Leading communications agencies PLMR and Park Street Partners have announced a strategic partnership with effect from 1st June 2020.
The new partnership will allow both agencies to collaborate closely on new business development and joint work for clients, as well as supporting each other’s growth plans. The agencies will share resources, talent and insights, working together or operating independently depending on client and business needs.
PLMR and Park Street Partners, both of which are shortlisted in the PRovoke Awards for EMEA Agencies of the Year 2020 (as Best Public Affairs Consultancy and Best New Consultancy respectively) have already this year worked together on joint campaigns for clients across a number of shared sectors including energy, housing and transport. The new partnership takes these relationships to the next level.
The agencies will cooperate on new business where there is mutual benefit, sharing experience and skillsets, working on marketing activities, and supporting their growth and company cultures.
“We see this as an important initiative which will benefit staff and clients alike,” said PLMR’s Kevin Craig.
“Our approaches to clients and our work are very similar. This partnership will not only benefit our business’s progression and development, but working with someone of Gavin Devine’s calibre means we are adding an additional dimension and wealth of agency experience to the operation of PLMR’s senior team in a crucial phase of our growth.”
“The partnership is a reflection of both agencies’ desire to stay forward looking even during the most challenging business climate.”
“This new partnership will bring major benefits to both agencies,” said Park Street Partners’ Gavin Devine.
“Being able to support one another and collaborate across all aspects of our work will bring very significant benefits, in the case of Park Street Partners by adding a top drawer full service element to complement our existing network of experts approach.”
“The PLMR senior team have a compelling vision for growing their business strongly over the coming months and years. I hope to play my part in helping them realise their ambitions to grow both organically and through strategic acquisitions.”
Notes
PLMR is a fully integrated public affairs, PR, crisis communications and digital agency was founded in 2006. It has offices in London, Birmingham, the East of England and Scotland, and is one of the fastest growing communications companies in the UK. The agency delivers award winning work across a range of sectors including social care, energy, education, FMCG, health, planning, transport and technology.
Park Street Partners was founded in 2018 and is a virtual agency based on a network of experts across a wide range of communications disciplines. It was set up by Gavin Devine, the former Chief Executive of MHP Communications who between 2004 and 2016 was part of the senior leadership team that took public affairs boutique AS Biss & Co through mergers, acquisitions and major strategic recruitments to establish MHP as a nearly 200 people strong agency in London, Hong Kong, Brussels and Edinburgh. He was then Chief Executive of Newgate and COO of Porta before founding Park Street.
Gavin is a well-known senior public affairs and corporate communications professional who has advised some of the biggest UK-based and multinational companies and other organisations. He is on the board of the PRCA and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Public Affairs Board, and was awarded an MBA in 2004.