Notwithstanding the continued erosion of its client numbers, Weber Shandwick/Square Mile continues to top the rankings of financial PR advisers with the largest list of quoted clients. However, Weber's net loss of seventeen stockmarket company clients places it just three ahead of this quarter's runner-up, Buchanan Communications. Buchanan's nicely-placed to challenge for the top position next quarter, though with Financial Dynamics just two further clients back in third place, the challenge might well come from this quarter. The gap between the top three and the rest of the table is as wide as ever, with no other firm able to boast a list of quoted companies in three figures.

Brunswick tops the other 'size' table, the rankings of financial PR advisers by clients making the most profit, knocking last quarter's number one, Financial Dynamics, back into second place. Weber Shandwick/Square Mile holds onto third place.

Two of the big three dominating the 'size' tables, however, experience sharply diverging fortunes in the two 'growth' rankings. Weber Shandwick climbs four places in the rankings of advisers by fastest growing clients to claim fifth place ­ easily the biggest improvement in the table as a whole. Lansons Communications retains top slot, ahead of Binns & Co and Hudson Sandler. Brunswick, by contrast, falls three places to eighth.

And there's worse to come for Brunswick. In the rankings of firms by clients with the fastest increasing earnings Brunswick drops six places to ninth. The ever-consistent Lanson holds onto top slot, ahead of Binns & Co. Hudson Sandler moves up a place to third.


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