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About Portland

In less than a decade, Portland has earned a big reputation for the high quality of its work, staff and results. 

We provide communications and public affairs advice and support to six of the world’s top 20 brands as well as some of the planet’s highest-profile individuals.

Set up in 2001 by Tim Allan, a former senior advisor to Tony Blair and Director of Communications at BSkyB , Portland has grown from four staff to over 50 with offices in London, Nairobi and New York.

We have a team recruited from the highest levels of the media, including George Pascoe-Watson, the former political editor of the Sun, politics and government with five former Downing Street staffers. Portland offers the energy, agility and client focus of an independent consultancy with the capacity and international reach to deliver.

We are straight up and honest in our dealings – with our clients and with each other. We tell it like it is...

Our outlook is international – like our clients and our team. Every day we work across the boundaries of time zone, border, medium and language...

We like clear thinking, problem-solving and originality. We’re not afraid to challenge our clients. We have a point of view...

Strategy is vital. But it’s worth nothing without action and results...

We can’t bear people who talk and don’t do. When we say we’re going to do something, we do it...

We love modernity. We love how things change. We don’t think things were better years ago. We always focus on the future...

Our clients’ problems are our problems. Their goals are our goals. Our job is to add real value to their work...

Influencing today’s decision-makers requires a campaign-focused approach, not old-school lobbying...

We are ambitious for ourselves and for our clients. We aim high as a company – and we can only get there by helping our clients win...

We don’t believe in the traditional divide between communications and public affairs work. We bring together the right strategy with the best team for every task...

We never stop asking how we can do things differently and better. We always aim to innovate, provoke and surprise...

The communications business is changing. Access counts for less. Ideas count for more.