Christmas comes early for Marketing PRojects - New Year, New Wins
Award-winning PR specialists Marketing PRojects has, on behalf of their clients Driveme.net, helped to win planning permission for a world class driver experience centre near Stafford following a three year project.
Marketing PRojects, which was recently shortlisted for two How-do Awards, has also won new clients: Stillmuchtooffer.co.uk, an online recruitment company for the over 55’s, wildlife artist Clare Shaughnessy and IT performance experts DiagnoSys.
Christleton based Marketing PRojects was involved in PR at every stage of Driveme’s plans to build a sustainable £9 million driving experience centre in a rural area of Staffordshire, which will create 96 jobs. Marketing PRojects’s crisis management skills were put to the test, following protests from residents that the development would increase noise and traffic. Marketing PRojects helped to turn around a negative perception within the local press, so that a more balanced view was expressed.
Marketing PRojects’ current clients include: Chester City of Giants, Chester & District Housing Trust, national catering experts Cucina, European luxury holiday specialists Grand Tourist and Waltons the Jewellers.
Jane Harrad-Roberts, MD of Marketing PRojects, said:
“The recent Driveme decision is fantastic news which followed a six-day public inquiry and maintains Marketing PRojects’s 100 per cent record with planning applications. Marketing PRojects attended Parish Council and Borough Council planning meetings as well as coordinating BBC news teams, local press and leading planning, architects, landscape, design, acoustic and highway engineering specialists. We are also delighted with our recent gains which prove that Marketing PRojects is going from strength-to-strength across the North West and enhancing our reputation nationally.”
Allan Davies, Director at Driveme.net, added:
“I would like to thank Marketing PRojects for all of their help during this long planning application; the planning decision vindicates the faith we have had in our advisors. Common sense has prevailed and we can now proceed towards practical implementation with complete confidence that will secure and generate employment and economic benefits, whilst allowing us to develop the centre as a leading driver experience and training centre destination which shall be operated with sensitivity for the community and environment.”
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Marketing PRojects in Milan for their Xmas lunch this week: (L-R) Phil Brotherhood, head of PR, John Choppin, PR and marketing executive and Jane Harrad-Roberts, managing director.
Notes to Editors:
Marketing Projects ‘fired-up’ in May 1995. In 1997, the business was named ‘Chester New Business of the Year" for “its growth, reputation and use of new technology”. In 1999 it won an award for its use of technology and its e-commerce web site from part of the DTI. In February 2000, Marketing Projects opened a London office in St George’s Street, Mayfair in London, a convenient meeting point for clients, editors and journalists. The Chester office moved to larger premises in August 2000 and doubled office space in 2002. The London office moved to larger premises in Hanover Square in October 2009.
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