Client
Numbers Continue to Dwindle
The first table lists financial
PR advisers by their numbers of stock market clients.
Buchanan Communications retains its first place, with
109 clients this quarter as in November. Runner-up is
Financial Dynamics again, although at 105 it has lost
two clients since last time. Seven firms have fewer clients
than they had in the pervious quarter, the most significant
loss being that of Weber Shandwick / Square Mile which
has fallen from 77 to 67, though remaining in third place.
Three firms have gained clients - Bankside Consultants
is up four to 56, Tavistock Communications is up three
to 40 and Hudson Sandler has gained two clients and now
has 43.
Clients making the most pre tax
profit are the basis of the second 'size' table. Brunswick
remains in the lead, but with a figure reduced from £10388.5m
in November to £9958.2m. Second is College Hill Associates
with £868.4m, well up on its previous result of £693.4m:
it has swapped places with Hudson Sandler, now in third
place with £716.7m (£749.4m in November). Five firms out
of the ten show improved figures. The heaviest fall is
that of Buchanan Communications, down from £188.5m to
£123.5m.
Table number three is the first
'growth' table and is concerned with the average increase
in clients' pre tax profits. College Hill has moved up
one place to the top of the table, with a figure of 19.1%,
while last quarter's leader, Weber Shandwick/Square Mile,
has fallen three places, with a figure down from 11% to
10.4%. Also travelling downwards is Hudson Sandler from
fourth place in November to ninth and from 5% to -2%.
Eight out of the ten firms show positive figures, the
same proportion as last quarter.
The
second growth table lists the PR firms by clients with
the fastest increasing earnings. College Hill Associates,
with 21.5%, well up on last quarter's figure of 13.7%,
is in the lead, having ousted Tavistock Communications,
with 17.7%, from its November position at the head of
the list. The biggest move upwards is that of Citigate
Dewe Rogerson which has jumped from eighth place to fourth
and from 0.3% to 11.0%. Eight of the ten firms have positive
figures, one fewer than last time.
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