Comms professional joins Wiltshire hospitality specialist Eat PR & Marketing

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Peter Davison

Jonathan Patterson

Chippenham-based Eat PR & Marketing, a specialist hospitality, retail and foodservice agency, has appointed experienced communications professional Jonathan Patterson to its team.

Bringing with him more than two decades of dedicated industry experience, Jonathan previously worked at two prominent industry agencies – as a PR director at Mercieca and as client services director at The Hub – where he managed high-profile accounts including P&G, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Nisbets, Kerry and Mondelez.

Launched in 2021, Eat PR & Marketing has quickly grown to become one of the most prominent specialist foodservice and hospitality agencies.

Located at the Glove Factory Studios in Holt, near Bath, the company represents clients including voco St. David’s Hotel, Cardiff, part of the IHG Group, Middleton Foods, and The Burnt Chef Project.

Having recently been appointed as the agency for both Signature FSE and Panasonic, the company took the decision to hire someone with Jonathan’s experience to expand the senior team.

Andrew Taylor, founder of Eat PR & Marketing said: “We’re extremely proud to have Jonathan join Eat PR, further strengthening our offering and allowing him to use his knowledge and experience to benefit our growing client base.

"Having launched the business in 2021, we are honoured to work with such a distinguished portfolio of clients. This is something that is a testament to our team's hard work, dedication and understanding.

"To bolster the team with the experience and knowledge Jonathan can offer will both support future growth and deliver an even greater service to our existing clients.”

Jonathan said: “I’m delighted to have joined Eat PR & Marketing at such an exciting time in the company’s short history. Having recently secured several significant client wins and with further opportunities in the pipeline, the company has cemented its position as a highly respected agency.

"I’m very much looking forward to getting hands-on with day-to-day content creation and using my experience to develop comprehensive marketing strategies for all our clients.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.