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Top 25 Category design consultancies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 2,085 category design consultancies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 9,651 professional contacts across them, including 3,184 with verified work emails and 815 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.

This list covers category design consultancies headquartered in the 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 11, 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 11, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
2,085Companies
9,651Contacts tracked
3,184Verified emails
815Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest category design consultancies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 2,085 category design consultancies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 11, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to category 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
1Indirect evidenceWoking, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 20261,001-5,000266 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Your partners in retail strategy and execution.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
2Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-200203 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Elmwood is a globally recognised, award-winning strategic brand design consultancy that builds brands with intent.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
3Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-200183 contacts →

Partial evidence

“MCM is a creative consultancy of architects, designers, workplace strategists and behavioural change experts.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
4Indirect evidenceBelfast, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-200133 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Portview is a specialist interior fit-out consultancy, partnering with discerning brands and organisations in the UK and Ireland to deliver exceptional spaces and experiences.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
5Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 2026201-500111 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Founded in 1957 by Sir Terence Conran, we’re Havas’ brand and design consultancy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
6Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-200102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“PriestmanGoode is an industrial design consultancy that delivers exceptional brand experiences for a roster of leading international companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
7Indirect evidenceWest End, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-20097 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We’re specialists, not generalists We built our business by bringing together different specialists – strategists, creatives, makers, technologists and more.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
8Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-20088 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At All About Food, our core mission is to make restaurant and coffee shop brands successful in retail.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
9Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5085 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Heavenly is a global, independent creative consultancy, founded in 2003.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
10Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-20070 contacts →

Partial evidence

“LXA was born from a desire to do things differently.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
11Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-20069 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“A brand consultancy, specialising in clever answers to challenging questions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
12Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5068 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We’re international brand, design and marketing consultants that have spent the three decades helping help brave decision makers start, transform and grow highly successful…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
13Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-20055 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Tricon is the leading foodservice design and management consultancy across the EMEA region; working in partnership with international companies across all market sectors.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
14Partial evidenceLutterworth, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-20054 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are the Retail Design Agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
15Partial evidenceShoreditch, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202651-20054 contacts →

Partial evidence

Design consultancy specialising in brand strategy, CX and digital innovation for timeless brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
16Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5053 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Average is easy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
17Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5050 contacts →

Partial evidence

“BBL/P Builds desire for the world's most aspirational brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
18Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5049 contacts →

Partial evidence

Designhouse is where strategy takes shape.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
19Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5048 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Whippet is an independent design agency specialising in retail and brand transformation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
20Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5047 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Jordan is a boutique design studio specialising in premium and luxury brands within global travel retail (GTR).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
21Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5047 contacts →

Partial evidence

“LAYER is a thought-leading design studio working across strategy, industrial design, engineering, branding, digital, and spatial design.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
22Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5042 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We partner with brands to maximise opportunities through design.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
23Strong evidenceTring, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5042 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are an international retail planning and design consultancy that offers research, category management and shopfitting based on 20 years of researching the how and why people…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
24Indirect evidenceWarwick, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5040 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Hot thinking.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026
25Indirect evidenceReading, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 11, 202611-5038 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We empower our clients to gain a competitive edge through business growth, personal development, and enhanced customer collaboration.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 11, 2026

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Category design consultancies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 11, 2026
33.0%Verified-email coverage
8.4%Mobile-number coverage
4.6Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
43.5%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 11, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
1,781
11-50
267
51-200
25
201-500
3
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
4

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails were verified and the company information checked

Email last verified

Median 13.0d

Company record updated

Median 75.0d

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 category 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “category 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 category 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 category design consultancies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 3,184 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 11, 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 category 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 category design consultancies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 2,085 category design consultancies headquartered in the 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?

Acosta Europe, headquartered in Woking, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most category design consultancies?

London leads with 906 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (56) and Leeds (37).

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 3,184 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,085 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 11, 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.