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Fretwell Print & Direct Mail
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Retail & eCommerce Print and Direct Mail

Retail print from our Yorkshire production site: catalogues, promotional leaflets, packaging and personalised direct mail for shops and e-commerce brands.

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In a crowded digital landscape, a beautifully printed catalogue or a highly personalised direct mail piece cuts through the noise. Research consistently shows physical mail commands longer dwell time and higher response rates than email - and when it is timed correctly and personalised to the recipient's behaviour, the results are compelling.

We help retailers bridge the gap between physical and digital - printing personalised voucher codes, unique QR codes and trackable URLs that tie your mailing directly to your online analytics. Whether you're a high-street brand, a pure-play eCommerce retailer or a subscription box company, we scale to your volumes.

  • High-volume litho catalogue and brochure printing
  • Personalised loyalty programme and points mailings
  • Programmatic direct mail triggers - abandoned cart, win-back, birthday
  • Unique barcode and QR code integration per recipient
  • Bespoke eCommerce packaging and inserts
  • Suppression and gone-away data cleansing to reduce waste
Retail promotional leaflets and catalogues printed by Fretwell
High-quality retail brochure printing
Bespoke eCommerce packaging and inserts

Programmatic Direct Mail for eCommerce

Programmatic direct mail uses your customer behaviour data to trigger personalised mail pieces at the moments that matter most. An abandoned cart trigger fires a printed, personalised piece to a customer who browsed and left without buying - typically arriving on their doormat within 48 hours of the abandonment event. Win-back triggers re-engage lapsed customers at a behaviorally optimised interval. Birthday mailers arrive in the week of a customer's birthday with a personalised offer.

These trigger workflows require an integration between your eCommerce platform and our production system. We work with retail brands and their technical teams to establish the data feed - typically a SFTP file drop or API connection - that triggers production runs. Once set up, the workflow runs automatically: a data file arrives, we process it, print it, enclose it and hand it to Royal Mail, all within your agreed SLA window.

Suppression is built into the workflow: customers who have previously opted out of mail, or who have received a trigger mailing within your suppression window, are automatically excluded - reducing wasted spend and protecting your sender reputation.

Catalogue & Brochure Printing for Retail

The printed catalogue remains one of the most effective tools for driving both online and in-store retail sales. Studies show customers who receive a catalogue spend more online than those who do not, because the catalogue builds brand familiarity and frames the product range before the purchase decision is made.

Our B2 litho presses handle catalogue and brochure runs from 5,000 to several million copies, with consistent colour across the entire run. We produce the full pipeline in-house - from pre-press and proofing through printing, folding, stitching and addressed mailing - so the catalogue that goes to your customer's door is indistinguishable from the PDF you approved.

QR codes and personalised URLs printed on catalogues close the loop between physical and digital - a customer scans the code next to a product and lands directly on that product page, carrying a unique tracking parameter that attributes the sale back to the catalogue mailing. We handle all variable QR code generation and integration with your analytics platform.

What We Produce

Retail Print, Start to Finish

Product Catalogues

High-quality litho-printed catalogues that drive both online and in-store sales.

Promotional Mailers

Seasonal offers and sale announcements delivered to targeted postcodes.

Loyalty Packs

Personalised membership packs, points statements and reward mailings.

Abandoned Cart Mailers

Programmatic trigger mailings that re-engage online shoppers at the moment of highest intent.

Inserts & Stuffers

Product inserts and cross-sell materials enclosed with eCommerce orders.

Vouchers & Coupons

Unique barcoded discount vouchers with QR codes and full redemption tracking.

1 to 1m+
Print runs from personalised single pieces to multi-million volume
Fast turnaround
On digital direct mail production and despatch
D+2
Royal Mail Advertising Mail delivery commitment

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