McEwan Purvis
McEwan-Purvis is a lobbying and PR firm set up by Sam McEwan and Jeremy Purvis
According to his biography on the Scottish parliament website: Jeremy Purvis MSP Career History: 2001 - 2003 Company Director McEwan Purvis (Strategic communications consultancy)
1998-2001 GJW Scotland]] (Parliamentary affairs company)
Clients
McEwan-Purvis does not disclose itw clients on its website. Indeed it notes that 'McEwan Purvis' staff are experienced at handling sensitive issues and confidential information. Keeping pre-launch campaigns under wraps is familiar territory, as is working on market and politically sensitive projects.
We have wide experience of planning, co-ordinating and implementing product and campaign launches and working on competition cases - all of which require the greatest sensitivity and discretion.'
Nevertheless, it leaves traces on the web. Among its clients are:
- Raytheon (Arms manufacturer - makers of the bombs dropped by the US on the Baghdad market in March 2003) [1].
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Scottish branch) [www.rpsgb.org.uk/scotland/pdfs/pr050614b.pdf].
- Royal Society of Chemistry [www.rsc.org/images/ScottishChemistryTeachersSurveyResults_tcm18-28526.pdf].
- Association for Science Education in Scotland [www.ase.org.uk/htm/regional/regions/scotland/scot_pdf/scot_news_nov04.pdf].
Employees of McEwan Purvis such as Jayne Struthers have attended they the cross party group on Sexual health in the Scottish Parliament [www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/crossPartyGroups/groups/shealth-docs/minutes04-0114.pdf].
