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PICTURES: CHRIS BOOTH
DIGITAL
Aycliffe Today’s Adam Steel
meets Johnny Woods, director
of one of Aycliffe’s most vibrant
digital service providers…
Thrive directors Rachel Townsend
Green and Johnny Woods, long-term
friends who formed the company
more than four years ago.
O
ne of the region’s leading creative and marketing
agencies – Aycliffe Business Park-based Thrive
Marketing – is in the process of unveiling some
exciting changes and new appointments as it builds for the
future.
Long-time friends and colleagues Johnny Woods and
Rachel Townsend Green created the agency by merging
their two separate businesses in 2014 and have seen the
organisation’s growth go from strength-to-strength.
Employing a nine-strong team of marketers, developers
and designers, the agency, which is also a HubSpot Certified
Partner, is now expanding its service offering and team with
two new appointments at the end of 2018.
Developer Adam Robinson and designer Adrian Mokryj
add to the diversely-skilled team offering support as
the agency begins to provide desktop and mobile app
development on the back of a number of successful app
builds in 2018.
If that wasn’t enough the agency is now also realigning its