Bijl successful for Marktplaats, an eBay -company

Since the spring of 2009 Bijl, partners in public relations works for Marktplaats, an eBay-company. Recent successes include  the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Marktplaats this year.

The PR campaign resulted in widespread coverage on Dutch tv news and radio, national and regional newspapers and key online publications. The long term brief aims at raising the image in the Netherlands including and extensive press PR and issue management progamme.

Consumer as well as b2b PR are involved as merchants and businesses are becoming an increasingly important target group. "Even for 40-staff agency as Bijl this is a substantial piece of business. Working for one of the world's top-rated brands on such a large scale is something we are extremely proud of", says founder and director Ruud Bijl.

Account manager Petra van IJserloo runs the client with a team of six out of the Rotterdam office.