This year’s Mail Show will be held on 31 October and 1 November at the Novotel London West Hotel & Convention Centre in Hammersmith.

Under the theme of “New Competitive Realities”, The Mail Show 2006 will put the spotlight on a UK mail market that it is now fully open to competition. There will be sessions on what is happening to stimulate market growth, on home shopping and on the international scene. Speakers will address the needs of direct mailers, publishers and transactional mailers, and the products and services now on offer to them in the new environment.

There will also be lots of practical guidance to help mailers to make informed choices between Royal Mail and its competitors. In the main conference, keynote speakers from the highest echelons of the UK mailing industry, including customers, watchdogs and regulators, will be explaining what they really think about the current mail services on offer, and the need for objective ranking and measurement.

In an exciting new development for this year’s Mail Show, there will also be workshop sessions where customers can get ‘hands on’ insights into the practical implications for them of such developments as downstream access and consolidation. These workshops will also allow customers and other delegates to quiz the operators on what really makes them believe they have something different to offer.

The UK Mail Awards will be presented at the industry’s annual Gala Dinner at the same venue on the eve of the event. Alongside the conference throughout the two days, the display area will feature all the leading organisations, suppliers and operators you would expect to find at such an event, ready to share their latest innovations developed for this new environment.

Now in its 7th consecutive year as the UK’s premier mail industry event, The Mail Show will include a high-quality cast of top-level speakers from various viewpoints putting forward their expert opinions. Also on the agenda will be panel discussions, where representatives of specific sectors such as customer bodies and industry CEO’s will be in the hotseat, and a feedback session from The Mail Show’s Customer Forum (held the day before Conference begins), highlighting the current issues and concerns of a broad spectrum of the mail industry’s most important members: its customers.

Speaking, sponsorship opportunities and free delegate places now available
Organisers Triangle Management Services are currently planning the conference programme. Anyone interested in speaking at The Mail Show 2006 should contact Conference Editor John Modd at Triangle at john.modd@triangle.eu.com.

A limited number of sponsorship packages and exhibition space is now available for The Mail Show. For more specific information on the remaining opportunities, please contact Triangle's Media Sales Director, Nigel Ashton, at nigel.ashton@triangle.eu.com.

Customers of the mailing industry, large or small, who have views which they think are important for the operators and others in this business to hear should email paul.trott@triangle.eu.com to reserve a place on the Customer Forum – this will also entitle them to a free seat at the Awards dinner and complimentary delegate place for the whole two-day conference.

All of the above can be contacted at Triangle by telephone on 0870 950 7900, while updates on the Conference programme and other information will be available at www.triangle.eu.com/themailshow.

Notes for Editors:

• The Mail Show is an annual event held every autumn in London, organised by Triangle Management Services Ltd;

• Triangle also runs the UK Express Delivery Conference in Birmingham in July and a series of World Mail & Express events around the globe, as well as the annual World Mail Awards and the UK Mail Awards;

• Further press enquiries should be made to Triangle's Marketing Department on 0870 950 7900 or to paul.trott@triangle.eu.com.

Triangle Management Services Ltd, founded in 1984, is today the pre-eminent independent specialist management services company within the global mail, express and logistics sectors. Triangle offers the following services to clients: Recruitment, Market Research, Consultancy, Conferences and Mergers and Acquisitions - all of which focus primarily on the mail and express industry sectors.