2026 Award
Best Press Release Service in Poole
Pressat won the 2026 Best Press Release Service award from South-South Awards.
Pressat operates in Poole, Dorset.
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.
Why this business was selected
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 Pressat
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.
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Where to find Pressat
Pressat operates in Poole, Dorset.
Lytchett House, 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Poole, Dorset BH16 6FA
Facts in brief
- Pressat won the 2026 Best Press Release Service award from South-South Awards.
- Pressat operates in Poole, Dorset.
- South-South Awards selected Pressat using the published Best Press Release Service methodology.
How the decision was made
South-South Awards selected Pressat using the published Best Press Release Service methodology.
Eligible press release services are reviewed against breadth and verifiability of media distribution reach, named partnerships with recognized press or newswire agencies, operating continuity and a real, verifiable office, and named client relationships or testimonials beyond the service's own marketing copy. The final decision recognizes one service whose combination of verifiable reach and operating continuity is consistently strong across the full assessment.
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