Banks boost Barkers

Barkers' MD, Robert Peasnell, tells us that the business year has started well.  Following last year's achievement of a 10% increase in billings to £124m, the first quarter of 2008 has seen performance ahead of budget.  There's also good news on the new business front.  Robert told Ri5: "We're delighted with the sheer variety of some of the projects that we've been winning - internal communications, branding and attraction projects from some of the UK's top employers."  Three banks are among the names Barkers has added to its client list: the firm has won "sizeable" internal communications projects from egg, Citi and Barclays.