 1991 by Mark Roy, who pioneered a new, more efficient approach to direct marketing. Over the past seventeen years, The REaD Group plc has revolutionised how organisations approach B2C and B2B direct marketing and enhanced the reputation of the DM community to consumers. The Group is currently comprised of suppression provider, REaD UK; data processing bureau, meta-morphix; transactional and lifestyle data specialist, Scientia Data; list and insert manager TRG Strata; and Funnel Lead Marketing. For further information, visit www.readgroupplc.com.
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The global leader in interactive marketing services, Acxiom connects clients with their customers through deep consumer insight, powering effective and profitable marketing initiatives and business decisions. Our consultative approach spans multiple industries and incorporates decades of experience in consumer data and analytics, information technology, data integration and consulting solutions for effective marketing across digital, Internet, email, mobile and direct mail channels. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Ark., and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific. For more information about Acxiom, visit www.acxiom.co.uk
Callcredit Marketing Solutions is fast becoming the UK's leading marketing services provider of choice. Unlike traditional providers, we design and execute marketing programmes with measurable customer value as the starting point.
With marketing services from consumer data and contact centres to direct marketing and credit marketing, Callcredit Marketing Solutions will help you gain greater knowledge of your customers and prospects, as well as the best ways to engage with them.
By transforming raw consumer data into actionable customer insight, we'll help you maximise your marketing budget while encouraging customers to buy more, do more and stay longer - measurably improving your return on customer.
Celerity is the data management specialist within the Howard Hunt Group. The Group is a privately owned company with £50m turnover and services that span print production, direct mail and data management. Continued investment enables Celerity to evaluate, develop and invest in the latest proven technology to deliver continually innovative and state of the art data management solutions to its clients.
Vision statement - Celerity will become a leading UK data management company via investment in world class people, systems and processes. It will exceed the expectations of all of its clients in every way and become the natural first choice in its market for all its solutions.
Mission statement - To deliver quality in everything we do - this will provide a secure basis on which to build sustainable long term business relationships with all of its clients that can be developed and extended over time.
The Consumersketch database is a unique source of over 9 million affluent individuals who have completed customer satisfaction questionnaires. We offer superbly accurate information with up to 200,000 records added monthly.
With various types of questionnaires surveyed, we are able to cover the whole spectrum of tastes and budgets, with an excellent selectabiltiy of over 200 variables, including: age, income, occupation, credit card users, motor/home/travel insurance, newspaper readership, hobbies/interest, charities, mail order buyers, PC/internet, telephone nos., email addresses, SMS.
Proven success for numerous sectors including finance, publishing, charities, mail order and the media.
Datatech are recognised as an industry brand chosen by clients and candidates for our professionalism and commitment to delivery. Offering a variety of bespoke recruitment solutions for analytical professionals. This is why many consider Datatech to be the leading supplier of professionals in the data analytical marketplace.
Formed in 1996 DQM Group has grown to become the most trusted independent provider of data governance services to the UK marketing industry. We monitor over 55% of UK list transactions and 70% of leading data owners use DQM Group to audit their commercial agreements with resellers and end users. In addition we provide a cohesive range of data governance products and services to leading organisations.
Fraud is becoming a critical issue for UK businesses as more and more individuals deliberately purchase goods or services without any intention to pay. Fraudscreen is a unique solution that predicts payment behaviour, identifying consumers with “intent not to pay”. Created from a totally new and unique dataset, Fraudscreen is compiled from individual payment transaction data and can be used at each stage of the customer journey. By providing clear discrimination about consumers’ payment intentions Fraudscreen is having a significant and positive financial impact on our clients’ recruitment, applications risk management, and debt collection strategies.
Find out how your business could benefit by visiting www.fraudscreen.co.uk or call John Sharman on 0207 307 6198.
The most successful organisations recognise the value of understanding your individual identity - who you are, what you need and what you like. GB combines this concept of identity with technology to create an environment of trust so that organisations can connect, communicate and transact with consumers safely, responsibly and profitably. We call this identity management. GB offers:
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Identity Verification - combating ID fraud, money laundering and under-age gambling
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Identity Capture and Maintenance - providing accurate and up-to-date customer information for your contact strategy
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Identity Analysis - understanding, targeting and retaining profitable customers
GB Group - because identity matters™
greenstone data solutions, the database bureau with “the subtle difference” was formed in 2003 to provide advanced data management solutions. Whatever service is required greenstone will use the best and the right technology available, to achieve each client’s requirements, promote a competitive and fair cost structure, give clients access to an empowered, experienced and professional team, offer a blue-chip service to every organisation and strive to exceed client expectations; rather than just to meet them. greenstone’s rapid expansion and position as one of the fastest-growing data & database solutions businesses in the UK can be attributed to its approach and the quality of its people.
Initiate Systems enables organisations to confidently share critical data assets. Multinational corporations, healthcare organizations and government agencies rely on Initiate® software and services to deliver complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple systems, domains or databases. Initiate’s multi-domain master data management (MDM) solutions facilitate interoperability, information sharing, entity resolution and data quality to increase revenues, reduce costs and mitigate risks. Initiate operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., and in Toronto, London and Sydney. For more information, visit www.Initiate.com.
Lateral Group combines data-led strategic insight with the management of offline and online outputs co-ordinated through our Integrated Communications Management (ICM) model to help you define, deploy and measure your marketing messaging using the most appropriate communication channels.We reduce the cost of your communications, reduce the cost of your internal processes and increase your return on investment. thinking.people
www.lateralgroup.co.uk
Marketing Metrix is a data development company, specialising in ground breaking data products and services.
Its team of data consultants and analysts are responsible for products such as PollenUK a massive datapool which has redefined how data is selected. PollenHealth was developed from this, a unique way of marketing ‘sensitive’ health issues. Recently they have tackled the ailing pub sector with ‘Last Orders’, which identifies pubs most at risk from closure.
Most exciting of all is Channel Metrix - this state of the art product comes to the aid of companies suffering ‘media channel overload’: through a rigorous analytics system, it will advise on the right balance across the channel spectrum, from TV and Direct mail, to SMS and twitter, helping companies understand and optimise their multi channel marketing spend.
Established since 1996, Tangible Data have developed core skills in data integration, blending skills and expertise from an unrivalled breadth of marketing and data disciplines. Our mix of products and services have enabled us to push the boundaries of what is possible to achieve with marketing data. Investing heavily in development, Tangible Data have delivered high impact data solutions for a prestigious and multi sector client base, providing the insight to inform strategic planning and achieve financial benefits.
2008’s Data Provider of the Year The Trading Floor has continued to innovate in the market place with the launch of enhance™, the new data appending service containing a unique blend of key transactional and lifestyle insight on over 20m unique individuals. Utilising the data across customer and prospect data sets enables clients to carry out more precisely targeted communications with valuable cross-selling opportunities - increasing conversion rates, reducing the cost of customer acquisition and enriching the lifetime values of your customers. http://enhance.thetradingfloor.co.uk/index.php