WORLD TOP 250 PR AGENCIES

TOP 250

Revenue numbers for many agencies include subsidiaries—including research, advertising, and specialist PR firms—many of which operate under separate brands but nevertheless report into the listed PR agency. For full methodology please visit worldreport.holmesreport.com/methodology. For firms that submitted numbers in pounds sterling or euros, conversions were made using exchange rates as of 12/31/2013. In some cases, where last year’s submitted numbers were used for comparison purposes, growth numbers may be lower because of exchange rate fluctuations than they would have been in constant currency terms. Aside from large PR networks above $100m in fee income, the Rankings are totally dependent on submitted fee income; many agencies, often well-known, choose not to submit their numbers.

For entries in this color, The Holmes Report has estimated revenues for these firms. In many cases, the parent companies of these firms have elected not to provide revenue numbers for individual firms in response to Sarbanes-Oxley financial regulations.

2014

2013

Agency

HQ

Fee Income 2013 ($)sort icon

Fee Income 2012 ($)

Growth (%)

Staff

1 1
Edelman
USA 746,672,274 665,600,000 12.2 5,113
2 2
Weber Shandwick
USA 697,468,500 628,350,000 11.0 —
3 3
FleishmanHillard
USA 554,190,000 546,000,000 1.5 —
4 4
MSLGroup1
France 547,040,000 526,000,000 4.0 —
5 6
Ketchum
USA 490,000,000 440,000,000 11.4 —
6 5
Burson-Marsteller
USA 454,500,000 454,500,000 0.0 —
7 7
Hill+Knowlton Strategies
USA 386,100,000 390,000,000 -1.0 —
8 8
Ogilvy PR
USA 297,000,000 297,000,000 0.0 —
9 10
Brunswick
UK 210,000,000 210,000,000 0.0 —
10 9
Havas PR
France 209,000,000 199,000,000 5.0 1,200
11 12
GolinHarris
USA 196,000,000 175,000,000 12.0 —
12 11
FTI Consulting
USA 186,200,000 186,700,000 -0.3 —
13 15
Media Consulta International
Germany 166,861,800 143,233,200 16.5 674
14 13
Cohn & Wolfe
USA 162,180,000 159,000,000 2.0 —
15 15
Grayling
UK 130,144,000 132,912,000 -2.1 —
16 19
BlueFocus (BlueDigital)2
China 123,361,000 87,771,000 40.5 3,500
17 16
APCO Worldwide
USA 120,345,400 121,800,000 -1.2 658
18 18
Porter Novelli
USA 120,000,000 116,000,000 3.4 —
19 17
Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, Inc.
USA 117,608,000 118,462,000 -0.7 625
20 23
RLM Finsbury
US/UK 100,000,000 n/a n/a —
21 21
Chandler Chicco Companies
USA 83,600,000 76,000,000 10.0 —
22 22
FSB Comunicações
Brazil 77,000,000 71,006,375 8.4 —
23 25
W2O Group
USA 75,000,000 62,005,000 21.0 —
24 20
Public Système Hopscotch
France 73,526,153 77,395,950 -5.0 —
25 24
Kreab Gavin Anderson
UK/Sweden 66,000,000 66,600,000 -0.9 —
26 26
Res Publica (National PR)
Canada 64,000,000 60,000,000 6.7 —
27 27
Ruder Finn, Inc.
USA 63,249,000 56,148,000 12.6 —
28 n/a
Vector Inc.
