APCO Worldwide - Revision history

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Richard Bew: /* March 2016-May 2016 */

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March 2016-May 2016

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Clients

Richard Bew: /* People */

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People

Richard Bew: /* Registrar of consultant lobbyists */

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Registrar of consultant lobbyists

Richard Bew: /* September 2015-November 2015 */

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September 2015-November 2015

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December 2015-February 2016

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 ===June 2015-August 2015===
-[[British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers]] | [[Butler Snow PLLC]] | [[Danaher]] | [[DEK International]] | [[Deloitte]] | [[Ebay Inc]] | [[Educational Testing Service]] | [[Equinix]] | [[GE Healthcare]] | [[GML Limited]] | [[Grainger]] | [[Lebua Hotels & Resorts]] | [[Lockheed Martin]] | [[Mars Inc.]] | [[Microsoft]] | [[Netjets]] | [[Pfizer]] | [[Reckitt Benckiser]] | [[Recolight]] | [[Sodexo]]<ref name="Jun15"> [http://www.appc.org.uk/members/register/register-profile/?company=APCO Worldwide Register 1st June - 31st August 2015]''ACCP'', accessed 28 September 2015</ref>
+[[British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers]] | [[Butler Snow PLLC]] | [[Danaher]] | [[DEK International]] | [[Deloitte]] | [[Ebay Inc]] | [[Educational Testing Service]] | [[Equinix]] | [[GE Healthcare]] | [[GML Limited]] | [[Grainger]] | [[Lebua Hotels & Resorts]] | [[Lockheed Martin]] | [[Mars Inc.]] | [[Microsoft]] | [[Netjets]] | [[Pfizer]] | [[Reckitt Benckiser]] | [[Recolight]] | [[Sodexo]]<ref name="Jun15"/>
 ===September 2014-November 2014===
 [[Anheuser-Busch InBev]] | [[Blue Fish Association]] | [[British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers]] | [[Butler Snow]] PLLC | [[Chartered Society of Physiotherapy]] | [[Children's Investment Fund Foundation]] | [[Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints]] | [[Dubai World Central]] | [[eBay]] Inc | [[Education Testing Services]] | [[GE Healthcare]] | [[GML]] Limited | [[Intuit]] | [[Mars]] Inc. | [[Mead Johnson Nutrition]] | [[Microsoft]] | [[MOL]] | [[Naftogaz]] | [[Reckitt Benckiser]] | [[Rimal Investment Projects]] LLC | [[Scotts Company]] Ltd | [[Sodexo]] | [[Tetra Pak]]<ref name="Sept14"/>

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-[[category:Public relations firms]][[Category:PR Clients]][[Category:Lobbying firms]][[Category:Lobbying]][[Category:Tobacco]][[Category:Health]][[Category:Nuclear Spin]][[Category:Education Industry]][[Arms Industry]]
+[[category:Public relations firms]][[Category:PR Clients]][[Category:Lobbying firms]][[Category:Lobbying]][[Category:Tobacco]][[Category:Health]][[Category:Nuclear Spin]][[Category:Education Industry]]|[[Arms Industry]]
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-[[category:Public relations firms]][[Category:PR Clients]][[Category:Lobbying firms]][[Category:Lobbying]][[Category:Tobacco]][[Category:Health]][[Category:Nuclear Spin]][[Category:Education Industry]]
+[[category:Public relations firms]][[Category:PR Clients]][[Category:Lobbying firms]][[Category:Lobbying]][[Category:Tobacco]][[Category:Health]][[Category:Nuclear Spin]][[Category:Education Industry]][[Arms Industry]]
 '''[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php?title=Lobbying_Portal Back to Lobbying Portal]'''

