Aberdeen-based advertising agency AVC Brand has strengthened its team with the appointment of Mark Lenthall.

Mark joins the team as Advertising Sales Manager and is tasked with developing the 9-strong advertising team as well as building relationships with new clients across the North East.

With turnover set to exceed £2.5million in this financial year, AVC Brand enters the new financial year on a high, with orders of over £3 million already confirmed and an active client list topping 50, up 22% on the previous year.

“I am delighted to have joined AVC Brand at such an exciting time for the Agency, comments Mark Lenthall. We are already growing our list of clients and I am sure that we will be helping many other businesses throughout the north east and beyond to impress their customers.”

Mark joins AVC Brand following 20 years in the media and communications industry, working in London, Kent and Aberdeen for some of the UK’s key media organisations. Developing consumer, business and recruitment campaigns across print and digital media through to events and exhibitions, he has worked for a number of blue chip clients and small businesses.

Mark continues: “At AVC Brand our aim is to get the very best results for our clients through advertising and marketing, with our strength in the wealth of knowledge, experience and fully integrated communications services available at AVC Media Enterprises.”

Mark’s appointment comes as AVC Brand picks up new client, Alexander’s of Rosemount. Taking on the designer furniture store’s full advertising, design and print requirements, it is the largest in a number of new business wins for the agency.

Director of AVC Brand, Spencer Buchan comments: “It’s been a great year for AVC Brand and the appointment of Mark Lenthall will allow us to further develop and improve the service we offer our clients.

“Winning the Alexander’s account is a great achievement as it is such an established name, proving that we have the capabilities, skill and knowledge to provide our clients with something new. Combined with the full portfolio of communications services we offer at AVC, our aim is to continue to develop new techniques so that we can be the first to offer our clients industry leading ways of communicating their message.”

AVC Brand has recently been invited to join the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA), the trade body and professional institute for 284 leading agencies in the UK’s advertising, media and marketing communications industry, covering the creative, digital, direct marketing, healthcare, media, outdoor, sales promotion and sponsorship sectors.

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Aberdeen and Edinburgh – based AVC Brand Advertising finds itself one staff member down later this month as Vanessa Kennedy, Advertising Account Executive with the company heads off on a holiday with a difference.

Vanessa is jetting off to Vietnam with a group organised by Scottish children’s charity Aberlour Child Care Trust, where she will not only climb Vietnam’s highest mountain but will also help build a library, which will be used by children from the local Bin Luc orphanage.

The trip for Vanessa has been made possible with financial backing from AVC Media Enterprises and sponsorship from friends and colleagues, which has resulted in an overall donation to Aberlour of £2300.00.

Aberlour Child Care Trust works in Scotland with and for children, young people and families who need additional support, to promote their development and well being.

Vanessa comments: “I’m so grateful to everyone who has backed me with this project. It’s a once in a lifetime experience and I am sure it will be very humbling. It’s also a great opportunity to visit a beautiful country and give something back to the children at Bin Luc orphanage who face such hardship through no fault of their own.

“Not only this, by taking part in the trip we are helping children in Vietnam as well as raising funds for children back home in Scotland.”

Vanessa leaves for Hanoi, Vietnam on September 15th along with a party of 10 from across Scotland, organised by Aberlour Child Care Trust. With a workforce of over 700, the charity is currently coordinating over 44 projects throughout Scotland provides the specialist care to those children most in need.

With it’s roots lying in the Moray village of Aberlour where in 1875 Canon Charles Jupp established the Aberlour Orphanage, Aberlour has since developed flexibility to respond to the ever-changing needs of children throughout Scotland.

Aberdeen-based AVC Media Enterprises has strengthened its advertising arm, AVC Brand Advertising, opening a new facility in Edinburgh to service its growing number of clients in Lothian and the Central Belt.

AVC Advertising was formed one year ago and has already brought in more than £500,000 from a standing start. Having merged with Dundee based Precision Media six months ago the company most recently purchased Brand Advertising to form the wholly owned subsidiary of AVC Media Enterprises, AVC Brand Advertising, which is on course to turnover £3million in its first year.

With a growing client base in Edinburgh and Lothian, AVC has opened its new facility in Leith to offer a face to face service for media planning and buying as well as the associated creative requirements offered from a full service agency.

With AVC’s headquarters remaining in Aberdeen, Philippa Quinn has joined the company to develop business out with the North East and manage the company’s growing number of clients.

Philippa joins AVC from Edinburgh-based Emap, where she managed the media planning for a number of blue chip accounts including Chatham Honda/Skoda, Edinburgh Woollen Mills and Stewart Milne. Before this she spent time with Radio Forth and Scottish Radio Holdings.

Philippa comments: “I’m really looking forward to working with the team at AVC. It’s great to be involved in something completely new. AVC has so much to offer clients that I’m sure we will quickly add to the existing client base in Edinburgh and Lothian.”

Spencer Buchan, Director of AVC and AVC Brand Advertising comments: “We already have 18 clients in Edinburgh and Lothian. The natural step was to service those clients from a central location, offering client contact only a stone’s throw from their business. We’ve done a great job from our Aberdeen HQ but now we’ll be on hand permanently to offer a face to face service for our clients.”

While media planning and buying will be the lead service offered from the Edinburgh office, clients will have ready access to the wide range of corporate communication services provided by AVC.