Former north west agency owner launches new comms and experience agency

A former award-winning north west agency owner has launched a new brand communications and experience design business.

Lee Ashton, who previously founded and ran Cheshire-based Bugler Smith, growing it from a video and live events operation into a multi-discipline agency, and worked with the likes of Pets at Home, American Golf, Vets for Pets, Booking.com and Just Eat, is now at the helm of WonderMaker, an agency that unites brand communications and experience design.

Ashton has drawn on almost 25 years working with corporate and consumer brands to launch WonderMaker, which operates across employee experiences, brand activations, launch events as well as communications strategy, internal comms and campaigns. The agency, based in Manchester city centre, is already working with a number of national brands.

He said: "Most agencies are set up to do one thing well, either they understand how to craft communications that land with an audience, or they know how to create an experience that moves people. Very few genuinely understand both, for internal and external audiences. At WonderMaker we do, because our team comes from both worlds.

"That means when a client comes to us, we're not starting from a specialism and working outward, we're starting from what they need to achieve, and we know which combination of communications and experience will actually deliver it.

"The result is work that doesn't just look good or feel good in the room, it moves people and drives action."

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Notes to editors For media enquiries, contact Lee Ashton at leeashton@wondermaker.co.uk or visit wondermaker.co.uk. WonderMaker is based at Lincoln House, Lincoln Square, Brazennose Street, Manchester, M2 5AD.