OUR HERITAGE

Citypress was founded in 1961 as the first PR agency outside of London.

Our business traces its heritage back to 1895, when former cotton mill worker William Tattersall quit his post as general secretary of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations. He went on to set up his own business in Manchester, publishing textile reports and supplying industrial news to newspapers and trade publications.

During the 1940s, the company expanded its financial reporting activities and became the first organisation outside London to supply news to the Financial News, the forerunner of today's Financial Times. It also evolved into a general news reporting agency supplying national wire services, newspapers and radio.

By the late seventies, its PR agency subsidiary 'Citypress Services Limited' had grown into the main trading company. Over the next four decades the company became one of Manchester's leading PR agencies, successfully capitalising on its journalistic pedigree to create award-winning media-led campaigns for its clients.

In 2007, we opened a second office in London to service some of our London-based client relationships.

In 2008, we were voted the number one agency in the North West based on our reputation for quality.