Ultimate Holding Company

Website Launch Nov 2008

Hello and welcome to our new site!

It's been a long wait but it's finally here. Take a look at our exciting new portfolio and while you're
at it, our revamped mission statement is up on the home page.

More content to be uploaded soon, watch this space!

Welcome To Paradise! Nov 2008

UHC is to feature as a major part of Art Gene’s 2008/9 programme 'Welcome To Paradise' and we have created a new gallery installation to mark the start of it and to launch our contribution ‘It’s Not As Rough As It Used To Be’.
Join us for the launch this Thurs 20th November 2008 @ Art Gene Gallery, Barrow In Furness, 7:00pm - 9:00pm, free admission. All welcome. Refreshments will be served. Sign up for more UHC events in Barrow over Jan/Feb 2009 via Art Gene's mailing list

Creative Review Covers Climate Camp Oct 2008

Climate Camp received a lot of follow up press recently, some of it in some exciting new places - and we’d like to take a bit of the credit! UHC created this year's penknife brand and its been featured in the October issue of Creative Review (see our press archive or the Creative Review blog).
Its encouraging to see quality design activism taken seriously. Here's to even wider success next year!

Caroline Lucas Out and About Oct 2008

Our client Caroline Lucas, Green MEP for the South East Region, has also been seeing lots of press recently in Ethical Consumer, Red Pepper Magazine and The Guardian amongst others. UHC were behind her brand new website and content management system, as well as a series of promotional animations and postcards, see her website here

UHC at Art Gene Oct 2008

As artists in residence at Art Gene UHC are developing a radical new space in Barrow-in-Furness. Over the next two months we'll be developing work around the subject of journeys and food, to be showcased in the space, at the Art Gene gallery and around Barrow. Watch this space!

'Hurtful Essences' Campaign in Scotland Oct 2008

Uncaged have been working hard campaigning against Herbal Essences, with posters, leaflets and a six meter tall inflatable bottle, all created by UHC. Support has grown nationally and now word has spread to Scotland. Check out Uncaged's news page or Facebook group for latest whereabouts. Over 13 000 people (as we write) have formally pledged to boycott Herbal Essences, with hundreds of thousands more made aware of Herbal Essences' animal testing. Contribute by signing the petition at www.hurtfulessences.org

The One's to Watch! Sep 2008

At this year's Best of Manchester Awards UHC were described by the City's Creative Director Peter Saville as "the ones to watch"!

Our own Creative Director was proud to have been a finalist in the Art category of this year's awards, an annual competition and exhibition organised by Urbis celebrating local innovation in art, music and fashion.

Water Table Wins Bronze Medal July 2008

Our third bespoke table, The Water Table, won Bronze Medal at this year's Hampton Court Flower Show for Southend-on-Sea Borough Council's low-water garden. View our Press Archive to see the Water Table on BBC Youtube clip. The project maps London's underground rivers and the Victorian engineers who built our railways and sewers onto the veins of a giant cabbage leaf, all hand-painted in ink.