The National Association for Printing Leadership and the Association of Marketing Service Providers took a big step towards consolidating their organizations when their respective boards resolved to explore a merger on June 25.
“With increasing numbers of our NAPL and NAQP members adding or increasing their mailing, fulfillment, and marketing services, this merger would give NAPL an opportunity to provide them with a great number of valuable additional resources that will help them grow their businesses,” says Nigel Worme, NAPL chairman, in a press release.
The two groups are still many months away from an actual merger, said Dean D’Ambrosi, NAPL vice president of member relations, in an interview. “I don’t think it will be before the end of the year,” D’Ambrosi said.
The two groups have some overlap in membership, D’Ambrosi said, and he feels the combination of the two organizations would be considered a true merger, not a case of one organization absorbing the other.
D’Ambrosi added that no new name has been chosen.
In a letter to NAPL members, NAPL president Joseph Truncale wrote:
As you might imagine, there are a number of issues that will be reviewed during the due diligence process and we will provide you with additional information at each stage. I encourage you to offer your comments and input throughout the process so that we can ensure that any partnership meets our members' needs. At the conclusion of this work, if a consolidation is recommended by both Boards, it will be put to a vote by members of both organizations.
Read the joint resolution here.