A firm which started life in a disused cellar with just one contract is celebrating another successful quarter of business growth.

Marketing and design agency Pure Pr, which was founded by Gary Dooley and Tim Illingworth in East Morton in 1998, has revealed an 18 per cent growth in business over the same period last year.

The firm, which has a turnover of £300,000, has also boosted growth by 25 per cent in the last quarter compared to the first quarter of 2002.

Pure began life in Mr Illingworth's cellar with a second-hand computer and a contract with Bradford-based engineering company Fabreeka.

Since April the firm has won several new accounts, including outdoor clothing specialists Regatta, UK-wide disaster recovery firm ISS Ark & General, Response 2 call centre, computer firm Logcom and the Bluefin Group.

The firm has also won accounts with Surgical Innovations, Ellmore Construction and The Music Company in the same period.

It has also seen dental suppliers Optident, which it has done work for in the past, return to the fold.

Tim Illingworth, joint managing partner at the firm, said: "It's been a very, very good period for Pure and sets us up strongly for another record year of trading."

The firm, which recently appointed Emma Lygo as business development manager, is also set to start filming a second set of TV adverts for clients Acorn Stairlifts at its purpose-built studio.

Gary Dooley, Pure's other managing partner, said: "We are all enjoying the creative challenge presented by our workload and that transmits itself to our clients."

The firm has worked on a variety of projects since it began trading, including producing a magazine called Wicket Women to support the England and Wales Cricket Board's national campaign to promote women's cricket.

It has also produced support documents for the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service NHS Trust and advertising for global engineering company Fabreeka of Shipley.

Pure employs seven people.