Simon Mountford Communications

Simon Mountford Communications is a strategic communications consultancy that helps organisations to construct and develop strategies for communicating with their target audiences.

The firm was founded in 1994 by Simon Mountford after he stepped down as Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.  It has since worked successfully with a wide range of leading public and private sector organisations, including Royal Armouries, the UK’s national museum of arms and armour, some of the UK’s best-known private banks (Coutts; Credit Suisse), venture capitalists (Charterhouse Development Capital; Yorkshire Enterprise) and professional services firms (DLA; Eversheds; Deloitte).

SMC has considerable specialist expertise in a number of sectors.  As well as professional services, these also include urban regeneration (Hull Citybuild; Bradford Centre Regeneration), waste management (Yorwaste; WasteCare; BCB Environmental), vehicle leasing (Lloyds TSB Autolease; Zenith Vehicle Contracts) and financial public relations (Straight plc; Surgical innovations plc; Headway plc).

We offer the following services:

  • Corporate communications
  • Business-to-business (B2B) PR
  • Crisis public relations
  • Communications audits
  • Financial PR
  • Media relations
  • Reputation management
  • Copywriting