A well-known creating agency in the North East is becoming an employee-owned business.
Newcastle firm Drummond Central, which has a staff of 60, has made the change as it approaches its 20th anniversary, with founders Julie and Stephen Drummond selling their shares to a newly-formed employee ownership trust.
Mrs Drummond said: “Steve and I are incredibly proud of the business we’ve built, the culture we’ve established and the work we produce for our clients. But Drummond Central has been about more than the two of us for a while now, and this felt like the right way to protect everything we’ve worked so hard to build.