Brass celebrates being listed as one of the UK's top 30 design agencies

Brass, the Leeds and London-based marketing agency has been listed as one of the UK's top 30 design agencies nationally by industry bible Design Week.

The report, by the design industry's leading magazine, ranks agencies by their fee income in 2010 across a range of design disciplines, such as digital and advertising as well as brand identity and print design.

Brass has emerged as one of the leading strategic and creative agencies in the UK with a host of blue chip clients such as GlaxoSmithKline, Weetabix, Freemans Grattan, UK Trade & Investment and Yorkshire Building Society.

John Morgan, chief executive of Brass, said: "Despite a tough economic climate, we have continued to post healthy results. In a rapidly changing marketing environment we are seeing that our strengths in digital design are coming to the fore with exciting work on brands such as Ribena and Seven Seas. Our insight-led approach has also seen our research arm achieve impressive growth over the last 12 months."

Brass ranked 29th in the top 100 with fee income from design based clients of nearly £4million. Brass turns over around £16million a year and employs approximately 130 staff across Leeds and London.