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Award-winning Exeter agency Absolute PR and Marketing is celebrating 21 years in business with a brand refresh which reflects the agency and team’s passion for building brands with purpose.

Born out of a shared drive for delivering meaningful and purposeful work that has a positive impact, be that for clients or for the wider benefit of society and the climate, Absolute has adopted a sustainability plan to evidence its commitment to positive change.

The plan shows how the agency and its team walks the talk and aligns actions and activities with five of the United Nation’s...

National law firm Ashfords has appointed Sam Hunt as its new marketing & client development director, as it looks to future growth and the further development of its client service offer.

Sam is an experienced marketer having spent over 20 years’ working with professional services businesses across the marketing and business development mix, most recently at TLT where she led the firm’s Marketing Communications and Campaigns team and prior to that with Osborne Clarke and PwC. Sam will work with the Ashford’s Board and the firm’s CEO Louise Workman to help define, shape and...

Leading Exeter-based paid media agency, Launch, has announced the appointment of Mike Sharp as Operations Director.

Sharp, who joins Launch from digital agency Adapt Worldwide, will take the newly created role within Launch to support the company’s fast growth.

Launch has made huge advances over the past 12 months, driven by the boom in digital during the pandemic. Since the start of the year, the agency has doubled its revenue to exceed £1m, and employed a further 10 people to grow the agency’s total headcount to 20. Ambitious plans for 2022 have the company on track to...

Exeter-based haulage operator, STR Logistics Limited is the latest company to join Palletways, Europe’s largest and fastest growing express palletised freight network which is part of JSE-listed Imperial Logistics (Imperial). STR Logistics will operate pallet handling and distribution services across the English Riviera and surrounding areas of Teignmouth and Newton Abbott for Palletways and its customers.

Anthony Quinn, STR joint managing director/owner, said: “Palletways has significant, well-defined domestic and pan-European distribution routes which we know will add value to...