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The activities of QMP are overseen by an advisory council comprising of representatives from Royal Mail, the Direct Marketing Association and ISBA, together with an elected representative from the Mailing Houses.
It is administered by The QMP Register Ltd who independently ensures that the standards of the accreditation scheme are strictly maintained.
If you are a DM buyer, you should reassure yourself that your campaigns are being dealt with by companies who apply industry standards as a basic service level.
If you are in a DM agency, you should be aware of the standard and use it to reassure your own clients that you are applying the highest standards to your contracted suppliers.
The Direct Marketing Association UK is Europe's largest trade association in the marketing and communications sector.
The DMA was formed in 1992, following the merger of various like-minded trade bodies, forming a single voice to protect the direct marketing industry from legislative threats and promote its development.
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) is the organisation for magazine and business-to-business media publishers in the UK.
PPA's role is to promote and protect the interests of the industry in general, and member companies in particular.
The association's membership consists of almost 400 publishing companies, who together publish more than 2,260 consumer, business and professional magazines.
The Federation of Small Businesses is the UK's largest organisation lobbying on behalf of and working for small businesses.
The MCA acts as a forum for information share and joint initiatives to enable it's membership to work together to secure and develop the future of the international mail consolidation industry for the mutual benefit of members and their customers.
The aims and objectives for which the MCA is established are as follows to:
Promote best practice by, and maintain standards of, its members
Develop the industry for the benefit of its members and their customers
Promote equality in the industry between private and public postal & parcel suppliers
Inform and educate the market of the benefits of consolidated distribution services
Protect, promote and further the interests of its members
In meeting these aims and objectives the MCA seeks to encourage growth and profitability of the industry.