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with their wheels and carpentry needs and the corporation’s firefighters, the building’s staff still provide a service to the people of Gloucester. While the staff aren’t much use at putting out fires, they are experts in creating brands and public relations campaigns. Marketing campaigns and strategies are devised, press releases are written and Gloucestershire’s leading business magazine and website: Punchline- Gloucester.com is brought to life each day. Mark Owen, the managing director of Moose Marketing and PR and editor of Punchline said: “We are lucky to work in an amazing building right in the heart of the city of Gloucester. “It’s a fantastic, creative space and a real privilege to work in each and every day” l For more information about Moose Marketing and PR call 01452 308781 or e-mail mark@moosemarketingandpr.co.uk
the city council opened the Gloucester Transport Museum in 1977, fittingly featuring a fire engine as one of its key exhibits. After the museum closed in 2003 there were applications to turn the building into a bar and restaurant – but both were refused by city council planners. In 2005, a plan to turn the ground floor into offices and the upper floors into residential apartments was approved. Nearly £450,000 was spent transforming the building into what it is today, with two private residences and ground floor offices where once the fire engines sat. The offices were first used by a legal company before Moose Marketing and PR, an award-winning advertising, PR and marketing agency moved to the site in 2010. But just like J Trigg’s, who served the city’s population
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