Fifth Ring Integrated Corporate Communications is looking forward to year of sustained growth in the next 12 months after it revealed it had secured contract wins in 2009 totalling over £1 million.

The wins were achieved across all areas of the business, including brand and strategy development, design, digital media, advertising and public relations. The firm, which specialises in business to business sector, employs more than 70 people and now works with over 30 energy companies through its offices, in Aberdeen, Inverness, Dubai and Houston.

In its UK offices, new business value exceeded £700,000, much of it achieved with new clients including prestigious organisations operating internationally and regionally including oil majors and leading international service companies including GE Oil and Gas and Tendeka.

The company’s Dubai office achieved significant new business worth more than £200,000 in the oil and gas and consumer sectors. Fashion firm Landmark International has taken on Fifth Ring to promote its fashion brands New Look, Reiss, Koton and Aftershock in the Middle East and North Africa. Fifth Ring in Dubai also secured a six-figure contract with dmg world media for three of the Middle East’s largest trade exhibitions INDEX, The Big 5 and The Office Exhibition.

Fifth Ring, which has been operating in the Middle East since 2004, specialises within the energy, property and construction, education, leisure and professional services sectors, and have been working with dmg on two of its international energy exhibitions: ADIPEC and Gastech, since 2008.

Fifth Ring’s Houston operation, which enjoyed its first full year in business in 2009 has already generated almost £400,000 since opening in August 2008 and has seen the company win significant business with US clients including a major international exploration and production company, GE Oil and Gas and Expro.

Fifth Ring’s business development director, Ian Ord, said: “Many of our new business wins have been as a direct result of the international offering we can deliver to our clients. In an era of unprecedented turmoil in the world economy it is greatly encouraging to have secured an impressive level of new business. This has been won thanks to a great deal of hard work from our teams around the world and augurs well for the business in 2010.

“When Fifth Ring set out to establish our offices in the world’s main energy centres our focus was on increasing market share in the energy sector and increasingly businesses are channelling their corporate communications challenges to us because they recognise the benefits of the integrated approach in different geographies.”

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