With a combined experience of over 150 years across our team, we bring a wealth of knowledge, creativity, and strategic expertise to every campaign.
As a dynamic and forward-thinking agency, we strive to constantly adapt to the evolving media landscape to ensure our clients stay ahead of the curve by embracing emerging trends and crafting captivating narratives that resonate with their target audiences.
Our team is made up of skilled communicators, media specialists, and creative storytellers who understand what it takes to make an impact. From crafting compelling press content to securing high-profile media coverage, we know how to get the right message in front of the right audience.
We take a results-driven approach, combining innovative thinking with proven strategies to deliver measurable success. Whether it’s building brand awareness, managing reputations, or driving engagement, we thrive on helping businesses tell their stories in a way that resonates.
At Century PR, we don’t just follow trends – we set them. Our passion for PR, coupled with our deep industry expertise, ensures that every campaign is tailored for maximum impact.
When you work with us, you’re not just hiring an agency – you’re gaining a dedicated partner committed to your success and delivering on its promises.
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An independent family owned business, Century PR was founded by experienced former journalist John Clarke OBE and his wife Celeste.
Originally launched as Central Public Relations, CPR was the first ever PR agency in Coventry enjoying swift expansion in its first four years in business, eventually selling to a southern-based marketing communications plc.
CPR was subsequently rebranded as Century PR and grew rapidly attracting and retaining major clients including TNT Express, London Taxis International, Coutts, Disney/Buena Vista, Grundig and NavTrak, to name but a few. Today Century is based in Regency offices in Royal Leamington Spa maintaining its core values of partnership, quality, transparency, creativity, consistency and innovation, underpinned by a results driven ethos and most importantly always delivering our promises.
Founder Directors John and Celeste Clarke are actively involved in the business and are also committed to supporting the local community and charitable causes.
John and Celeste Clarke, directors of Century PR, have been active in the community of Coventry and Warwickshire for many years, on the committees of local organisations as well as fundraising for charities including the NSPCC, Zoe’s Place and more recently the Coventry & Warwickshire Children’s Charity. They have previously organised an annual garden party at their home for 15 consecutive years, raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for Boole House, the former NSPCC Child Abuse Centre in Coventry.
We provide new and creative ideas that ensure our clients remain ahead of the curve. Research is a fundamental feature of our service and we consistently monitor latest industry trends and market challenges as well as keeping in close contact with our clients to not only ensure momentum is maintained, but the PR campaign is both relevant and dynamic.
We are proud of our reputation as a results driven agency. From the outset of a PR campaign we work closely with our clients to agree set objectives, establish an approved PR strategy plan and progressively communicate progress to support achieving the clients' business goals through PR. Most importantly our clients can consistently monitor and measure our PR performance and publicity results against their PR investment.
We continually strive for excellence in every aspect of our service to our clients. The longevitiy of our client relationships is evidence of their satisfaction with our performance and measurable results achieved against their PR investment.
Transparency is one of the key features of our service at Century. We strive for solutions, not excuses. If our clients are facing a crisis our clients they will receive considered advice that is sound and honest. The same company ethos applies to our day to day client/agency relationship. Total accountability and transparency standards embracing all PR campaigns. Our agreed fees are competitive with no hidden extras or expenses. Indeed, we often go the extra mile. In bottom line terms creating a PR partnership committed to building the images of our clients for their commercial benefit.
In today's 24-hour media landscape the ability to swiftly respond to media enquiries and deadlines is vital, whether for an industry comment or when there is a potential company crisis, Century PR staff are available seven days a week, often outside of office hours, if needed. We pride ourselves on our responsiveness which underpins our successful partnerships with our clients.
Century has demonstrated an understanding of the logistics industry that arises from a dedication and passion for the sector that matches our own.
The result is coverage that has raised our profile and spread the message that we are a trusted operator with a stellar reputation which in many cases has been instrumental in us winning new business.
Our ongoing partnership of more than a decade with Century has resulted in sustained media profile that delivers a meaningful and measurable advantage.
Working with Century PR is integral to our marketing strategy. Their PR material plays an important role in optimising our website SEO and enhancing our email campaigns, ensuring our messages reach the right audience with good quality content. Their PR work has been crucial in building our brand's reputation and driving our success in a competitive market. We consider Century PR an important partner in our overall marketing strategy that continues to bring us tangible results.
We initially approached Century PR to assist us with launching the rebrand of the business from Chiltern Cold Storage Group Ltd to JS Davidson Ltd. We were looking for a company who had a wealth of knowledge in the logistics industry and specifically a company that could help us grow the new brand. Century PR has gone above and beyond our expectations as our name is now recognised by the food and drinks industry as a key provider in tailored services within the industry.
Winning awards has provided great recognition of Imaginate’s achievements and has been a huge boost for the business and our employees. The award entries written by Century PR were superb and I would definitely recommend them to anyone who wants to raise their profile and build awareness through winning awards.
Century PR has worked with Contechs in rebranding the business along with developing our PR strategy. The collective experience provided is excellent, always very pro-active and dynamic, meeting our ever-changing business needs and future requirements.
We have won numerous awards through Century PR which has been of huge benefit to our business, not only boosting our brand profile, but also increasing our awareness as a progressive and successful business.
As a new company with brand development at the core of our strategy and speed of the essence in driving our operation, it was imperative for us to make the right choice of PR company at the outset.
We chose Century PR and they have done an excellent job to get us in front of all the key sector journalists and in all the right media in a very short space of time. They have become an essential part of our company.
I would recommend Century PR wholeheartedly with one caveat… I wouldn’t recommend them to our competition!
Celeste and the team at Century PR really took the time to understand the technical aspects of our business which made the production of articles and releases very efficient. This paid dividends in terms of our internal resource commitment as well as in the traction built in the marketplace.
Their proactive approach to managing our overall PR strategy further added to the value we derived from the relationship. In many cases a monthly review was sufficient to deliver a coherent effort covering both traditional and new media, in multiple markets, with very little intervention from us. By simply setting objectives we could be sure we were maximising the value add to our business.
Excellent service and great people to work with!
Century PR were recommended to the Cartwright Group early in 2010.
Since becoming our PR partner they were instrumental in significantly raising the profile of the Cartwright Group in the media.
Iincreased awareness and improved image led to an increase in sales enquiries and positive comments from some of our customers about our image in the industry.
Throughout my dealings with Century PR I could not fault their professionalism. Their knowledge and understanding of the parcels industry is exceptional and cannot be matched and they consistently delivered high quality results. Century PR was more than an agency but were an integral part of the team who played a key role in raising the profile of City Link in an often challenging marketplace.
Heart of England Co-operative Society utilised the services of Century PR for the for over 20 years and during that time achieved an unprecedented amount of positive PR coverage in the local and regional media.
This success has come about as a result of the careful planning and implementation of a comprehensive PR strategy, created through our partnership with Century PR and this dedication and professional approach has helped us to develop our business.
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