The Leith Agency, one of the UK’s most dynamic and successful branding and advertising organisations, has come aboard at Scotland’s most exciting architectural development, the floating offices at The Water of Leith Business Centre.
The creative agency, whose high profile clients include the Scottish Executive, Scottish Enterprise, Irn-Bru, Grolsch, Coors and Carling, has expanded from its offices on The Shore, Leith, onto Mary of Guise, the custom-built barge within the innovative Business Centre.
The arrival of the Leith Agency illustrates the intense interest with which the creative industries are viewing Leith, whose ongoing waterside regeneration has been one of Scotland’s great success stories.
Major international creative consultancy agency Omnia, which operates in London, the Channel Islands, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, is moving onto the Water of Leith 2000’s latest office, the architecturally spectacular Barge 1502, and the Mary of Guise’s sister barge, La Belle Esperance, is occupied by branding specialists Three Brand Design.
Richard Marsham, managing partner at the Leith Agency, said: “The floating offices, and the intelligent and innovative way they have been fitted out, make the Water of Leith, quite simply, a special place.
“Our creative teams are really excited about the space they will work in. The whole area is inspiring and to be able to work floating in the middle of it is an opportunity which is too good to miss.
“We have made quite a considerable investment in the Mary of Guise and she will become our showpiece hub, not only for internal meetings and board meetings, but for entertaining our international portfolio of clients. I am quite sure they will be as impressed as we are.”
Ron Kitchin, managing director of Water of Leith 2000, said: “The Leith Agency is recognised across the UK and beyond as one of the most innovative and forward thinking agencies in the business.
“We are delighted to welcome them to The Water of Leith Business Centre and we are confident that they will become one of the cornerstones of the development which we see as ensuring the sustainable regeneration of Leith.” | 