themission® agency thinkBDW continues aggressive expansion plans
25th September 2007
The Mission Marketing Group plc ('themission®'), the national marketing communications and advertising group, announces that its specialist property marketing and design agency thinkBDW, acquired in March, has opened two new regional offices in Bristol and Leicester.
Due to be fully operational next month, these will be followed by the end of this year with offices in Scotland and the north of England. The company's operational hubs will remain in its Colchester and Soho offices where the agencies 80 staff work on clients including St George, SpicerHaart, St James, Gladedale, Bellway, George Wimpey, Taylor Woodrow, HBoS Estate Agency and Barratt.
Currently, thinkBDW operates predominantly in the South East of England, and buys media nationally via its London-based media division, Think Media. The Bristol and Leicester offices will take advantage of themission®'s facilities and services offered in these regions. The new regional offices will handle media planning & buying and creative services for clients in those areas who will be able to take advantage of the agency's substantial buying power and design expertise. This has recently been utilised in projects ranging from international marketing for Arsenal's Highbury Stadium to Wimpey's touch screen technology for marketing suites.
Robert Day, Managing Director of thinkBDW commented, "The company had experienced strong growth prior to joining themission®, with turnover increasing from £3.5m four years ago to a forecast £21m this year. Creating a national office network with themission® will enable us to build on this continued success while giving us a great opportunity to increase market share."
Iain Ferguson, Chief Executive of themission® said: " themission® and thinkBDW are delighted at this expansion. One of our Group values is about collaboration. It is great to see Bray Leino, through their Bristol office, and Big Communications in the Midlands working hand in hand with BDW to turn that vision into operational reality just a few months after thinkBDW joined our Group. themission®'s geographical footprint across the UK now extends to 10 offices and provides opportunities to agencies to provide specialist services to clients by leveraging our other operations. "
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