Total Solution

Whether it’s designing and printing your magazine, storing then fulfilling a customer request for your brochure pack, creating a visual impact for your brand, developing Point of Sale for your stores or distributing 100,000 newsletters to your target audience FastAnt can do the lot.

We can provide the process efficiency cost savings for purchasing departments, the dynamic management of materials for marketing departments and the assurance to the user network that if the product says it is in stock on the system, they will get it.

Our comprehensive suite of services includes:

Marketing Fulfilment (also known as Facilities Management)

• Warehousing: Provides a full stock warehousing and management facility for all identified stock products.
• Order Processing: A number of bespoke internet and office based ordering modules combine to provide a fully comprehensive portal for processing orders from stock.  Website integration and Response centre order processing are among the many services we provide to ensure maximum flexibility for your business.
• Technology: By utilising, where possible, all the relevant technology to improve efficiency and simplify procedures - e.g., by the use of electronic catalogues, on-line ordering and on-line proofing templates for your business stationery.
• Logistics: To provide a fully auditable distribution service for the product range we store – delivering to Head Office and all regional locations.
• Management Information Reports: To provide a fully comprehensive reporting mechanism delivering reports on various activities.

Direct Marketing

• Direct Mail: To provide business to customer direct marketing using the equipment, software and services from our Direct Mail division.
• High Speed Laser Printing: Our Develop Ineo 1200 laser printing lines use a polymer toner that produces excellent results.  The low temperature fusing attribute of polymer toner means we can print onto almost all paper types and plastics upto 350gsm.
• Contract Packing: To create marketing packs from multiple material sources including Point of Sale stand make-up.
• VDP: Variable Data Printing allows FastAnt to produce completely bespoke mailing documents to give you a better return on your investment.

Printing and Print Management 

• Digital Printing: Our in-house HP Indigo and Develop Ineo 6000 printing devices can produce colour accurate short run and variable data brochures and documents. Digital printing need not be a compromise on quality over quantity.  Our Indigo solutions team can print your short run brochure requirements upon our HP Indigo 5000 device which uses real ink to produce lithographic quality brochures at low volume digital quantities. 
• Purchasing: To manage the procurement of all identified print items.
• Cost Savings: To identify where possible hard product cost savings and soft savings generated by improvements in efficiency.
• Quality: To ensure that quality is not compromised as a result of our search for cost savings.
• Coordination: As FastAnt is a fully owned subsidiary of Taylor Bloxham Limited, we can coordinate the sourcing and production of high quality lithographic brochures printed by Taylor Bloxham giving you a single point of contact for all your printing requirements.
• Flexible Finishing: To fully support our in-house printing capability we have a complete internal finishing department consisting of guillotines, folding, stitching and collating machines.
• Fast Turnaround: Our Digtial Solutions team work to short deadlines and can turn a printed job around in minutes from a supplied print ready PDF.

Design & Photography

• In-house Design: Atelier is FastAnt’s own in-house design team who can provide conceptual graphic design for your re-branding purposes to illustrative design to compliment your existing brand design.  
• End-Point Knowledge: The Atelier team work closely with our print and direct mail experts to ensure your designs are not only vibrant and exciting, but are also cost effective to produce and distribute – a key design feature often ignored by other design companies.

Point of Sale

• Semi-Permanent Point of Sale: Point of Sale is an ideal way to promote your products with maximum impact for a targeted time frame.  FastAnt Instore  specialise in the design, engineering, production and distribution of Semi-Permanent Point of Sale helping your product stand out from the crowd with a relevant and functional design.  
• Permanent Point of Sale: Is designed to co-exist with your store design and furnishings and enhances the customer selection process allowing you to direct them to the products you specifically want to promote.  Permanent POS can be constructed from materials including metal, wood, glass, plastic along with reclaimed materials.
• We work in an open and inclusive manner with the client and look at each project from every perspective, enabling us to offer the flexibility and choice to deliver the right solution at the right price, within the tightest of deadlines. At all times clients enjoy direct contact with the creative and production departments, whilst comprehensive in-house facilities at our new purpose built site ensure we can respond dynamically to evolving needs and deliver a solution, which exceeds all expectations.
• Our experienced team can manage your Point of Sale project from inception to delivery in store, taking the pressure away from your marketing team.  We can produce ad hoc material to support your shop fitting team along with detailed instructions.  We have the ability to produce large wall graphics, vinyl lettering and our skilled production engineering team can design and produce both 2D and 3D displays.