Rock Kitchen Harris

What Rock Kitchen Harris does

Rock Kitchen Harris (legal entity: Rock Kitchen Harris Limited, Company No. 01589727) is a full-service creative agency headquartered at 23-25 Friar Lane, Leicester, operating as a 100% employee-owned business since transitioning to that model in 2025. Founded in 1982, the firm employs 51–100 staff across a fully remote UK footprint and delivers six integrated service pillars: Advertising, Design & Creative, Digital, Digital Marketing, Public Relations, and Strategy & Planning. Revenue is generated through competitive pitches, multi-year retainers (e.g., Highcross as retained lead creative agency, British Gypsum as lead marketing and communications agency since 2021) and project-based fees across consumer, B2B, public-sector and third-sector clients.

The agency's technical capability spans open-source CMS and e-commerce platforms — Wagtail/Django/Python for GDS-compliant NHS builds, WordPress for education and charity websites, Shopify for direct-to-consumer brands — supported by Docker/Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure, bespoke Okta identity management, custom Python warehouse tooling, and integrations with HubSpot, Basecamp, Eventbrite, SEMrush, Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. Differentiated work includes a five-site WordPress build for Loughborough Schools Foundation removing identifiable pupil imagery (described as a first-of-its-kind UK digital safeguarding solution), a unified search function across the merged NHS England/Improvement sites, and bespoke identity management interfaces for NHS staff.

The business model is professional-services based: quote-based, non-publicly-disclosed pricing, won through competitive pitching (NHS England, Highcross) and developed into retainers or long-running engagements (Topps Tiles 5+ years, NSBRC 6+ years). GTM is sales-led and relationship-driven, supported by an active inbound content engine (blog, 'Hummingbird' newsletter, organic social). No public revenue, funding rounds, M&A, or geographic expansion beyond the UK are disclosed; the agency holds Cyber Essentials Plus, Disability Confident, CIPR, APG, MRS and Google Partner accreditations.

Name

Rock Kitchen Harris

Legal name

Rock Kitchen Harris Limited

Website

https://rkh.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Rock Kitchen Harris is a 100% employee-owned, full-service creative agency based in Leicester, UK, delivering advertising, design, digital, digital marketing, PR and strategy services to UK enterprise, public-sector and mid-market clients since 1982.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Leicester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Agency creative & marketing services: RKH operates as a full-service creative agency delivering Advertising, Design & Creative, Digital, Digital Marketing, Public Relations, and Strategy & Planning services to clients across the UK. Revenue is generated through client retainers (e.g., Highcross as retained lead creative agency), project-based fees (photoshoots, TV ad campaigns, website builds, prospectus design), and campaign execution contracts (e.g., British Gypsum FastSet launch). Multi-year relationships are common (Topps Tiles 5+ years; NSBRC 6+ years).
2. Specialist digital build & development: Project-based revenue from bespoke web/app development, CMS migrations (Wagtail, WordPress, Shopify), identity management solutions, and integration work (e.g., NHS Improvement Okta/Azure, Brookbanks new website, Ozone Coffee Shopify instances). Usually delivered as fixed-scope or time-and-materials projects.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Rock Kitchen Harris is a full-service creative agency delivering integrated marketing communications across six pillars: Advertising (TV, print, radio, POS, OOH), Design & Creative (brand identity, artwork, brochure), Digital (bespoke websites, CMS builds on Wagtail/WordPress/Shopify, mobile-first design, platform integrations), Digital Marketing (PPC, SEO, social, email/CRM, content marketing), Public Relations (media relations, thought leadership, awards entries, influencer engagement), and Strategy & Planning (discovery research, audience insights, brand positioning, campaign planning). Services are sold directly to UK businesses on a project, retainer or pitch-based engagement model and are supported by sub-services including photography and video, copywriting, content design, and bespoke development.

