Meet Our Team of Experts
Meet the Team Behind Ruche Marketing
Ruche Marketing’s Co-Founders/Directors are Rachel Craig and Karen Macwee, two life-long friends who turned more than five decades of combined marketing and legal experience into an agency built on one simple idea: If you get properly embedded into a client’s business, you’ll deliver work that actually moves the needle.
One team, fully embedded
Rachel and Karen don’t believe in arm’s-length agency work. Their approach is to become part of your team, close enough to understand how you operate, invested enough to care about the result, and always on hand when you need them. That’s what ‘personal and professional’ means at Ruche: Real relationships, not account numbers.
Backed by a trusted network of specialists
No two clients need exactly the same thing, so Rachel and Karen work with a hand-picked network of freelance professionals covering everything from PR to web development. These specialists are brought in to match each client’s specific needs. Every specialist is chosen and managed personally by Rachel and Karen, so you always get the right skills for the job, without losing the single point of contact and the consistent quality Ruche is known for.
Rachel Craig
Co-Founder / Director
Rachel has spent over 30 years in the legal sector and has built a strong specialism in legal marketing. She has the rare advantage of having previously been a fee earner, which enables her to often spot the angles other agencies sometimes miss, and pushes clients toward the outcome that actually matters, not just the easy one.
Karen Macwee
Co-Founder / Director
Karen brings over 20 years of marketing experience across B2B, B2C and B2B2C organisations, including a standout role as lead marketer on one of the biggest group litigation actions the UK has seen. She’s the strategist who turns complexity into a plan clients can actually follow.
Eve Dugdale
Freelance Media Adviser
Eve has over two decades of experience as a journalist and media adviser, building a rare specialism in legal media advisory alongside broad experience across national and international newsrooms. Eve knows exactly what stories will run, and helps clients to tell their stories in their way.
Award Winners for Four Years Running
- 2023 to 2026
SME News Business Elite Awards
- Content Marketing Agency of the Year Manchester 2026
- Best Legal & Professional Services Content Marketing Agency 2025
- Content Marketing Agency of the Year North West 2024
- Best Content Marketing Agency Manchester 2023