GPC Market Access - Revision history

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=External Resources

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 At the time, GPC was owned by [[Countrywide Porter Novelli]] (part of the [[Omnicom Group]]).  GPC's parent company, [[GPC International]], merged with [[Omnicom]]'s [[Fleishman-Hillard International Communications]] in 2001, and now operates as the [[Fleishman-Hillard]] public affairs brand outside the United States. In March 1998 prior to the Lobbygate story breaking GPC took over the lobbying firm [[Prima Europe]],<ref>IAN DARBY, '[http://prweek.co.uk/uk/news/search/93206// STOP PRESS: GPC Market Access makes Harrison CEO]' ''PR Week'' UK, 06 March 1998, 00:00am </ref> set up by [[Roger Liddle]] (who went on to beome an advisor to [[Tony Blair]] at Downing Street and was central to the Lobbygate allegations.  Liddle later turned up as [[Peter Mandelson]]'s Chef De Cabinet when Mandelson became a European Commissioner).
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 It had a Scottish office known as [[GPC Market Access Scotland]], subsequently [[GPC Scotland]].
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 '''GPC Market Access Group Ltd''' was a Brussels-based PR and government lobbying firm and the centre of the 'cash-for-access' [[LobbyGate]] scandal.  Its employee, [[Derek Draper]], hit the headlines in 1998 for allegedly offering companies access to high-level cabinet ministers.
-At the time, GPC was owned by [[Countrywide Porter Novelli]] (part of the [[Omnicom Group]]).  GPC's parent company, [[GPC International]], merged with [[Omnicom]]'s [[Fleishman-Hillard International Communications]] in 2001, and now operates as the [[Fleishman-Hillard]] public affairs brand outside the United States.
+At the time, GPC was owned by [[Countrywide Porter Novelli]] (part of the [[Omnicom Group]]).  GPC's parent company, [[GPC International]], merged with [[Omnicom]]'s [[Fleishman-Hillard International Communications]] in 2001, and now operates as the [[Fleishman-Hillard]] public affairs brand outside the United States. In March 1998 prior to the Lobbygate story breaking GPC took over the lobbying firm [[Prima Europe]],<ref>IAN DARBY, '[http://prweek.co.uk/uk/news/search/93206// STOP PRESS: GPC Market Access makes Harrison CEO]' ''PR Week'' UK, 06 March 1998, 00:00am </ref> set up by [[Roger Liddle]] (who went on to beome an advisor to [[Tony Blair]] at Downing Street and was central to the Lobbygate allegations.  Liddle later turned up as [[Peter Mandelson]]'s Chef De Cabinet when Mandelson became a European Commissioner).
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 *[[Louise Harvey]]
 ==Resources, Notes==
-===External Resources==
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 *"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/129975.stm Fresh questions in lobbyist row ]", ''BBC'', July 11, 1998.

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-GPC Market Access was a lobbying firm closely liked to the 'cash for access' scandal.  It was renamed as part of the [[GPC International]] group, now renamed [[Fleishman-Hillard]].  The ultimate owner of the group is [[Omnicom]].
+'''GPC Market Access Group Ltd''' was a Brussels-based PR and government lobbying firm and the centre of the 'cash-for-access' [[LobbyGate]] scandal.  Its employee, [[Derek Draper]], hit the headlines in 1998 for allegedly offering companies access to high-level cabinet ministers.
 It had a Scottish office known as [[GPC Market Access Scotland]], subsequently [[GPC Scotland]].
-==People==
-*[[Mike Craven]]
+==Clients==
 *[[Derek Draper]]
-==Resources==
+*"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/129975.stm Fresh questions in lobbyist row ]", ''BBC'', July 11, 1998.
-For further information, see relevant SourceWatch page [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=GPC_Market_Access GPC Market Access]
+*HM Government, [http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo980713/debtext/80713-08.htm  Answers to Questions], ''Hansard'', 13 July 1998.
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	GPC Market Access was a lobbying firm closely liked to the 'cash for access' scandal. It was renamed as part of the [[GPC International]] group, now renamed [[Fleishman-Hillard]]. The ultimate owner of the group is [[Omnicom]].		GPC Market Access was a lobbying firm closely liked to the 'cash for access' scandal. It was renamed as part of the [[GPC International]] group, now renamed [[Fleishman-Hillard]]. The ultimate owner of the group is [[Omnicom]].

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	GPC Market Access was a lobbying firm closely liked to the 'cash for access' scandal. It was renamed as part of the [[GPC International]] group, now renamed [[Fleishman-Hillard]]. The ultimate owner of the group is [[Omnicom]].		GPC Market Access was a lobbying firm closely liked to the 'cash for access' scandal. It was renamed as part of the [[GPC International]] group, now renamed [[Fleishman-Hillard]]. The ultimate owner of the group is [[Omnicom]].

−	It had a Scottish office known as [[GPC Market Access Scotland]].	+	It had a Scottish office known as [[GPC Market Access Scotland]], subsequently [[GPC Scotland]].

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−	GPC Market Access was a lobbying firm closely liked to the 'cash for access' scandal. It was renamed as part of the [[GPC International]] group, now renamed [[Fleishman-Hillard]]. The ultimate owner of the group is [[Omnicom]]	+	GPC Market Access was a lobbying firm closely liked to the 'cash for access' scandal. It was renamed as part of the [[GPC International]] group, now renamed [[Fleishman-Hillard]]. The ultimate owner of the group is [[Omnicom]].
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		+	It had a Scottish office known as [[GPC Market Access Scotland]].