Pictured: Chief Executive Mark Thomas

A company based in Leicestershire has been named as one of the country's top public sector PR consultancies in a new poll published today.

Hinckley-based Word Association was the highest listed PR consultancy in the East Midlands in trade journal PR Week's annual league table which ranks out-of-London agencies. The company was also ranked 9th in the magazine's list of top public sector agencies across the UK. 

The league table is based on the PR companies' total income, number of clients and number of staff during 2010. Word Association came in 9th place with an income of £754,000, 20 clients and 13 staff.

The achievements reaffirm Word Association's status as one of the leading businesses in the industry and are evidence of the company's solid record of growth, despite the difficult climate.

Chief Executive Mark Thomas said: "Reaching this position by increasing turnover by 9% when most other agencies have seen big falls is an achievement that speaks for itself.

"We have managed it by responding robustly to the new environment and finding new opportunities, such as meeting the increasing need to deliver added value and provide more for less.

"As a consultancy with a deep understanding of the sector, offering evaluated solutions that are up to date with latest communications trends, we are confident we will continue to prosper as more public sector organisations decide they should be working with us."

PR is just one of the services offered by Word Association which also offers design, events, marketing strategy, publications and new media. 

The consultancy has clients across the private, public and voluntary sectors.