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 [[File:APCO.png|250px|right|thumb|APCO offices, Rue Montoyer 47, Brussels]]
-The lobbying company '''APCO Worldwide''' was born out of the Washington-based tobacco industry law firm [[Arnold and Porter]], from which it derives it name. APCO Worldwide was founded in 1984 as APCO Associates Inc. by [[Margery Kraus]], who was its first president and CEO. APCO Worldwide has offices in 24 locations in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. In September 2004 Kraus led a management buy-out of her firm from [[Grey Global Group]], making APCO one of the largest privately owned communication and public affairs firms in the world.<ref>"[http://www.apcoworldwide.com/content/locations/keystaffbio.cfm?ksid=156&cid=1&ofid=5 Margery Kraus]", APCO Worldwide website, accessed January 2009.</ref>
+The lobbying company '''APCO Worldwide''' was born out of the Washington-based tobacco industry law firm [[Arnold and Porter]], from which it derives its name. APCO Worldwide was founded in 1984 as APCO Associates Inc. by [[Margery Kraus]], who was its first president and CEO. APCO Worldwide has offices in 24 locations in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. In September 2004 Kraus led a management buy-out of her firm from [[Grey Global Group]], making APCO one of the largest privately owned communication and public affairs firms in the world.<ref>"[http://www.apcoworldwide.com/content/locations/keystaffbio.cfm?ksid=156&cid=1&ofid=5 Margery Kraus]", APCO Worldwide website, accessed January 2009.</ref>
 ==Helping Big Tobacco==
 ===Fighting the EPA's passive smoking regulation===
-In December 1992, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a landmark report called Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking which classified environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) as a grade A carcinogen. Shortly afterwards, in February 1993 [[Ellen Merlo]], [[Philip Morris]]'s senior vice-president of corporate affairs, sent a letter to the company's CEO and president [[William I. Campbell]] explaining: "Our overriding objective is to discredit the EPA report ... Concurrently, it is our objective to prevent states and cities, as well as businesses, from passive-smoking bans." For this purpose she had hired APCO. In advice attached to Merlo's letter, APCO warned:"No matter how strong the arguments, industry spokespeople are, in and of themselves, not always credible or appropriate messengers." The industry could only win by associating its fight against a ban on passive smoking with other people and other issues. APCO advised that the industry should therefore set up astroturf movements and proposed to set up "a national coalition intended to educate the media, public officials and the public about the dangers of 'junk science'. Coalition will address credibility of government's scientific studies, risk-assessment techniques and misuse of tax dollars ... Upon formation of Coalition, key leaders will begin media outreach, eg editorial board tours, opinion articles, and brief elected officials in selected states." For a fee of $150,000, APCO would found the coalition, write its mission statements, and "prepare and place opinion articles in key markets". The coalition would cost $75,000 to set up.<ref name="gm">George Monbiot, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/sep/19/ethicalliving.g2 The denial industry], ''The Guardian'', 29 September 2006</ref>
+In December 1992, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a landmark report called Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking which classified environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) as a grade A carcinogen. Shortly afterward, in February 1993 [[Ellen Merlo]], [[Philip Morris]]'s senior vice-president of corporate affairs, sent a letter to the company's CEO and president [[William I. Campbell]] explaining: "Our overriding objective is to discredit the EPA report ... Concurrently, it is our objective to prevent states and cities, as well as businesses, from passive-smoking bans." For this purpose she had hired APCO. In advice attached to Merlo's letter, APCO warned:"No matter how strong the arguments, industry spokespeople are, in and of themselves, not always credible or appropriate messengers." The industry could only win by associating its fight against a ban on passive smoking with other people and other issues. APCO advised that the industry should therefore set up astroturf movements and proposed to set up "a national coalition intended to educate the media, public officials and the public about the dangers of 'junk science'. Coalition will address credibility of government's scientific studies, risk-assessment techniques and misuse of tax dollars ... Upon formation of Coalition, key leaders will begin media outreach, eg editorial board tours, opinion articles, and brief elected officials in selected states." For a fee of $150,000, APCO would found the coalition, write its mission statements, and "prepare and place opinion articles in key markets". The coalition would cost $75,000 to set up.<ref name="gm">George Monbiot, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/sep/19/ethicalliving.g2 The denial industry], ''The Guardian'', 29 September 2006</ref>
 ===Founding The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition===
 A letter and proposal to Vic Han, [[Philip Morris]]'s director of communications, from APCO's Margery Kraus shows that APCO was instrumental in setting up TASSC, [[The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition]], the Philip Morris front group dedicated to countering scientific findings of the ill health effects of second-hand smoking.
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 APCO describes its strategy of recruiting third-party apparently independent scientists to parrot the industry line:
-:APCO will conduct an on-going program of outreach to credible scientists and academicians to enlist their support and participation with TASSC and its related issues ., In this regard, APCO will identify and recruit targeted individuals by matching scientists and academicians to key TASSC issues. The scientists and academicians will be encouraged to participate in TASSC media activities...<ref>All the quotations from Kraus's letter are from: Margery Kraus, APCO Associates, [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu:8080/d/q/a/dqa35e00/Sdqa35e00.pdf letter] to Vic Han of Philip Morris, 23 September 1993, accessed January 2009. The letter can also be downloaded as a pdf [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/9/92/Kraus.pdf here].</ref>
+:APCO will conduct an ongoing program of outreach to credible scientists and academicians to enlist their support and participation with TASSC and its related issues ., In this regard, APCO will identify and recruit targeted individuals by matching scientists and academicians to key TASSC issues. The scientists and academicians will be encouraged to participate in TASSC media activities...<ref>All the quotations from Kraus's letter are from: Margery Kraus, APCO Associates, [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu:8080/d/q/a/dqa35e00/Sdqa35e00.pdf letter] to Vic Han of Philip Morris, 23 September 1993, accessed January 2009. The letter can also be downloaded as a pdf [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/9/92/Kraus.pdf here].</ref>
 APCO then describes its media relations plan:
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 * Emerging Markets Director [[Simon Whitehead]] "spent 2 years working at Conservative Central Office, where he implemented communications, marketing and fundraising strategies before, during and after the 1997 General Election".<ref>[http://www.apcouk.com/pc/our_people.asp APCO UK - Our People], undated, accessed June 2006.</ref> Whitehead now works for [[Hill and Knowlton]] London.
-*[[Claire Ashbridge-Thomlinson]], is the director and founding partner of East London Brewing Company. Former director of strategy and business development in healthcare at [[Fleishman-Hillard]] and  senior associate in health practice at [[APCO]].
+*[[Claire Ashbridge-Thomlinson]], is the director and founding partner of East London Brewing Company. Former director of strategy and business development in healthcare at [[Fleishman-Hillard]] and senior associate in health practice at [[APCO]].
 ==Clients==
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 : APCO has always enjoyed a unique ability to attract some of the biggest names in government -- some as affiliated consultants, many as full-time employees -- and 2004 saw the addition of two very big names: former Senate Majority Leader, Senator [[Bob Dole]], who will serve as a senior counselor; and former U.S. Secretary of State [[Henry Kissinger]], whose firm entered into a unique strategic alliance with APCO shortly after the MBO. Other additions include [[Roger Lowe]], formerly senior vice president and director of the Washington, D.C., public affairs practice of [[Porter Novelli]]; [[Mike Tuffin]], a veteran of America's Health Insurance Plans and [[PhRMA]]; [[Patty Kennedy]], a [[Burson Marsteller]] veteran who joined the fledgling New York office; and [[Simon Miller]], managing director of APCO U.K. They join a veteran leadership team that includes [[Margery Kraus]] and [[Neal Cohen]]; executive vice presidents [[Don Bonker]] and [[Jane Garvey]]; and senior vice presidents such as [[B. Jay Cooper]], [[Marc Ginsberg]], [[Kent Jarrell]], and [[Don Riegle]].
-: APCO is involved in some of the biggest issues facing the world today, from the rule of law in Russia  to the global battle against HIV/AIDS, from antitrust issues for [[Microsoft]] to the liberalization of the financial services industry. Highlights of the firm's work include working with [[Toyota]] and its law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges after criticism of the company's bulletproof vests; helping [[Pfizer]] promote its Share Card and U Share Drug Discount Card programs; continuing its reputation management work with World Wrestling Entertainment, promoting its youth voter initiative, Smackdown Your Vote!; and assisting the Canadian Embassy with its efforts to raise awareness of the country's contributions to the American economy.
+: APCO is involved in some of the biggest issues facing the world today, from the rule of law in Russia to the global battle against HIV/AIDS, from antitrust issues for [[Microsoft]] to the liberalization of the financial services industry. Highlights of the firm's work include working with [[Toyota]] and its law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges after criticism of the company's bulletproof vests; helping [[Pfizer]] promote its Share Card and U Share Drug Discount Card programs; continuing its reputation management work with World Wrestling Entertainment, promoting its youth voter initiative, Smackdown Your Vote!; and assisting the Canadian Embassy with its efforts to raise awareness of the country's contributions to the American economy.
 ==Contact, References and Resources==

