Clients reveal the best specialist agencies for food and drink marketing
Data from The Drum Recommends reveals the biggest client-endorsed specialist food and drink agencies in the UK.
Data from The Drum Recommends shows the biggest client-endorsed agencies in the food and drink category / Unsplash
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The food and drink sector accounts for a huge portion of the UK’s top consumer brands and includes some of the country’s largest exporters.
For agencies, clients in this area can provide opportunities to flex creative chops and make work that stands out from the crowd. It’s no surprise that most of the British public’s favorite ads of all time are for brands in this area, from Hovis to Warburton’s and Cadbury’s to Guinness.
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But which agencies specializing in this sector have the biggest capacity to help clients? We trawled through data from The Drum Recommends to discover the largest agencies, by staff count, on our books that offer specialized services to this sector.
The table below shows each of those companies, alongside their staff headcount and the locations of their offices.
| Agency | Number of staff | Location |
|---|---|---|
| APS Group | 900 | Edinburgh, Manchester |
| Brave Bison | 169 | London |
| Bulletproof | 300 | London, New York |
| Eleven Miles | 110 | Bournemouth, London |
| Exposure Ninja | 110 | Nottingham |
| Golley Slater Group | 170 | Cardiff, Cirencester, Leeds, London |
| iCrossing UK | 105 | Brighton, Cardiff, London |
| MMT Digital | 170 | London |
| Paragon DCX | 300 | Dublin, Edinburgh, London |
| Pearlfisher | 150 | London, New York |
| Purple Agency | 200 | Basingstoke, Berlin, Chessington, Rome, Sao Paulo |
| RocketMill | 150 | Brighton, London |
| The River Group | 110 | London |
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