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Star Platforms is an exciting new powered access company that wanted to make a bold entrance to the plant hire world.The company, based in Hertfordshire, wanted a strong, instantly-recognisable brand to help them establish their profile in a highly competitive market.Star Platforms’ management team turned to matm, which has a great deal of experience in the plant hire market, to create its brand identity.

Your Brand MattersThe idea of the brand is central to marketing, That is why many of our clients ask us to work with them to get their branding right.Most of us use the term ‘brand’ in everyday conversation.But it can be misdefined. Many companies also find it difficult to pin down the nuts and bolts of their own brands

Here at matm we like creativity in all its forms - and the wintery weather has revealed a snow

Here's a recent example of a new logo we created for a Shropshire company, MultiPlotMultPlot are

I was interested by this article on the BBC website pointing out that apologies aimed at customers following the horsemeat scandal looks very much like poetry, of the Shakespearian kind.

Lanes for Drains got to the bottom of persistent flooding at one of the UK’s largest cement works – and saved the company tens of thousands of pounds it expected to have to spend to cure the problem.Lanes engineers based in Sheffield were called in to investigate the flooding of a railway track on the site of the Hope Valley cement works near Castleton, South Yorkshire.

Want to get a story published about a workshop to learn about risk assessments? Not the most catchy

I'm in the middle of reading Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, the book upon which Steven

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, if it is taken properly. With the latest digital

Here's a press release we prepared for Shropshire construction company Cornbrook Construction about a tie-up with another Shropshire firm Quad-Lock. It was used as the business supplement lead by the Shropshire Star and several other publications.Part of its appeal, I think, is the strong picture. Strong news media photography always helps when pitching a news story. I took the picture myself, saving the client the significant cost of hiring a dedicated photographer. Another benefit of PR from matm!

Private landlords face “double whammy” say property expertsProperty experts are holding a special seminar for private residential landlords in Shropshire to inform them that they face a “double whammy” from new Government legislation.

We were delighted when one of Shropshire's leading coach companies, Elcock Reisen, commissioned matm to come up with a new creative brochure design for their 2013 excursion season.Creative brochure design is all about creating an instant impact in a promotional document that is highly practical and easy to use.

It's really nice when someone says they like what you do. It's even better when that someone is a client.Matt Breakwell at Cornbrook Construction has kindly provided us with a testimonial for the public relations support matm is providing.

It must be a sign of winter when we're delivering Woollen Beanie hats for our clientsKeeping our

The whole row about what the three Police Federation officers said when they came out of a meeting with the then Government minister Andrew Mitchell illustrates the benefit of having access to good PR advice before speaking to the press.