MOSCOW, July 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

AGT Communications Group was ranked first among the Russian communications agencies, according to the annual global ranking developed by The Holmes Report, becoming one of the Top-60 of the global communications companies.

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The agencies were ranked based on the amount of agency fees throughout 2013. 250 world's biggest communications agencies took part in the ranking.

Vyacheslav Laschevsky, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the AGT Communications Group, says, "Analyzing The Holmes Report ranking, one can note that growth rate of Russian communications market lags far behind the global rates, though Russian professionals are as good as the international ones in terms of technologies and effectiveness. Development of the Russian communications sector directly depends on the clients' growing trust, which in its turn, can be boosted by the Russian PR agencies participation in independent rankings, such as The Holmes Report and National Communications Companies Ranking (НР2К)."

The Holmes Report is the leading annual global ranking, showing the real volume of the global communications companies, one of the most reliable and independent field-specific sources about the PR industry (together with rankings by О'Dwyers, PR Week). For more than 15 years, The Holmes Report has been providing PR professionals with the most comprehensive and relevant information and analytical data of the PR communications market.

AGT Communications Group is one of the world's biggest communications companies, providing services to government authorities, ranking the first in the "Public Awareness Activity" segment (according to the Vedomosti report). AGT Communications network, being a part of the AGT Group, having its offices in the Russian cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Vladivostok, as well as in Minsk (Belarus) and Almaty (Kazakhstan). AGT Communications Group is a member of PROI Worldwide international network of independent PR agencies.

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