Japan 62,000,000 50,000,000 24.0 286
29 30
Instinctif Partners
UK 54,249,233 47,263,287 14.8 355
30 31
fischerAppelt
Germany 52,003,000 46,345,275 12.2 340
31 28
Text100 Corporation
USA 51,975,031 50,890,670 2.1 481
32 33
Freud Communications
UK 49,954,314 45,413,013 10.0 —
33 35
MWW
USA 48,020,000 42,875,000 12.0 217
34 29
Bell Pottinger Private
UK 47,500,000 47,313,690 0.4 229
35 39
Lewis PR
UK 45,848,320 35,819,000 28.0 —
36 n/a
Brodeur Partners
USA 45,000,000 n/a n/a —
37 32
Hering Schuppener
Germany 44,688,000 46,279,350 -3.4 —
38 43
Finn Partners3
USA 44,400,000 32,293,000 37.5 287
39 41
DeVries Global
USA 42,000,000 35,000,000 20.0 —
40 36
Dentsu Public Relations Inc.4
Japan 40,000,000 42,000,000 -4.8 —
41 54
Zeno Group
USA 39,200,000 24,412,282 60.6 —
42 37
Citigate Dewe Rogerson
UK 38,678,000 39,810,486 -2.8 —
43 60
We Are Social
UK 38,677,478 22,750,085 70.0 450
44 40
Marina Maher Communications
USA 38,000,000 35,000,000 8.6 —
45 38
PRAP Japan, Inc.
Japan 37,000,000 36,229,000 2.1 263
46 55
Racepoint Global10
USA 34,000,000 23,543,959 44.4 127
47 44
MHP Communications
UK 33,209,960 29,601,135 12.2 172
48 48
Good Relations Group
UK 33,200,000 26,087,566 27.3 —
49 42
DKC Public Relations
USA 32,896,560 32,896,560 0.0 171
50 82
PadillaCRT5
USA 32,333,400 16,875,860 91.6 192
51 65
PPR
Australia 30,200,000 20,488,112 47.4 250
52 46
Citizen Relations
USA 28,785,000 28,500,000 1.0 —
53 52
Allison+Partners
USA 28,093,000 25,000,000 12.4 165
54 n/a
MÁQUINA PUBLIC RELATIONS
Brazil 27,459,408 24,895,202 10.3 250
55 51
Llorente & Cuenca
Spain 27,427,260 25,183,350 8.9 330
56 58
Blue Rubicon
UK 26,842,029 23,412,960 12.8 —
57 47
Bite
USA 26,368,273 26,895,639 -2.0 —
58 50
Hotwire Public Relations
UK 26,094,207 25,626,802 1.8 173
59 n/a
Global Strategy Group
USA 25,000,000 24,917,000 0.3 72
60 53
AGT Communications Group
Russia 24,836,942 24,808,978 0.1 —
61 n/a
Exposure
UK 24,652,252 22,756,112 8.3 200
62 76
Mikhailov & Partners
Russia 23,309,000 18,870,372 23.5 104
63 63
Oliver Schrott Kommunikation
Germany 22,902,600 21,908,196 4.5 130
64 73
Gibbs & Soell, Inc.
USA 22,490,108 19,734,980 14.0 127
65 69
Tonic Health
UK 22,159,535 20,053,878 10.5 —
66 59
Fishburn
UK 22,000,000 22,762,600 -3.4 —
67 62
The Red Consultancy
UK 21,414,000 22,564,240 -5.1 —
68 72
ICF Mostra6
Belgium 21,413,000 19,752,785 8.4 158
69 71
Taylor
USA 21,100,000 19,800,000 6.6 105
70 61
Four Communications Group plc
UK 20,916,000 18,800,000 11.3 —
71 n/a
SPN Communications
Russia 20,121,836 n/a n/a 154
72 70
Coyne PR
USA 20,040,000 20,027,000 0.1 133
73 74
The Outcast Agency
USA 20,000,000 19,240,000 4.0 87
74 66
Strategic Public Relations Group
Hong Kong 20,000,000 20,320,000 -1.6 279
75 49
Barabino & Partners
Italy 19,950,000 24,000,000 -16.9 —
76 n/a
Prain Global
Korea 19,892,451 16,017,266 24.2 140
