What Wray Ward does

Wray Ward is a privately held, full-service creative marketing agency headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, founded in 1977 and operating as Wray Ward, LLC. The firm exclusively serves consumer and trade brands in the home and building category — including building materials, HVAC, lighting, insulation, garage doors, furniture, engineered wood, audio technology, and adjacent home improvement sub-verticals. The agency's named client roster spans VELUX, Carrier, Sonos, Rockwool, GE Appliances, Floor & Decor, GE Lighting, Huber Engineered Woods, Pinehurst Resort, Mastic/Cornerstone Building Brands, Dutch Quality Stone, American Drew/La-Z-Boy, Echota, and Clopay.

The service offering is delivered as professional services across brand strategy, creative campaign development, social media and influencer programs, digital experience/website development, trade show strategy and activation, paid media, brand identity, and email/nurture marketing. The go-to-market is sales-led and B2B, leveraging thought leadership content (industry articles, NAHB/Zonda forecasts, Design & Construction Week coverage), major industry event participation, and direct enterprise engagement. Revenue is generated through project-based, retainer, and ongoing partnership engagements with enterprise clients primarily in North America; no pricing, public rate cards, or revenue figures are disclosed. There is no proprietary technology platform, API, or AI/ML product referenced — Wray Ward is a services business rather than a software product company. No external funding, parent company, M&A activity, or subsidiaries are indicated.

Name

Wray Ward

Legal name

Wray Ward, LLC

Website

https://wrayward.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Wray Ward is a privately held, full-service creative marketing agency in Charlotte, NC that exclusively serves enterprise consumer and trade brands in the home and building category with brand strategy, creative campaigns, social media, paid media, and trade show activation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Marketing and Advertising Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (541810), Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418), Advertising Agencies (54181)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro primary industry

B2B Demand Generation & Lead Nurture Agencies (BPAFAKAA)

Keywords

• Creative marketing agency
• Brand strategy services
• Home and building marketing
• Trade marketing agency
• Integrated marketing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Charlotte

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Marketing and Advertising Services: Wray Ward generates revenue by providing comprehensive marketing services to home and building brands. Services include brand strategy, creative campaigns, social media management, trade show marketing, content development, digital advertising, and public relations. As a B2B agency, they work on project-based, retainer, or ongoing engagement models with enterprise clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Wray Ward is a full-service creative marketing agency that develops brand strategy, creative campaigns, social media communities, digital experiences, trade show activations, paid media, brand identity systems, and public relations programs. Its work is sold as integrated marketing engagements to consumer and trade brands operating in the home and building category across North America.

Product overview

Wray Ward is a creative marketing agency specializing in the home and building category. The agency offers a comprehensive suite of services including brand strategy and marketing, creative campaigns and content development, social media management and community building, digital experience and website development, trade show strategy and activation, paid media and advertising, brand identity and refresh, and email and nurture marketing. Rather than a software product company, Wray Ward provides professional services to help home and building brands develop marketing strategies, create advertising campaigns, manage social media communities, and execute integrated marketing programs across digital, print, and experiential channels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Brand Strategy & Marketing

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• HughesLeahyKarlovic (HLK): B2B creative agency with strong building-products and home/building client roster. Comparable in scale and vertical orientation, with similar trade-audience marketing capabilities.
• Godfrey: Mid-sized B2B creative agency with comparable brand strategy, content development, and integrated marketing services. Targets similar enterprise clients in industrial and consumer categories.
• Lewis Communications: Mid-sized creative agency with similar B2B and consumer brand-marketing services. Comparable scale and full-service positioning, with similar operational footprint in the Southeast US.
• Schafer Condon Carter (SCC): Independent full-service creative agency with comparable brand strategy, digital, and content offerings. Comparable in scale and serves similarly sized enterprise clients.
• r2 Group (formerly Rountree Group): Mid-sized creative agency historically focused on home and building categories with similar B2B brand-marketing services. Direct competitor in the same niche, serving comparable OEM and trade audiences.
• Miller Brooks: B2B creative agency serving building-products and home-improvement clients. Comparable in service scope (brand strategy, digital, content) and vertical orientation to Wray Ward.

Broad incumbents

• The Integer Group: Mid-sized creative agency (now part of Omnicom-led commerce network) with comparable enterprise client roster. Provides a benchmark for mid-market agencies that have scaled or integrated into networks.
• gyro: Global B2B creative agency with significant building-products and industrial client roster. Comparable in B2B brand strategy and integrated marketing services, with broader geographic reach.
• Eric Mower + Associates: Mid-sized full-service agency with B2B and B2C capabilities across multiple verticals. Comparable in scale to Wray Ward and provides a benchmark for independent mid-market agency operations.

Emerging players

• Tangerine: Mid-sized B2B creative agency with comparable brand strategy and integrated marketing offerings. Comparable scale with emerging capabilities in digital and content services for enterprise clients.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/wrayward
• Facebookfacebook.com/wrayward
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wray-ward
• Instagraminstagram.com/wray_ward

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 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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