Unsworth Sugden Group

A quick look at what’s been happening at a couple of Barratt Northampton’s developments…
Down at the Stratford Park development in Milton Keynes, the Sales team have helped residents take away some of the stress of introducing themselves to their neighbours by hosting a dedicated event to welcome new homebuyers to the growing community.
Resident, Harry Gasiorski, [...]

Today, I joined my fellow Barratt Graduate’s in spending time with Unsworth Sugden to gain an insight into their day-to-day work and to understand more about their business and the services they can offer their clients.
As a Graduate at Barratt Northampton, I’d previously been involved in Unsworth Sugden’s work when they produced a press release [...]

Unsworth Sugden has a fantastic reputation of allowing students and young people to come and do some work experience with them, to see if the metaphorical PR shoe fits. I certainly know this to be true; I was fortunate enough to be able to come and do a week’s work experience with USG last July.

In [...]

May’s Pic of the Month is the opening of The Toybox nursery at The Fairways David Wilson Homes development in Bedford. Launched in early April, the £650,000 facility can cater for up to 73 children up to the age of five years old.

The nursery in Biddenham Vale will employ around 20 local staff and [...]

The few days I spent with Unsworth Sugden have definitely given me a valuable insight into the workings of a PR team, while also getting to understand what the other areas of the business do too. From advertising to digital media, I had no knowledge before I walked through the door.
I am currently working at [...]

Yesterday, 22nd of May saw the release of the anticipated algorithm update Penguin 2.0. This is not just a refresh, but an update to the Penguin algorithm. It had been referred to internally as Penguin 2.0 and has now been officially launched and rolled out across all languages

Much time has passed now since the Panda and Penguin updates that were responsible for a shake-up in the SEO industry. When trying to optimise a website, we have been forced to think about what we are doing much more carefully. Gone are the days of building exact match links, use of online directories and [...]

Latest research from Socialbakers shows Facebook has lost two million users in the UK in the last six months, a trend which is being replicated all over the world suggesting that users are becoming bored of what was once perceived as the darling of the social media world.
However, the same study also found that 60% [...]

The big advertising news this week was the Internet Advertising Bureau’s latest report, showing digital advertising spend in the UK was up to almost £5.5 billion in 2012.

February’s PR pic of the month comes once again from photographer Toby Savage.  It depicts Safety Bill, the new site safety mascot for client Barratt Homes.
Here’s Bill at Barratt’s Marston Park development in Marston Moretaine near Bedford with pupils from Church End Lower School. Toby captured some great shots, but all credit goes to the [...]