77 83
A&B One
Germany 19,471,200 16,744,950 16.3 93
78 68
Geelmuyden.Kiese Group
Norway 19,471,200 20,161,160 -3.4 90
79 80
French/West/Vaughan
USA 18,801,845 17,186,330 9.4 89
80 97
Shift Communications Inc.
USA 18,600,000 14,225,795 30.7 —
81 93
Hunter Public Relations
USA 18,417,092 14,554,310 26.5 108
82 n/a
iMARS Group
Russia 18,100,000 14,650,000 23.5 127
83 64
CROS
Russia 18,000,000 21,550,000 -16.5 —
84 85
Peppercomm
USA 17,637,036 16,172,652 9.1 77
85 89
Prosek Partners
USA 17,398,091 15,000,000 16.0 68
86 67
Interel
Belgium 17,290,000 20,173,050 -14.3 —
87 88
Adfactors PR
India 17,240,000 15,400,000 11.9 —
88 n/a
Serviceplan PR Group
Germany 17,210,200 n/a n/a 93
89 96
M Booth
USA 17,088,234 14,240,195 20.0 125
90 91
Olson Engage7
USA 16,891,000 14,750,000 14.5 87
91 84
Inforpress
Spain 16,881,690 16,540,583 2.1 187
92 108
Fahlgren Mortine
USA 16,842,065 12,397,732 35.8 97
93 98
5W Public Relations
USA 16,019,492 14,188,564 12.9 105
94 86
Farner Consulting
Switzerland 15,960,000 16,100,000 -0.9 65
95 92
PR One
South Korea 15,911,644 14,746,544 7.9 140
96 106
Lansons
UK 15,521,430 12,605,912 23.1 77
97 87
Maitland
UK 15,400,000 15,446,050 -0.3 —
98 100
Haberlein & Mauerer
Germany 15,295,000 13,976,100 9.4 166
99 121
Iris Worldwide
UK 15,035,488 10,858,856 41.9 109
100 90
ergo Kommunikation
Germany 15,029,000 14,899,050 0.9 131
101 94
Mitchell Communications Group, LLC
USA 15,000,000 14,335,377 4.6 85
102 101
Brands2Life
UK 14,599,036 13,169,790 10.9 106
103 99
Faktor 3
Germany 14,364,000 13,976,100 2.8 143
104 98
Makovsky
USA 14,250,000 13,000,000 9.6 55
105 75
Cooney/Waters Group
USA 14,020,940 18,961,000 -26.1 55
106 176
Newgate Communications
UK 13,573,958 5,463,024 148.5 —
107 95
achtung!
Germany 13,472,900 14,305,725 -5.8 104
108 111
Jackson Spalding
USA 13,471,600 12,095,500 11.4 93
109 120
TRACCS
Saudi Arabia 13,323,000 10,870,000 22.6 203
110 109
AMI Communications
Czech Republic 13,169,919 12,262,050 7.4 113
111 107
Formula
USA 13,099,005 12,518,123 4.6 119
112 79
Rowland
Australia 12,500,000 17,943,977 -30.3 —
113 141
Hanover
UK 12,450,000 8,555,486 45.5 54
114 117
First House
Norway 12,444,810 11,284,427 10.3 30
115 78
Action Global Communications
Cyprus 12,400,000 14,000,000 -11.4 —
116 102
RF Binder
USA 12,300,000 13,136,803 -6.4 76
117 123
Levick Strategic Communications
USA 12,273,538 10,793,299 13.7 46
118 115
Nelson Bostock Group
UK 11,875,640 11,533,842 3.0 78
119 n/a
F&H Porter Novelli
Germany 11,837,000 11,576,400 2.3 58
120 110
Jeschenko MedienAgentur
Germany 11,610,900 12,182,940 -4.7 51
121 119
Wellcom
France 11,438,000 11,207,250 2.1 —
122 118
SparkPR
USA 11,360,750 11,280,339 0.7 48
123 132
LaunchSquad
USA 11,341,707 9,387,224 20.8 96
124 105
Frank PR
UK 11,333,617 12,901,144 -12.2 59
125 113
Davies
