On The Up PR is targeting up-and-coming businesses across the region, according to founder Rob Stewart
Rob Stewart, launching his own Bristol based PR agency(Image: Andrew Higgins/Thousand Word Media Ltd)
A former national newspaper journalist has launched a public relations agency in Bristol for up-and-coming businesses. On The Up PR has been set up by ex-Daily Telegraph journo Rob Stewart and is aimed at SMEs across the South West business community.
The company will build on his experience working in regional and national media, he said, as well as a decade in charity communications with the Alzheimer’s Society and five years with local PR agencies.
“The South West is a real hotbed of entrepreneurial activity and that has inspired me to launch On The Up PR,” said Mr Stewart.
“I know from experience there are lots of amazing stories waiting to be told by the business leaders who are driving forward the region’s start-ups, scale-ups and more established companies.
“And I’m really looking forward to working with those firms which are committed to using media activity as a vehicle for growth – sometimes for the first time.”
Mr Stewart, who is based in the Westbury Park area of Bristol, says he has been “on a steep learning curve” since moving away from full-time journalism but counts himself “lucky to have worked for some brilliant PR people in the South West and to have achieved what are regarded as amazing results for clients”.
“That success is down to the combination of my core journalistic skills and commercial PR know-how which means I’m now ideally positioned to help companies of all shapes and sizes share their stories to gain meaningful impact,” he added.
Mr Stewart has already secured customers including Enable Law, a South West-based medical negligence and personal injury law firm, and Bristol-based Burleigh Create design agency, while also helping launch a new pickleball enterprise in Surrey.