About us

Next Fifteen Communications Group plc owns five independent subsidiary PR brands: Text 100, Bite, OutCast, Lexis and M Booth. These brands operate as autonomous businesses, which allows the Group to service competing clients. All, however, are leaders in digital public relations. The Group also owns two research businesses, Context Analytics and Redshift Research, and a policy communications business, 463 Communications.

Next Fifteen has 43 offices in 19 countries with a client list that includes many of the highest-profile international brands. The Group employs around 900 people and has become one of the world's most respected PR consultancies.

The Group has achieved this level of global coverage largely through organic growth but has in recent years supplemented that with some notable acquisitions, including Applied Communications (which was merged into Bite Communications) in the US in 2003, OutCast, also in the US, in 2005, and Lexis in the UK in 2005. In May 2007, Redshift Research was established as a further subsidiary. The Group continued to expand its presence in the consumer PR market with the acquistion of M Booth in August 2009. In October 2009, Next Fifteen acquired the Asian PR assets of Upstream Marketing and Communications Inc., which involved offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney, which have been added to the Bite business to form its APAC region. The Group remains ambitious and is committed to international expansion and intends to open more offices for existing brands, with the possibility of further acquisitions where the strategic fit and value are compelling.