Product overview

Rock Kitchen Harris is a full-service creative agency offering an integrated portfolio of marketing services organised around six core service pillars - Advertising, Design & Creative, Digital, Digital Marketing, Public Relations, and Strategy & Planning - which are operationalised through a deeper set of sub-services including Photography & Video, Web Development, PPC, SEO, Social Media, Email and CRM Marketing, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Development (Wagtail/WordPress/Shopify), Discovery, Content Design and Brand & Creative. The Digital pillar encompasses bespoke web development and CMS work (using Wagtail/Django, WordPress and Shopify), while the Digital Marketing pillar bundles paid media, SEO, social, email and content services. Clients typically engage RKH as a retained lead creative and marketing partner across campaigns spanning research-led strategy, creative concept development, multi-channel campaign activation, photography and video production, and ongoing performance measurement, with the agency now operating as a 100% employee-owned business serving clients such as British Gypsum, Topps Tiles, Vision Express, Highcross, NSBRC and NHS England.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Advertising Creative advertising services including TV adverts, print campaigns, point-of-sale design, brochure creation, radio campaigns (e.g., TalkSport), outdoor advertising and national advertising campaigns for enterprise clients such as Topps Tiles, Twycross Zoo, British Gypsum and Vision Express.
• Design & Creative Design and creative services covering brand identity, rebrands, creative artwork, design for digital and physical media, point-of-sale artwork and campaign creative for clients such as Vision Express, Bambino Mio and Cambridge & Counties Bank.
• Digital Digital service offering covering bespoke website builds, mobile-first design, CMS implementation across Wagtail (Django/Python), WordPress and Shopify, platform integration work, bespoke back-office tools and GDS-compliant public-sector delivery for clients including NHS England, NHS Improvement, CML, Ozone Coffee, Brookbanks and Hasbean.
• Digital Marketing Digital marketing services bundling PPC, SEO, social media marketing, email and CRM marketing (including HubSpot lead nurture), content marketing and paid media strategy across Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn for clients such as British Gypsum, NSBRC, Highcross and Watches of Switzerland.
• Public Relations PR services including media relations, thought leadership, press releases, awards entries, influencer engagement and social media amplification for B2B brand clients such as British Gypsum, Samsic UK, Taylor Wimpey and Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.
• Strategy & Planning Strategy and planning services including discovery research, stakeholder interviews, audience insights, customer value proposition mapping, campaign strategy and brand positioning work underpinning engagements for clients such as Bambino Mio, Topps Tiles and Climate Compatible Growth.

Quantifiable outcome

• British Gypsum FastSet campaign drove 1,633,882 impressions, 13,555 social link clicks and 2,941 paid Google clicks (Wx9)
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers34 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Bray Leino: UK-based independent full-service creative and media agency of similar mid-market size, offering advertising, digital, PR and brand strategy to enterprise clients — the closest like-for-like independent peer to RKH.
• Manifest London: Independent UK full-service creative agency delivering advertising, design, digital, content and PR services to mid-market and enterprise clients — a like-for-like independent competitor for RKH's core service mix.
• The&Partnership: UK-headquartered full-service creative and media agency operating a hybrid agency model, comparable in service breadth (creative, digital, PR, strategy) and client mix.
• Dept Agency: European digital-first creative and engineering agency combining marketing, creative and technology services — the closest scaled analogue to RKH's hybrid creative-plus-build model, particularly in CMS and web/app development.
• Krow Communications: Independent UK full-service creative agency offering advertising, design, digital and PR services to mid-market and enterprise clients, competing head-to-head with RKH on UK pitch processes.
• Croud (formerly Stickyeyes): UK-headquartered digital marketing and creative agency offering SEO, PPC, content, paid media and creative services to enterprise clients — a close peer on the digital marketing and SEO capabilities RKH delivers.
• Iris Worldwide: Global creative agency network with strong UK presence offering integrated advertising, digital, PR and strategy services to enterprise clients across similar verticals (retail, FMCG, financial services).

Broad incumbents

• WPP: World's largest advertising holding company operating multiple creative agency brands (Ogilvy, VMLY&R, Grey) that compete with RKH on enterprise pitches, particularly with global clients like Kellogg's.
• Publicis Groupe: Global communications holding company with a UK creative agency portfolio (Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett) competing for the same enterprise brand, digital and PR mandates that RKH pursues.
• Havas UK: Global advertising and communications group with a significant UK creative and media agency presence competing directly with RKH in integrated brand, digital and PR work for mid-market and enterprise clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/rkhleicester
• Facebooken-gb.facebook.com/RKHLeicester
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rock-kitchen-harris
• Instagraminstagram.com/rkhleicester/?hl=en

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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