We are pleased to officially announce the official listings of the Top 50 PR companies in the North for 2015.
This is the third year that Mustard has delivered this initiative – in association with Prolific North – and we are delighted by the positive response it has received from within and outside the industry.
Some headlines from this year’s list:
- Citypress climb to the top of the pile for the first time having posted double-digit turnover and headcount growth.
- Mainfest Communications and Finn Communications are also climbers in the top 10 – up to 4th and 6th respectively
- The biggest rise in the rankings is a climb of 35 places for Liverpool’s Influential PR – from 47th to 12th
- 2014 also seems to have been a good year for the likes of The Write Angle (up to 17th), Smoking Gun PR (up to 19th), Lucre (up to 21st), Acceleris (up to 25th) and MCG PR (up to 28th).
- There are also several new entries in the Top 50. Carousel PR (who narrowly missed the top 50 last year, now sit 24th). Other new entries include Democracy (31st), PR Agency One (35th), JAMpr (41st), Plinkfizz (42nd), Prohibition PR (45th), Manc Frank (46th), Brand8 PR (48th), Faith PR (49th) and Down at the Social (50th).
The rankings in full:
| 1 | Citypress | https://www.citypress.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 2 | Tangerine PR | https://www.tangerinepr.com/ | Manchester |
| 3 | Weber Shandwick | https://webershandwick.co.uk | Manchester |
| 4 | Manifest Comms | https://manifestcomms.co.uk/ | Leeds and Manchester |
| 5 | Good Relations Regional | https://goodrelations.co.uk/ | Macclesfield |
| 6 | Finn Communications | https://www.finncomms.com/ | Leeds |
| 7 | Barrett Dixon Bell | https://www.bdb.co.uk/ | Altrincham |
| 8 | Brazen PR | https://www.brazenpr.com/ | Manchester |
| 9 | Beattie Communications Group | https://www.beattiegroup.com/ | Leeds |
| 10 | Corporate Culture Ltd | https://www.corporateculture.co.uk/ | Liverpool |
| 11 | Havas PR UK | https://www.havaspr.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 12 | Influential PR (formerly Paver Smith) | www. thisisinfluential.com | Liverpool |
| 13 | Kenyon Fraser | https://www.kenyons.co.uk/ | Liverpool |
| 14 | SKV PR | https://www.skvcommunications.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 15 | Peppermint Soda | https://www.peppermintsoda.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 16 | Scott Partnership | https://www.scottpr.com/ | Holmes Chapel |
| 17 | The Write Angle | https://www.peppermintsoda.co.uk/ | Chorley |
| 18 | Freshfield Public Relations | https://www.freshfield.com/ | Preston |
| 19 | Smoking Gun | https://smokinggunpr.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 20 | Pelican Public Relations | https://www.pelicancommunications.co.uk/ | Oldham |
| 21 | Lucre | https://www.lucre.co.uk/ | Leeds |
| 22 | RMS PR, Design & Marketing | https://www.carouselpr.com/ | Altrincham |
| 23 | Mason Williams Ltd | https://www.mason-williams.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 24 | Judge & Howard | https://www.judgeandhoward.com | Manchester |
| 24 | Carousel PR | https://www.carouselpr.com | Manchester |
| 25 | Acceleris | https://www.acceleris-mc.com/ | Harrogate |
| 26 | Hatch Communications | https://www.hatchcommunications.co.uk/ | Leeds |
| 27 | Context Public Relations | https://www.contextpr.co.uk/ | Macclesfield |
| 28 | MCG PR | https://www.mcgpr.co.uk/ | Leeds |
| 29 | iseepr | https://www.iseepr.co.uk/ | Otley |
| 30 | The Partners Group | https://www.partners-group.co.uk | York |
| 31 | Democracy | https://wearedemocracy.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 32 | de Winter PR & Marketing Ltd | https://www.thinkdewinter.co.uk/ | Chester |
| 33 | Roland Dransfield PR | https://www.rdpr.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 34 | HR Media Ltd | https://www.hrmedia.org.uk/ | Sheffield |
| 35 | PR Agency One | https://www.pragencyone.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 36 | DTW | https://www.dtw.co.uk/ | Guisborough |
| 37 | Label PR | https://www.labelpr.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 38 | Active Profile | https://www.activeprofile.co.uk/ | Manchester and Liverpool |
| 39 | IPB Communications | https://www.ipbcommunications.co.uk/ | Sale |
| 40 | Dragonfly Public Relations Ltd | https://www.dragonflypr.co.uk/ | Rotherham |
| 41 | JAMpr Ltd | https://www.jampr.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 42 | Plinkfizz | https://www.plinkfizz.com/about/ | Newcastle-under-Lyme |
| 43 | Umpf | https://www.umpf.co.uk/ | Leeds |
| 44 | Hattrick PR | https://www.hattrickpr.co.uk/ | Manchester |
| 45 | Prohibition PR | https://prohibitionpr.co.uk/ | Leeds |
| 46 | MANC FRANK | https://www.mancfrank.com/ | Manchester |
| 47 | MTJ Associates Ltd | https://mtjpr.co.uk/ | Leyland |
| 48 | Brand8 PR | https://www.brand8pr.com/ | Leeds |
| 49 | Faith PR (Reg as – Kloog Business Dev Ltd?) | https://faith-pr.co.uk/ | Brighouse |
| 50 | Down at the Social | https://www.downatthesocial.co.uk/ | Manchester |