USA 10,980,650 11,955,649 -8.2 35
126 122
Kaplow
USA 10,868,000 10,850,000 0.2 66
127 n/a
Miltton
Finland 10,507,000 n/a n/a 95
128 125
TVC Group
UK 10,500,000 10,568,350 -0.6 60
129 n/a
Grupo CDI – Comunicação e Marketing
Brasil 10,200,000 8,500,000 20.0 184
130 n/a
SEC4
Italy 10,000,000 n/a n/a —
131 n/a
Veritas
Canada 10,000,000 n/a n/a 70
132 124
Rasky Baerlein
USA 9,957,467 10,689,403 -6.8 38
133 116
124 Communications Consulting
Thailand 9,956,522 11,450,000 -13.0 —
134 151
Pegasus
UK 9,629,117 7,596,205 26.8 64
135 133
Approach
Brazil 9,452,400 9,300,000 1.6 105
136 140
Red Door Communications
UK 9,439,650 8,581,500 10.0 —
137 145
Lift Consulting
Portugal 9,425,354 8,247,365 14.3 90
138 138
The Hoffman Agency
USA 9,422,000 8,650,000 8.9 110
139 n/a
Advice A/S
Denmark 9,385,282 8,488,173 10.6 66
140 147
Agence Elan
France 9,310,000 8,042,850 15.8 —
141 139
SenateSHJ
New Zealand 9,255,358 8,635,117 7.2 —
142 144
JeffreyGroup
USA 9,201,011 8,400,330 9.5 107
143 136
3 Monkeys Communications
UK 9,130,000 9,058,038 0.8 62
144 157
Max Borges Agency
USA 9,100,000 6,910,743 31.7 2
145 134
TBWA/Corporate
France 9,000,000 9,229,500 -2.5 —
146 146
Octopus
UK 8,840,000 8,179,903 8.1 61
147 n/a
Murphy O’Brien
USA 8,818,200 7,400,652 19.2 38
148 163
Mischief
UK 8,798,000 6,394,665 37.6 70
149 143
KPR & Associates
South Korea 8,668,970 8,444,506 2.7 99
150 150
Eulogy!
UK 8,644,748 7,788,061 11.0 50
151 n/a
Merritt Group, Inc.
US 8,599,395 9,220,283 -6.7 39
152 159
Pro-Vision Communications
Russia 8,591,874 6,796,308 26.4 75
153 142
Kwittken
USA 8,400,000 7,304,348 15.0 —
154 n/a
Way To Blue
UK 8,025,459 5,986,553 34.1 60
155 148
Horn Group
USA 8,000,000 8,000,000 0.0 45
156 n/a
Exponent
USA 7,700,000 n/a n/a —
157 137
Kirchhoff Consult
Germany 7,574,350 8,702,100 -13.0 59
158 n/a
EMG
The Netherlands 7,448,000 7,392,000 0.8 49
159 149
Airfoil Group
USA 7,382,549 7,867,069 -6.2 —
160 n/a
Podesta Group
US 7,374,124 6,144,941 20.0 18
161 n/a
Gregory FCA
USA 7,300,000 7,300,000 0.0 42
162 156
Marco de Comunicacion
Spain 7,182,000 6,922,125 3.8 —
163 135
Diplomat Communications
Sweden 7,049,000 9,229,500 -23.6 —
164 174
Dodge Communications
USA 7,006,911 5,510,756 27.1 46
165 162
Fink & Fuchs Public Relations
Germany 6,982,500 6,460,650 8.1 67
166 167
Talk PR
UK 6,972,000 6,023,960 15.7 50
167 153
komm.passion
Germany 6,916,000 7,251,750 -4.6 50
168 n/a
Englander Knabe & Allen
USA 6,700,000 6,100,000 9.8 20
169 152
CP/compartner
Germany 6,650,000 7,515,450 -11.5 70
170 n/a
akkanto sa
Belgium 6,570,200 5,910,960 11.2 29
171 165
Lou Hammond & Associates
USA 6,552,466 6,318,272 3.7 40
172 n/a
Jungrelations AB
Sweden 6,498,380 6,449,520 0.8 41
173 158
Imagem Corporativa
Brazil 6,487,000 6,732,343 -3.6 —
174 186
FoodMinds
USA 6,432,640 4,859,213 32.4 23
175 n/a
Rumeur Publique

