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The IPA's 'big tent' plans to create an umbrella trade body representing the entire UK communications industry were dealt a blow this week by the Direct Marketing Association.
Following meetings with the IPA, the DMA has rejected its proposals to share offices and merge its agency section to create a single trade body.
Instead it is in favour of simply working jointly with the IPA when the need arises.
James Kelly, the managing director of the DMA, said: 'The IPA did sound out various trade bodies and we did meet with them to discuss a range of issues. These were sharing a building, forming a new body to look after agencies and looking at ways to do things jointly.
'We didn't see the need to create a new body and will continue to look after agencies in our own way.'
Kelly said the DMA had recently moved into new premises and had no interest in sharing a building with the IPA. ...