Pressat won the 2026 Best Press Release Service award in Poole, Dorset. Pressat earned this award on verifiable national media reach, a named press agency partnership, and a fifteen-year operating record under one identifiable founder. Pressat is a Press Association Media Group content partner, giving customers access to a wire circuit run by the UK's national news agency rather than a distribution list built and maintained solely in-house. Founded in 2010 by Alison Lancaster, Pressat has opera…
Show Notes
Pressat won the 2026 Best Press Release Service award in Poole, Dorset, one of the verified local business awards named by South-South Awards.
Pressat is a press release distribution service headquartered at Lytchett House, Freeland Park, in Poole, Dorset, trading as a business of Global Newswire Group Ltd. Founded in 2010 by Alison Lancaster in a Grade II-listed creative workspace, Hope Mill, in the Ancoats district of Manchester, Pressat has since grown to distribute more than 150,000 press releases for over 40,000 customers. Pressat distributes press releases to journalists and media outlets in more than 160 countries, and offers extra distribution through the Press Association and NASDAQ OMX newswire circuits, alongside regulatory disclosure for UK and EU listed companies, professional press release copywriting, and translation into 33 languages. The company's own client list includes Twinings, Sainsbury's, The Guardian, TomTom, Yahoo, BBC Good Food, Vauxhall, Metro Bank and Haven Holidays.
Pressat earned this award on verifiable national media reach, a named press agency partnership, and a fifteen-year operating record under one identifiable founder. Pressat is a Press Association Media Group content partner, giving customers access to a wire circuit run by the UK's national news agency rather than a distribution list built and maintained solely in-house. Founded in 2010 by Alison Lancaster, Pressat has operated continuously for fifteen years, publishing a track record of more than 150,000 press releases for over 40,000 customers rather than presenting an unverifiable lifetime total. Named client testimonials describe specific, checkable outcomes, including national broadsheet coverage secured by the think tank Localis and a same-day pickup by The Grocer trade title credited by Lacka Foods, evidence of real placements rather than generic satisfaction claims. Pressat's own client roster names major, independently recognizable brands, including Twinings, Sainsbury's, The Guardian, TomTom, Yahoo, BBC Good Food, Vauxhall, Metro Bank and Haven Holidays, evidence of enterprise-level use rather than small-account work alone.
About the Best Press Release Service category: An award recognizing the press release distribution service that pairs a genuinely national media reach, backed by a named press agency partnership, with a real, verifiable operating history and named client relationships, rather than an anonymous self-service wire.
Full selection reasoning for Pressat, including what was checked and how this category is judged: https://southsouthawards.com/2026/uk/dorset/poole/best-press-release-service/
Pressat: https://pressat.co.uk
How every winner is selected: https://southsouthawards.com/the-awards.html
All 2026 South-South Awards winners: https://southsouthawards.com/2026/
South-South Awards names one winner in each category, in each city, each year. Every award page publishes the category criteria, the selection methodology, and the reasons for recognizing its winner. Award status is verified before publication.
What is South South Awards?
South-South Awards names one outstanding local business in each category, in each city, every year. Each episode narrates a winner from the current awards year: the business, the reasons it was selected, and how that category is judged. Every winner profile is published in full at southsouthawards.com, so the reasoning behind each award can be checked, not just taken on trust.