Partners & Hawes

What Partners & Hawes does

Partners & Hawes is a privately held, 100% woman-owned brand-first integrated marketing agency founded in 2012 and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a secondary office in Kelowna. The firm operates a decentralized team model of approximately 26 professionals delivering end-to-end brand strategy, visual identity, marketing communications, digital and multimedia production, interdisciplinary design, and content creation services across five service pillars (Brand Foundation, Planning, Digital & Multimedia, Interdisciplinary Design, and Content Creation). Its proprietary "Inside Out Brand Methodology" sequences brand and business strategy alignment ahead of marketing execution, which the firm positions as its primary point of differentiation versus conventional agencies.

The agency serves a client base concentrated in British Columbia and spanning tourism boards and destination marketing organizations (Tourism Chilliwack, Tourism Kelowna, Tourism Prince George, Tourism Nanaimo, The Fraser Valley, Southern Gulf Islands Tourism, Tourism Burnaby, Northeast BC), municipalities, enterprise real estate (Shape Properties, The Amazing Brentwood), consumer brands (ChocolaTas, Spacedog Wines, West Coast Seeds, Bl'eau), education (UBC AMS), and nonprofits (BC Women's Health Foundation). Several relationships have continued for 7+ years as agency of record, including Shape Properties (since 2011), The Fraser Valley (since 2017), Tourism Chilliwack (since 2018), and Tourism Prince George (since 2019).

The revenue model is professional services, project-based and quote-driven with no public pricing; the firm operates as a direct-to-client agency without intermediaries and markets itself through its website portfolio, Instagram, and Applied Arts Award recognition. Since inception, Partners & Hawes has committed 2% of annual revenues to projects supporting BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, women, and underserved communities. The firm has no disclosed funding, no parent organization, and no subsidiary structure; ownership and leadership are concentrated in founder Taya Hawes-Puiu.

Name

Partners & Hawes

Legal name

Partners & Hawes

Website

https://partnersandhawes.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Partners & Hawes is a Vancouver-based, 100% woman-owned brand-first integrated marketing agency serving BC tourism boards, municipalities, enterprise, consumer, education, and nonprofit clients with strategy, design, digital, and content services via a decentralized team.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Brand Strategy and Marketing Services

NAICS

Media Representatives (54184), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Content Studio & Creative Resourcing (In-house/Embedded Teams) (BPAFAIAJ)

Keywords

• Brand strategy
• Integrated marketing
• Creative agency
• Brand development
• Content creation

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Creative Agency Services: Professional services revenue from brand strategy, creative services, digital development, and campaign execution for clients

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Partners & Hawes is a brand-first integrated agency founded in 2012 in Vancouver, BC. The firm delivers strategy, planning, interdisciplinary design, digital and multimedia, and content creation services to organizations such as tourism boards, municipalities, consumer brands, educational institutions, and nonprofits across British Columbia. Work is executed by a decentralized team of approximately 26 specialists across offices in Vancouver and Kelowna.

Product overview

Partners & Hawes is a brand-first agency offering integrated branding and marketing services. Their portfolio consists of five interconnected service pillars: Brand Foundation (research, strategy, naming, visual identity), Planning (marketing strategy, media planning), Digital & Multimedia (web development, social media, campaigns), Interdisciplinary Design (packaging, environmental, event design), and Content Creation (photography, video, motion graphics). The agency operates with a decentralized team model with an office in Vancouver, delivering brand experiences from core strategy through visual communication and digital execution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Brand Foundation Strategic brand foundation work covering positioning, identity systems, and the firm's Inside Out Brand Methodology that aligns internal brand culture with external brand experience for organizational clients.

Quantifiable outcome

• 40+ successful client engagements across tourism, government, and commercial sectors
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• InMist Media HouseminorOthersCollaborated with Inmist Media House on Recovery Campaign: Slowly but Surely (2020). Inmist Media House provided video production support for Chilliwack's Covid recovery campaign creative strategy and production.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• LPK: Global brand consulting and creative agency focused on brand strategy, identity, and design-led growth. Comparable on brand-first methodology and integrated design-to-execution approach, particularly for consumer and healthcare clients.
• Mekanism: Independent creative agency producing brand campaigns, content, and integrated marketing. Comparable on integrated brand-first agency model and mid-market positioning across consumer and culture-driven work.
• Juniper Park\TBWA: Toronto-based independent creative agency within the TBWA network, offering brand strategy, creative, and digital services. Comparable on integrated creative agency model and Canadian mid-market positioning.
• Rethink: Vancouver-based independent creative and brand agency of comparable scale, serving consumer, retail, and government clients. Closely comparable on geography, size, and integrated brand-services positioning.
• Sid Lee: Canadian-founded creative agency with offices in Montreal, Toronto, and LA, offering brand, digital, and experiential services. Comparable on integrated brand-services model and Canadian creative-agency heritage.
• Spring Creative: Vancouver-based creative agency offering brand strategy, design, and digital marketing services to consumer and B2B clients. Comparable on West Coast geography, boutique scale, and integrated brand-services model.
• Zulu Alpha Kilo: Toronto-based independent creative agency known for brand-building and award-winning campaigns. Comparable as a mid-sized Canadian independent agency competing for similar creative AOR work.

Broad incumbents

• Cossette: Largest Canadian-owned marketing and communications agency, offering brand strategy, advertising, digital, and media across Canada. Comparable on full-service creative agency capabilities but at significantly larger scale and broader geographic reach.
• DDB Canada: Canadian operations of the global DDB creative network, providing advertising, brand, and digital services. Comparable on integrated creative agency offerings, but with broader network capabilities and larger resource base.
• McCann Canada: Canadian arm of McCann Worldgroup, offering brand strategy, advertising, and integrated marketing services. Comparable as a full-service creative agency competing for similar brand and government/tourism mandates at network scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/partners_hawes
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/partnersandhawes

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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