Our services are focused on five disciplines: Advertising, Design, Marketing, Public Relations and Research, providing clients with a full range of marketing communications tools to create, enhance and build the value of their brands.
Advertising
The Advertising Division is led by Philip Gregory. We have two main agencies, each serving a broad range of blue chip clients: The Gate and IAS.
The Gate is a leading international specialist advertising and communications network, with operations in London, Edinburgh, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Johannesburg and Durban. Globally, The Gate has a broad base of clients. In the UK, it has particular strength in financial services, through its long-term relationships with clients such as HSBC, NewStar and Investec.
IAS B2B Marketing is an agency that has lived and breathed B2B for over 30 years. IAS gives clients the strategy for building relationships within a media-shifting, information-empowered market. And has the tactical capabilities across every channel to implement that strategy. IAS has the Know and the How to make your brand and business thrive.
Design
The Design Division is led by David Worthington. It brings together some of the UK’s best known design agency brands such as Holmes & Marchant, Lloyd Northover. It also includes two strong regional UK design agencies, FourNinety and Symmetry, which are specialist visual identity and photography agencies in Leeds and Manchester and Su Yeang, a Singaporean-based branding and design consultancy, delivering high-end strategic branding, corporate identity and packaging solutions.
Arken designs permanent retail point of sale materials. It recently won the contract to work with CBS to supply outdoor advertising fixtures across the entire London Underground network.
FourNinety offers design, marketing,advertising and specialist photography services with a focus on supporting clients in the home shopping industry.
Holmes & Marchant is one of the UK’s leading packaging design agencies and works with FMCG brands to create superior value through packaging. Major clients include Guinness, Bacardi and Unilever.
Lloyd Northover specialises in corporate branding projects. It enjoys an excellent reputation in the industry and is renowned for its specialisms in Automotive and the public sector. Clients include Lexus and National Savings & Investments.
Symmetry is a creative design and marketing agency with a focus on large volume, high-end photography. It has a particular focus on retailing.
Marketing
The Marketing Division, which is led by Bruce Winfield , offers a full range of marketing services, through three specialist agencies: CMW, Twentysix and Wax.
CMW is one of the best known direct marketing businesses in the UK and offers a full range of integrated direct marketing services. CMW combines its strength in both digital and offline communications, with specialist insight into the needs of financial services, FMCG and automotive clients. Major clients include Cadburys and Peugeot.
Twentysix is one of the leading strategic digital marketing agencies in the UK. It provides clients with a full range of digital marketing services, from “design and build” to integrated digital marketing communications. It has offices in London and Leeds, and serves leading brands such as Orange, Travelodge and Waitrose.
Wax Communications is a promotional and experiential marketing agency working closely with the leading FMCG brand owners including Müller, United Biscuits and Johnson & Johnson, and retailers including Waterstone’s. It is the result of the merger of three Media Square companies who had a strong heritage in sales promotion and experiential marketing – Dynamo, Catalyst and Theatre.
PR
The PR Division is also led by Philip Gregory.
Smarts is a well established PR network in the UK with a broad base of blue chip clients including Coca-cola, Diageo, and the AA.
Atkinson Hardwick PR is the latest addition to the Smarts network. Based in London, clients include Sealine Luxury Motor Cruisers and JCB Excavators Ltd.”
Research
The Research Division is led by Peter Reid
Illuminas is a top 10 international market research agency, focused on high end research consultancy. Illuminas’ research capabilities provide an important building block to all of the Group’s communications work, especially the advertising division, where its strength in financial services complements that of The Gate. Clients include LloydsTSB, Norwich Union and Vodafone.