France 6,251,000 6,204,000 0.8 43
176 169
Bliss Integrated Communications
USA 6,231,000 5,698,000 9.4 37
177 160
Public Communications Inc.
USA 6,214,154 6,546,731 -5.1 49
178 166
Lambert, Edwards & Associates
USA 6,188,000 6,026,000 2.7 40
179 189
360 Public Relations
USA 6,170,000 4,752,383 29.8 38
180 182
salt
UK 6,142,000 5,015,902 22.5 —
181 178
Spectrum
USA 6,102,379 5,225,000 16.8 31
182 203
Highwire
USA 6,022,255 4,093,335 47.1 36
183 168
PAN Communications
USA 6,008,000 6,002,000 0.1 38
184 164
Shine
UK 6,000,000 6,342,636 -5.4 —
185 173
RBB Public Relations, LLC
USA 5,810,104 5,603,460 3.7 33
186 171
McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations
USA 5,605,768 5,640,530 -0.6 52
187 184
Linhart PR
USA 5,481,205 4,899,244 11.9 28
188 n/a
YJOO
Switzerland 5,400,000 n/a n/a —
189 161
MCG Medical Consulting Group
Germany 5,333,300 6,473,835 -17.6 36
190 n/a
Furrer.Hugi&Partner AG
Switzerland 5,331,970 4,741,440 12.5 25
191 n/a
Narva
Sweden 5,320,000 3,300,000 61.2 26
192 187
ReviveHealth
USA 5,300,000 4,850,000 9.3 24
193 175
JP Kom
Germany 5,187,000 5,500,000 -5.7 38
194 183
Singer Associates
USA 5,063,344 4,907,595 3.2 17
195 193
Integral PR Services Pvt Limited
India 5,050,000 4,600,000 9.8 78
196 224
Threepipe Communications Limited9
UK 4,980,000 3,132,048 59.0 55
197 n/a
Coonic
Spain 4,918,957 5,534,683 -11.1 57
198 n/a
Saxum
US 4,918,713 4,070,590 20.8 32
199 n/a
Nyhus Communications
United States 4,907,974 4,195,255 17.0 16
200 n/a
Bersay Communications Group
Turkey 4,901,287 4,622,340 6.0 58
201 190
Kaltwasser Kommunikation
Germany 4,841,200 4,733,415 2.3 32
202 n/a
All Channels
Bulgaria 4,814,904 n/a n/a —
203 n/a
ikp
Austria 4,721,500 4,530,636 4.2 32
204 201
Creative Crest
India 4,712,400 4,200,000 12.2 72
205 199
Tangerine PR
UK 4,706,100 4,294,002 9.6 —
206 197
L C Williams & Associates
USA 4,659,667 4,404,394 5.8 30
207 n/a
Bray Leino PR
UK 4,648,000 4,435,455 4.8 33
208 211
Berkeley PR International
UK 4,469,680 3,633,887 23.0 —
209 192
CooperKatz & Company, Inc.
USA 4,465,856 4,622,315 -3.4 30
210 n/a
Bateman Group
USA 4,400,000 3,090,454 42.4 29
211 n/a
JMW kommunikation
Sweden 4,300,000 4,000,000 7.5 24
212 200
cirkle
UK 4,150,958 4,254,980 -2.4 26
213 n/a
Akima Media
Germany 4,150,000 3,500,000 18.6 31
214 198
Intermarket Communications
USA 4,128,335 4,312,805 -4.3 16
215 185
Haas & Health Partner
Germany 4,123,000 4,878,450 -15.5 32
216 206
Lane
USA 4,109,561 3,968,034 3.6 26
217 216
Whyte Corporate Affairs
Belgium 4,084,000 3,446,559 18.5 —
218 196
Pretty Green
UK 4,083,600 4,435,455 -7.9 —
219 212
Trigger Oslo
Norway 4,017,917 3,559,950 12.9 26
220 194
Cerrell Associates
US 4,001,072 4,505,793 -11.2 22
221 209
HBI International
Germany 3,963,400 3,810,465 4.0 22
222 208
GroundFloor Media
USA 3,944,744 3,874,878 1.8 21
223 n/a
RMA Comunicação
Brazil 3,900,000 2,920,000 33.6 70
224 229
W Communications
UK 3,867,800 2,895,728 33.6 35
225 n/a
