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The Brief

Specialised Cleaning Services (SCS) is a family business located in Preston, Lancashire. They are a specialist cleaning business with clients across the North of the UK, with ambitions to extend their reach to encompass the whole of the country.

The brief was initially to build awareness of the SCS offering to North West Housing Associations and businesses via trade press and local media, to implement a plan of awards to enter and more recently to develop a strategic content marketing plan to sit alongside the launch of the new SCS website and to set them apart from their competitors.

The Work

KRPR regularly placed ‘expert’ editorial pieces on behalf of Specialised Cleaning Services in trade publications, local newspapers and radio stations.

We placed owner, Sarah Southworth’s inspirational business story across national press, women’s general interest press, local radio and local press and successfully established Sarah as the go-to specialist cleaning expert and an inspirational entrepreneur.

KRPR carried out a successful integrated communications strategy to leverage the business’ combined specialist cleaning expertise across key trade publications, conducted a rolling media relations plan and entered trade and local business awards on behalf of SCS and Sarah Southworth.

A content marketing strategy was created and implemented, incorporating website content and SEO writing strategy, an ongoing e-marketing campaign, blogger outreach, and social media planning and execution.

Working closely with the SCS management team we established the SCS CSR agenda with a variety of local creative campaigns within the community that the business operates in.

The Results

113

press pieces generated.

2015

UK's best specialised cleaning company award, alongside numerous other industry and business awards.

5

million total reach.

During the time that KRPR has worked with SCS, the business has more than doubled in size; increasing YOY profit, re-branded, moved premises to hold the expanding workforce and has extended its reach to work across the UK from its Lancashire base.

KRPR has achieved 113 pieces of press coverage across national, local and trade press and radio with a reach of over 5 million, including national press The Sun and The Telegraph, women’s magazines including Essentials and Closer, trade publications including Housing Association Magazine, The European Cleaning Journal and Tomorrow’s Cleaning and numerous pieces of coverage  in regional press including the Lancashire Evening Post, Lancashire Telegraph, plus regular appearances on BBC Radio Lancashire and BBC Radio Manchester.

SCS has won three business awards, been shortlisted for four awards locally, and in 2015 won the award for the UK’s best specialised cleaning company at the Kimberley Clarke National Golden Service awards.

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