BIG Partnership

Background

The Big Partnership [1] is one of the UK's largest PR firms. According to the 'PR Week' league table it ranks 2nd in Scotland and top 5 for the UK outside London. Current turnover is around £2.5m

Associates

Catchline Communications [2] is a sister company of The Big Partnership

Function

This firm provides a range of PR services including international consumer campaigns,crisis and reputation management, speech writing and media training to its clients.

People

Formed in 2000 by Alex Barr, Graham Isdale and Neil Gibson. The North of Scotland operation is headed by company director Zoe Corsi. 40 employees are based in its Glasgow H.Q. In Scotland there are also offices in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness.

Clients

Big Partnership's clients include:

• ScottishPower [3]
  • ScottishPower featured at 6th place in the Scottish Environment Protection Agency's (SEPA) 'roll of shame' for 'failing pollution assessments' and having 'one of the worst pollution records in Scotland' (S Herald, 24 July 2005)
• De Vere [4]
• Deloitte [5]
• Coors [6]
• Dundas and Wilson (Scotland’s largest law firm) [7]
• Celtic Football Club [8]
• Aberdeen Football Club [9]
• Scottish Rugby (formerly SRU) [10]
• HayGroup [11]
• British Energy [12]
• Scottish Enterprise [13]
• Scottish Executive [14]
  • Spent £1.3m on information campaigns in 18 months to Feb 2006. The money was spent on just 4 firms.
  • Consolidated Communications took the lion's share of spending (£600,808)
  • £193,845 was paid to The Big Partnership. (Freedom of Information Act info reported in Aberdeen Press and Journal and The Scotsman 18 Feb 2006).
• learndirect scotland [15]
• National Semiconductor [16]
• Aberdeen Asset Management [17]
• Clydeport [18]