Mason Williams, one of the region’s consistently best known and successful PR agencies celebrates 21 years in business this week.
The agency, founded by former hacks John Williams and Rita Rowe (nee Mason) has won so many industry awards “we got to 60 and stopped counting” Rowe told How-Do.
The agency has worked with a number of leading brands including: Monopoly, Subbuteo, Rowenta, Northern Dairies, Batchelors Mushy Peas (“we got them back onto plates and chip shops everywhere”) Cluedo, News International, Star Wars (the movie), Hasbro, Selfridges and Speedo.
The agency has proved to be a fertile breeding ground over the years for PR and comms talent with ex staffers including Anthony Taylor (head of corp comms at Littlewoods), Sandra McDowell (MD of Connectpoint PR) and Nina Wheeler (owner of Brazen PR).
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The agency today employs 40 staff. Twenty seven at its Ardwick Manchester base and the balance in London and Hitchin (Herts). Williams and Rowe divide their time between the three offices and a secluded farm house in Majorca.
Prior to Mason Williams, John Williams co-founded Staniforth Williams with Phil Staniforth. Before entering the world of PR, Williams had been working at the Daily Mail in Manchester. Rowe had worked at the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and the Halifax Courier.
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