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 ===APPC register===
 ===March 2016-May 2016===
-[[Butler Snow PLLC]] | [[Danaher]] | [[Danfoss]] | [[Deloitte]] | [[eBay Inc]] | [[Equinix]] | [[GE Healthcare]] | [[GML Limited]] | [[Healthcare Distribution Association]]  (Formerly known as British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers) | [[Intuit]] | [[Lebua Hotels & Resorts]] | [[Lockheed Martin]] | [[Mars Inc]] |.[[Microsoft]] | [[NetJets]] | [[Reckitt Benckiser]] | [[Sodexo]] | [[Texas Instruments Inc.]] | [[World Ventures]] <ref name="Mar16"/>
+[[Butler Snow PLLC]] | [[Danaher]] | [[Danfoss]] | [[Deloitte]] | [[eBay Inc]] | [[Equinix]] | [[GE Healthcare]] | [[GML Limited]] | [[Healthcare Distribution Association]]  (Formerly known as British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers) | [[Intuit]] | [[Lebua Hotels & Resorts]] | [[Lockheed Martin]] | [[Mars Inc]] | [[Microsoft]] | [[NetJets]] | [[Reckitt Benckiser]] | [[Sodexo]] | [[Texas Instruments Inc.]] | [[World Ventures]] <ref name="Mar16"/>
 ===December 2015-February 2016===

