Leading Oxfordshire PR agency BOTTLE has bolstered its senior PR team with the promotion of two key senior staff.
Antonia Taylor and Victoria McGovern, previously Senior PR Consultant at the agency, have been promoted to Associate Directors.
Antonia currently leads a number of corporate and consumer-facing PR campaigns, including Rentokil Pest Control, Hyperoptic, Macintyre Hudson and Proskills.
Prior to BOTTLE, Antonia spent seven years at GCI (now part of Cohn & Wolfe) where she was a key member of the corporate team, specializing in business support clients. Antonia was also responsible for Dell’s Corporate EMEA Communications programme, managing a network of PR teams across 29 markets, delivering strategic PR programmes with priority business media, and providing issues and crisis management counsel.
Victoria, named Young PR Professional at the national Fresh PR Awards in March 2011, currently leads a number of key accounts including borro.com, musicMagpie, re:creation and Parker’s, part of Bauer Media Group.
Before joining BOTTLE, Victoria worked at integrated marketing agency The JJ Group, developing and implementing award winning consumer PR campaigns across a wide range of clients including VTech, sharedspaces.co.uk, LINK ATM and VocaLink.
Victoria and Antonia will continue to work across key accounts and drive new business but their new roles will also involve working more closely with the company Directors to enhance BOTTLE’s offering and continuely grow the business.
Claire Cairns, Founder and Director at BOTTLE says: “We are committed to growing the business at all levels and professionals of Antonia’s and Victoria’s calibre are not overlooked. We are in a strong position as an agency with growth standing at 29% year on year compared with an industry average of just 9.24%. We are delighted to have both on board as Associate Directors and look forward to continuing this level of growth in the future.”
BOTTLE is one of the fastest growing PR agencies outside London and has a portfolio of national brands from Poundland to Rentokil, 3M to Experian FootFall.