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Chime is the holding company for 89 subsidiary companies.  Around 20 percent of Chime is owned by [[WPP]]. Until May 2012 Chime owned the UK's biggest public relations group, [[Bell Pottinger Communications]].
  
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==Background==
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Chime was established in 1989 by Lord [[Tim Bell]] who had been deputy chairman of [[Lowe Howard-Spink & Bell plc]] since leaving [[Saatchi & Saatchi]] in 1985. <ref> Chime Communications, [http://www.chime.plc.uk/business-overview/our-people/board-of-directors Our Board of Directors, Tim Bell] accessed 12th December 2011 </ref> {{Template:alcohol badge}}
  
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Chime is the holding company for the UK’s biggest Public Relations Group ([[Bell Pottinger]], [[Good Relations]], [[Harvard]], [[Insight]], [[Resonate]], [[Ozone]], [[De Facto]], [[MMK]], [[Rare and Traffic]]); it also owns research and consultation group ([[OLR]] and [[SMART]]) and [[VCCP]] as part of an advertising and marketing services group, including specialist agencies in financial services ([[Teamspirit]]) and in property marketing ([[TTA]]) and in Contract Publishing ([[Rare]]).
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The business consists of four divisions; public relations, advertising and marketing, sports marketing and insight and engagement. Chime works with over 600 major UK and international brands, governments, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, charities, not-for-profit organisations, professional service firms and wealthy celebrities.
  
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==Controversies==
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In 2010 the [[Guardian]] revealed that PR companies including [[Chime Communications]] were receiving as much as £2 million for "reputation laundering" for government regimes in Saudi Arabia, Rwanda and Kazakhstan. The Kremlin, Sri Lanka and Zambia were exposed as Chime clients.  Lord [[Tim Bell]] the chair of Chime and [[Bell Pottinger Communications]] defended the firm: “If people want to communicate their argument we take the view that they are allowed to do so.” <ref> The Drum, [http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2010/08/04/london-based-pr-firms-stand-accused-reputation-laundering London based PR firms stand accused of reputation laundering] 4th August 2010, accessed 14th December 2011 </ref>
  
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Chime is part owned by [[WPP]]
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==Board of Directors==
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Lord [[Tim Bell]] - Chairman | [[Piers Pottinger]] - Deputy Chairman | [[Christopher Satterthwaite]] - Group Chief Executive | [[Mark Smith]] - Financial Director | [[Richard Alston]] Director | [[Catherine Bradley]] Director | [[Paul Richardson]] Director | [[Rodger Hughes]] Director
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==Clients==
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Major clients include:  
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*Lord [[Tim Bell]] - Chairman
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*[[Vauxhall]] | [[MFI]] | [[Emirates]] | [[AEA Technology]] | [[McDonalds]] | [[Autoglass]] | [[Vodafone]]
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*[[Piers Pottinger]] - Deputy Chairman
 
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*[[Christopher Satterthwaite]] - Group Chief Executive
 
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*[[Mark Smith]] - Financial Director
 
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Chime consists of three divisions: Public Relations; Advertising and Marketing Services; and Research.
 
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Public Relations Division
 
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:Public relations companies in Chime have been shaping public opinion for decades. We help clients to announce important results and win investor confidence. We help them to shape regulatory environments and lead important public debates. And we help them to win more customers, increase sales and build brands. Increasingly, we help them to communicate better with employees and win the commitment needed to make employees brand advocates wherever they go.
 
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:We also have to save companies from crisis, defend reputations, calm hostile media and prevent unwelcome takeovers. We even advise governments how to win elections and sometimes campaign to change national agendas.
 
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The Public Relations division, together, serve more than 600 major UK and international brands, as well as governments, government departments, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, charities, not-for-profit organisations, professional service firms and famous people.
 
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Major clients include, [[Vauxhall]], [[MFI]], [[Emirates]], [[AEA Technology]], [[McDonalds]], [[Autoglass]] and [[Vodafone]].
 
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===Marketing Services Division===
 
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The Advertising and Marketing Services Division is the fastest growing marketing services group in the UK incorporating the recently acquired VCCP.
 
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The VCCP Group acts as a 'brand integrator' on behalf of its clients offering advertising, direct marketing, digital communication, sponsorship exploitation, point of sale, sales promotion and specialist media planning and buying.The VCCP Group won three IPA Effectiveness Awards in 2004: Gold and Grand Prix for O2 and The Effectiveness Agency of the Year 2004 (billings below £100m). Its clients include Dyson, IPC, Coca-Cola, Hyundai, ING Direct, O2, Texaco and Alfred Dunhill.
 
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Our specialist advertising and marketing services group comprising through the line financial services communications in Teamspirit, through the line property marketing communications in TTA and contract publishing in Rare Publishing. Clients of our specialist group include Scottish Widows, Norwich Union, St James Homes, Ballymore, Somerfield and bmi.
 
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Research Division
 
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The Research Division is made up of Opinion Leader Research and The SMART Company.
 