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	*Sir [[Graham Watson]] - on the international advisory council. A former [[Liberal Democrats]] MEP for the South West of England and Somerset and North Devon from 1994-2014.<ref> Rod Muir [https://www.publicaffairsnews.com/articles/news/apco-swoops-former-mep APCO swoops for former MEP] ''Public Affairs News'', 25 September 2014, accessed 19 January 2015 </ref>		*Sir [[Graham Watson]] - on the international advisory council. A former [[Liberal Democrats]] MEP for the South West of England and Somerset and North Devon from 1994-2014.<ref> Rod Muir [https://www.publicaffairsnews.com/articles/news/apco-swoops-former-mep APCO swoops for former MEP] ''Public Affairs News'', 25 September 2014, accessed 19 January 2015 </ref>
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		+	===March 2016-May 2016===
		+	[[James Acheson-Gray]] \| [[Graham Ackerman]] \| [[Geoff Beattie]] \| [[Alexandra Bigland]] \| [[William Browne]] \| [[Magdalen Bush]] \| [[Victoria Chartier]] \| [[David Clark]] \| [[Leon Cook]] \| [[Sara Cruz]] \| [[Zeynep Dereli]] \| [[Victoria Ergolavou]] \| [[Thomas Eymond-Laritaz]] \| [[Anna Fountain]] \| [[Andrei Goldis]] \| [[Roger Hayes]] \| [[Bridget Heath]] \| [[Mitch Henderson]] \| [[Kristin Heume]] \| [[Charlotte Higgo]] \| [[Polly Kennedy]] \| [[Jolyon Kimble]] \| [[Alexander Kolawole]] \| [[Rasika Krishna-Schmid]] \| [[Maria Lavrova]] \| [[Daniella Lebor]] \| [[Olivier Leroy]] \| [[Chris Levy]] \| [[Danielle McGuigan]] \| [[Joseph Meaden]] \| [[Joseph Meaden]] \| [[Douglas Miller]] \| [[Thomas Newham]] \| [[Kenneth Page]] \| [[Emma Putt]] \| [[Adelina Rashkova]] \| [[Dawn Robinson]] \| [[Martin Sawer]] \| [[Andrew Sikorski]] \| [[James Spence]] \| [[Brad Staples]] \| [[Jessica Sullivan]] \| [[Toby Tanner]] \| [[William Wallace]] <ref name="Mar16">[http://www.appc.org.uk/register/profile/?company=APCO%20Worldwide APCO Worldwide Staff], ''APPC'', accessed 15 June 2016</ref>

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 [[British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers]] | [[GML Ltd]] | [[Equinix]] | [[Sodexo]]
 ====October-December 2015====
 [[British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers]] | [[GML Ltd]] | [[Equinix]] | [[Sodexo]] <ref>[[https://registerofconsultantlobbyists.force.com/CLR_Public_Profile?id=00124000006brcZAAQ APCO Profile 2015], ''Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists'', accessed 4 February 2016</ref>
 ===APPC register===

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 ===September 2015-November 2015===
-[[British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers]] | [[Butler Snow PLLC]] |  [[Danaher]] | [[DEK International]] | [[Deloitte]] | [[eBay Inc]] | [[Equinix]] | [[GE Healthcare]] | [[GML Limited]] |  [[Grainger]] | [[Lebua Hotels & Resorts]] | [[Lockheed Martin]] |  [[Mars Inc.]] | [[Microsoft]] | [[NetJets]] | [[Reckitt Benckiser]] | [[Recolight]] | [[Sodexo]]<ref>[http://www.appc.org.uk/members/register/register-profile/?company=APCO%20Worldwide APCO Worldwide clients, Sep-Nov15], ''APPC.org'', accessed 4 February 2016</ref>
+[[British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers]] | [[Butler Snow PLLC]] |  [[Danaher]] | [[DEK International]] | [[Deloitte]] | [[eBay Inc]] | [[Equinix]] | [[GE Healthcare]] | [[GML Limited]] |  [[Grainger]] | [[Lebua Hotels & Resorts]] | [[Lockheed Martin]] |  [[Mars Inc.]] | [[Microsoft]] | [[Netjets]] | [[Reckitt Benckiser]] | [[Recolight]] | [[Sodexo]]<ref>[http://www.appc.org.uk/members/register/register-profile/?company=APCO%20Worldwide APCO Worldwide clients, Sep-Nov15], ''APPC.org'', accessed 4 February 2016</ref>
 ===June 2015-August 2015===