A growing digital marketing agency is celebrating a milestone two decades in business.
ExtraMile Communications has been helping clients of all sizes with their communication strategies since its formation in 2000.
The company began life in Surrey as SurveyDigital, when its founders Gabrielle Hadley and Nick Evans came up with the idea of an agency to undertake online questionnaires and surveys.
The success of the survey business led to the introduction of new services such as email marketing that worked in numerous different languages across Europe and the Middle East.
In 2002, the business relocated to Staffordshire, took on its first employee and, not long after, moved into its first office in Eccleshall - relocating to a larger, neighbouring premises in 2012.
Today the business is based at its current premises - at 3,000 square foot office at Kern House on Stone Business Park in Staffordshire - which houses its 23-strong team who deliver services including search engine marketing, web design and development, graphic design and quality services.
The company works with multinational clients - in more than 30 languages - in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as the US and Asia markets.
It also has office space in Dunstan's Hill, London, which helps to better service its customers in the south.
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Bosses at ExtraMile attribute the company's success to the hard work and quality of its staff.
Company chairman Nick Evans said: "Our team appreciates that they are a high priority from the directors' point of view. There is no better encouragement for employees to know that they are vital to the company's success."
In February 2019, James Roberts and Amanda Brookes became directors at ExtraMile Communications - which has attained Investors in People Gold - after many years of working for the company.
Managing director Gabrielle Hadley said: "It’s been a roller-coaster. The highs have been very high but the lows can be terrifying. Anyone going into business has my deepest respect.
She added: "But it is exciting, exhausting and so rewarding, all at once. And we have the team in place to take us to our ambitious targets for the next year."