GolinHarris

While Golin Harris fell short of its double-digit growth rate of the past three years, it ended 2009 the same size as it began it, and grew its bottom line, year-on-year, by what it describes as a significant percentage.

In autumn 2009, the agency launched The Gold Standard, its formalised approach to client service, which received an Iron SABRE Certificate of Excellence for Employee Programmes.

The agency continues to be dominated by its US business: its three biggest clients are The Dow Chemical Company, McDonald’s Corporation, and Nintendo of America.

It did continue to develop its global offering, with ten offices in EMEA and the opening of a Seoul office taking its APAC tally to eight. It also picked up PR Consultancy of the Year 2009 in the Asia Pacific PR Awards, just one of the 75 industry awards it won in 2009. 2010 started off in a similar vein when GolinHarris was named PRWeek US’s Large PR Agency of the Year.