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Newcastle’s ramarketing reveals city expansion after US pharma wins

Newcastle-based creative, digital and PR agency ramarketing has expanded to a larger city centre site in its native Newcastle, after recording a strong year particularly in the life science and pharmaceutical industry.

Founded by Raman Sehgal in 2009, the agency has doubled its staff, seen its number of clients grow by 50% and turnover grow by 40% in the past 12 months.

Two significant US-based contract wins have strengthened the business’ niche in the pharma market, with the CIPR-accredited agency of the year adding the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS), based in Washington DC, and Massachusetts-based Tracelink to its books.

The business is now based in larger premises at Bealim House’s Loft 2, located on Gallowgate, after outgrowing its former property at Arch 2 on Westgate Road.

Lindsay Baldry, head of pharma PR at ramarketing, said: “The addition of these North American companies to our existing client portfolio of over 30 companies in the life sciences, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing is a landmark moment for ramarketing.”

Along with a core base of clients regionally and across the UK, ramarketing is now exporting around 40% of its services to countries like the USA, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden.

Matthew Clark, vice president of brand management at RAPS, said: “We were referred to ramarketing from a colleague in our editorial team and were so impressed by the team’s track record, approach and knowledge of the life science space. We felt ramarketing was the stand-out agency of the several we approached.

“We are expanding our brand into Europe and ramarketing will play a pivotal role in building our media profile in this key territory and supporting several events we are hosting across Europe in 2017.”

Lindsay added: “We are very proud of our North East roots, but have always had global aspirations based firmly on our knowledge of the life science and drug development space paired of course with our expertise in design, web and content.

“Our ongoing success is testament to a clear vision and our committed team – who are industry experts and are the best at what they do. Given the recent growth of our client base, we are now looking out for exceptional individuals to join our team – we have very exciting times ahead.”