Record year of growth for West Midlands comms agency

By Nicky Godding

21 February 2024

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An award-winning West Midlands communications agency has followed a record year of growth in 2023 with two major contracts to start the new year.

R&Co Communications, which has offices in Leamington Spa and Birmingham, has signed new agreements with existing clients, Wolverhampton-based logistics firm Pallet-Track and West Midlands accountancy firm Prime Accountants Group.

Pallet-Track, which delivers palletised freight across the UK via its 90-plus member network, has engaged R&Co to manage its media relations, paid social media, SEO and PPC output.

Meanwhile, Prime, which has offices in Solihull, Birmingham and Coventry, has signed an agreement for R&Co to provide media relations, organic social media and SEO content.

The two new contracts follow a record year where R&Co grew its fee income by more than 30 per cent and added national housebuilder Miller Homes to its client roster, alongside a new agreement with Mars Petcare-owned Linnaeus, one of the UK’s biggest veterinary groups.

Peter Robinson, managing director at R&Co, said: “It has been a deliberate and considered growth strategy to expand our offering by hiring experts in their field, who are delivering the levels of service our clients have become accustomed to over the last four decades.

“Both Pallet-Track and Prime Accountants Group are hugely-valued clients at R&Co and we’re delighted they have put their confidence in us once again. They both foster a collaborative approach to working together, which delivers excellent results.”

R&Co won Gold for the best healthcare campaign at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Midlands PRide awards last year, while also taking home a Silver award in the same event for best small PR consultancy.

By Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe.

After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts.

She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.