Walker Sands
USA 3,811,380 2,920,449 30.5 43
226 217
Dukas Public Relations
USA 3,741,809 3,438,000 8.8 17
227 n/a
nota bene
Spain 3,724,000 3,696,000 0.8 37
228 202
Standing Partnership
USA 3,704,065 4,100,532 -9.7 —
229 n/a
DABO & CO
UAE 3,701,459 3,065,782 20.7 48
230 219
The Skills Group
Austria 3,649,520 3,296,250 10.7 18
231 214
CCgroup
UK 3,643,610 3,485,021 4.6 23
232 n/a
PLMR
UK 3,627,799 2,615,782 38.7 29
233 n/a
Meropa Communications
South Africa 3,500,000 3,500,000 0.0 41
234 n/a
Crossroads
US 3,331,926 2,746,000 21.3 15
235 n/a
EML Wildfire
UK 3,320,000 n/a n/a 26
236 218
Storymaker
Germany 3,298,400 3,335,805 -1.1 30
237 n/a
HB Agency
USA 3,277,000 2,514,000 30.4 21
238 n/a
RockOrange
USA 3,200,000 n/a n/a —
239 127
Fortune PR
Indonesia 3,183,509 10,055,460 -68.3 —
240 n/a
PRAM Consulting
Czech Republic 3,139,285 5,663,907 -44.6 10
241 n/a
CAP & CIME PR SAS
France 3,066,804 2,373,376 29.2 22
242 n/a
Publicum Group
Lithuania 3,060,000 2,164,000 41.4 58
243 227
Schwartz Public Relations
Germany 3,029,740 2,900,700 4.4 21
244 n/a
Asesores de Relaciones Públicas y Comunicación
Spain 3,029,578 3,006,799 0.8 41
245 n/a
profile PR
France 2,926,000 2,904,000 0.8 24
246 237
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
UK 2,921,791 2,375,440 23.0 —
247 233
Seesame Communication Experts
Slovakia 2,920,680 2,647,548 10.3 25
248 n/a
Evercom
Spain 2,878,201 2,686,465 7.1 27
249 232
EON Stakeholder Relations
Philippines 2,800,000 2,740,000 2.2 —
250 230
Trevelino/Keller
USA 2,752,000 2,888,624 -4.7 17

1 – MSLGroup includes fee income from a number of group agencies, including Qorvis Communications, Publicis Consultants, Kekst, Davies, CNC, CapitalMSL and JKL.

2 – Due to the differences in how some agencies classify revenue versus fee income, BlueFocus’ fee income was incorrectly listed as $271m in the first iteration of the global ranking. This has since been corrected to $123.6m, which sees the China agency’s ranking revised downward to 16th in the Top 250 table. The corrected figure covers fee income from the firms BlueDigital operation, which includes public relations and digital marketing services, and the income from other subsidiaries of BlueFocus Communication Group is excluded. The new figure represents growth of more than 40%, compared to 2012.

3 – Finn Partners includes acquisition of Widmeyer.

4 – Dentsu fee income is estimated based on its net sales.

5 – PadillaCRT is the new agency formed by the merger of Padilla Speers Beardsley and CRT/Tanaka.

6 – ICF Mostra is the new agency formed by the acquisition of Belgium’s Mostra by US agency ICF

7 – Olson Engage was previously known as Olson PR.

8 – SEC fee income includes the acquisition of Cambre in Belgium.

9 – Threepipe’s income includes the merger of digital agency Blowfish Digital.

10 – Racepoint Global includes the integration of Digital Influence Group.
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