Citypress toasts rise in PR rankings
CITYPRESS, the Manchester-based PR, digital and creative agency has risen up the national rankings in the PR Week Top 150 league table.
The firm, based on Deansgate and with offices in Birmingham, London, Bristol and Edinburgh, represents major corporate clients including Lloyds Bank, its private equity arm LDC, Bibbyline Group, Princes Foods and a clutch of regional businesses including Oliver Valves and Lancashire wallcoverings group Graham & Brown,
The PR Week shows the agency’s turnover rose to just over £3m between 2011 and 2012, pushing it up six places from 76th to 70th in the national rankings. In the league table for agencies outside London Citypress was placed seventh.
Based on audited fee income, the league table makes Citypress the largest firm in the North of England featured, recording growth of 9% last year.
Citypress, originally founded by journalists in Manchester in 1961, employs 50 people and earlier this year it moved its Manchester head office to new 7,000 sq ft premises at 196 Deansgate, and its Birmingham office to a new location in the city’s Colmore Row Business District.
Martin Currie, managing director, said: “Our teams across the UK have worked hard to deliver outstanding work for our clients – this continues to underpin the agency’s growth.
“We’ve also expanded our presence in new regions to provide true UK-wide support for our clients, invested in some of the best talent in the market and strengthened our capabilities in new services to create a fully integrated offer. This approach is helping us achieve strong growth against some tough market conditions.”
Chief executive Charles Tattersall, whose father was one of the founders of the agency, added: “We’ve grown the business for 15 consecutive years by concentrating on the things that matter most – clients and people. Our plans are to continue investing in the business to become the UK’s biggest and best integrated independent network headquartered outside of London.”
The PR Week rankings shows a strong performance by another Manchester agency, Tangerine PR, which surged more than 20 places from 99th to 73rd in the top 150. The Castelfield agency led by Sandy Lindsay was placed 9th in the 2012 Top 40 based outside London.
