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Top 25 Brand strategy design consultancies based in Manchester, United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 227 brand strategy design consultancies headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,393 professional contacts across them, including 538 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers brand strategy design consultancies headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 23, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 23, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
227Companies
2,393Contacts tracked
538Verified emails
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The 25 largest brand strategy design consultancies based in Manchester, United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 227 brand strategy design consultancies based in Manchester, United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 23, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to brand strategy design consultancies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202651-200303 contacts →

Strong evidence

“MCR > NYC > BEYOND Based in Manchester and New York, we’re the design agency you hire when your brand is looking to be brave, beautiful, storied and loved.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
2Strong evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026201-500289 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Equator, a division of Marks and part of the Propelis Group, is a global packaging design agency, delivering strategy to shelf without compromise.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
3Strong evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 2026n/a86 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Only is an award-winning brand strategy and design agency helping organisations to use design to innovate and grow.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
4Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5044 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We help brands win the fight for relevance.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
5Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5033 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Incognito is an exciting new interior design and branding studio that is delivering high profile projects for global occupiers and funds on both a national and international scale.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
6Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5027 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Ultimate is an award-winning creative design and digital agency that specialises in delivering human-first experiences.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
7Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5023 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Epigram is a specialist creative agency for the legal and professional services sectors.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
8Strong evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5018 contacts →

Strong evidence

“True North is an independent brand and design agency based in Manchester.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
9Strong evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5015 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are a strategy-first marketing agency for construction and industrial brands, delivering business growth through our philosophy of Grounded Truth™ Our services are designed to…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
10Strong evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5015 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are a global brand and experience consultancy empowering ambitious businesses to grow through strategic clarity, innovative design and measurable performance outcomes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
11Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 20261-1015 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We're BGN, a branding and digital agency that work with you to maximise your potential across all platforms.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
12Strong evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5013 contacts →

Strong evidence

“AHOY is an integrated branding agency offering brand strategy, e-commerce and digital marketing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
13Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 20261-1012 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Our mission is to unlock the creativity inside your business as we transform you into a video first brand.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
14Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5012 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Helping ambitious businesses cut through the noise with sharp strategy, standout creative and consistent delivery.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
15Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5012 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Bert is an award winning, independently owned branding agency with studios in London and Manchester, where we were recently named ‘best branding agency’.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
16Strong evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 20261-1011 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Club is a design studio-delivering brand strategy and marketing websites that help professional service businesses achieve brand clarity and attract right-fit customers and team…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
17Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Rise and Outshine.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
18Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-507 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Advertising, Digital and Branding agency based in Manchester that delivers seriously creative results.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
19Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-507 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
20Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 20261-107 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Exceptional branding and design services delivered through our dual service approach - choose fixed-cost subscriptions or standalone adhoc projects, covering everything from…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
21Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202651-2007 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Cheetham Bell is a creative, advertising & design agency born in Manchester.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
22Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 20261-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Ordinary doesn’t change things.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
23Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 202611-506 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are a full service digital, marketing, PR and design agency based in Manchester city centre.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
24Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 20261-106 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Designs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026
25Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 23, 20261-105 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Planning Department is a new kind of strategy agency that lets you access a world-class planning department as and when you need it.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026

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Brand strategy design consultancies based in Manchester, United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 23, 2026
22.5%Verified-email coverage
10.5Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
1194.7%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 23, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
193
11-50
29
51-200
4
201-500
1

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United Kingdom list rather than for Manchester, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Manchester, over 227 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among brand strategy design consultancies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “brand strategy design consultancies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names brand strategy design consultancies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among brand strategy design consultancies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Manchester are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 538 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 23, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names brand strategy design consultancies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many brand strategy design consultancies are there based in Manchester, United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 227 brand strategy design consultancies headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

LOVE, headquartered in Manchester, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most brand strategy design consultancies?

London leads with 2712 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (227) and Leeds (139).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 538 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 227 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 23, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.