THE Market Link Group is Worcestershire's leading marketing consultancy and it's celebrating its best ever year.

Launched in 1981, Market Link has grown steadily, and now employs 20 people at its attractive base in Barbourne.

Last year it had a turnover of more than £2.7m and both its creative marketing and public relations companies have already seen further success this year with the acquisition of a number of new clients.

The company has clients all around the country, but locally it works alongside leading heating and hot water products manufacturer Worcester, part of the Bosch Group, as well as for Worcester-based national charity, Leukaemia CARE. It's other clients are located as far a field as Bournemouth and Doncaster.

The company has a dedicated creative design facility with a studio featuring all the latest technology. It offers a wide range of marketing services under one roof - design, advertising, direct marketing, web design, market research and database marketing.

In addition, Market Link has its own dedicated public relations consultancy which numbers among its client list The Environment Agency in the Midlands and Kidderminster-based Purac.

Market Link has recently welcomed its new new business development director Nicky Devey to its ranks, highlighting the on-going plans for growth.

"Market Link is a growing business that has been built on developing close relationships with our client base, says managing director David Pickering.

"This is reflected in the time we have been working with many of our clients - they see us as very much part of their team rather than just a supplier."