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Opinion Leader Research is the UK's No. 1 opinion leading research company that specializes in a number of key areas: Understanding and evaluating reputation; Deliberative and collaborative approaches to involve people in decision making; Social and policy research; Consultation with opinion leaders _ professional and social; Understanding and harnessing influence; Thought leadership. We are well known for developing innovative, bespoke solutions for clients that help transform the status quo. We believe that the best research is active, engaging and part of the communications process, not a passive exercise in measurement. Key clients include Accenture, BBC, British Airways, [[BT]], Department of Health and Department for Education and Skills.
 
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The SMART Company is a leading consultancy specialising in Corporate Social Responsibility, community investment and related cross sector partnerships. We take a pragmatic, business focused approach that emphasises CSR as an integral part of mainstream organisational practice. We help clients understand and respond to the CSR agenda; develop strategies and integrate these into business practice; identify, build and evaluate community investment programmes; and measure and report on social, ethical and environmental performance. SMART is increasingly working with other Chime agencies to provide an integrated service, particularly around communications; for our long-standing client HBOS, we joined forces with Good Relations to support HBOS in developing its stakeholder dialogue work. Other retained clients include Scottish & Newcastle and Pearson, and we have well established relationships with [[PwC]], [[Centrica]], [[Lloyds TSB]] and the [[Building Societies Association]].
 
  
 
==Subsidiaries==
 
==Subsidiaries==
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[[BMT]] | [[brand democracy]] | [[Corporate Citizenship]] | [[De Facto]] | [[Essentially]] | [[Facts International]] | [[Fast Track]] | [[Fast Track Sailing]] | [[Full Access Hospitality]] | [[Good Relations]] | [[Good Relations Wales]] | [[Golden Goal]] | [[Harvard]] | [[Harvard Germany]] | [[Icon]] | [[Icon Beta]] | [[Insight Marketing]] | [[Naked Eye]] | [[Open Health]] | [[Open LEC]] | [[Open Minds]] | [[Open Source]] | [[Opinion Leader]] | [[pmplegacy]] | [[Pure Media]] | [[Rare Corporate Design]] |  [[Resonate]] | [[Reynolds Mackenzie]] | [[Search Relations]] | [[SFW]] | [[SomeOne]] | [[Sportseen]] | [[Stuart Higgins Communications]] | [[Teamspirit]] | [[The Sports Business]] | [[Traffic Communications]] | [[Tree London]] | [[tta Group]] | [[VCCP (Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest)]] | [[VCCP Blue]] | [[VCCP Share]] | [[VCCP Health]] | [[VCCP Search]] <ref> Chime Communications, [http://www.chime.plc.uk/our-companies Our Companies] accessed 12th December 2011 </ref>{{Health badge}}
  
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===Former subsidiaries===
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[[Bell Pottinger Business & Brand]] | [[Bell Pottinger Communications USA LLC]] | [[Bell Pottinger Change and Internal Communications]] | [[Bell Pottinger Issues & Crisis]] | [[Bell Pottinger Middle East]] | [[Bell Pottinger - MMK]] | [[Bell Pottinger North]] | [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]] | [[Bell Pottinger Public Relations]] | [[Bell Pottinger Sans Frontières]] | [[Bell Pottinger USA]] | [[Bell Pottinger Public Advocacy]] | [[Pelham Bell Pottinger]] | [[Pelham Bell Pottinger Asia]] |
  
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===Resources===
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*Jamie Doward, [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,841406,00.html Chime urged to sell off its ad business], The Observer, 17 November 2002.
  
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===References===
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BELL POTTINGER CORPORATE and FINANCIAL
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BELL POTTINGER NORTH
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BELL POTTINGER PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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BELL POTTINGER SANS FRONTIERES
 
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BELL POTTINGER SPORT AND SPONSORSHIP
 
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Bell Pottinger USA
 
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*[[QBO Bell Pottinger]]
 
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*[[De Facto]]
 
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*[[De Facto Medica]]
 
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*[[Good Relations]]
 
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GOOD RELATIONS HEALTH CARE
 
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GOOD RELATIONS WALES
 
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HARVARD PUBLIC RELATIONS
 
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HARVARD GmbH
 
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INSIGHT
 
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MMK
 
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OZONEOZONE
 
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RARE CORPORATE DESIGN
 
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RESONATE
 
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SUNESIS
 
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VCCP Group:
 
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VCCP
 
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RARE DIGITAL
 
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SFW
 
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PURE MEDIA
 
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GASOLINE
 
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TEAMSPIRIT
 
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TTA PR/Creative
 
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RARE PUBLISHING
 
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Source [http://www.chime.plc.uk/who_we_are/group_structure.asp]
 
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Jamie Doward 'Chime urged to sell off its ad business' Sunday November 17, 2002 The Observer [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,841406,00.html]
 

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Chime is the holding company for 89 subsidiary companies. Around 20 percent of Chime is owned by WPP. Until May 2012 Chime owned the UK's biggest public relations group, Bell Pottinger Communications.

Background

Chime was established in 1989 by Lord Tim Bell who had been deputy chairman of Lowe Howard-Spink & Bell plc since leaving Saatchi & Saatchi in 1985. [1]

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The business consists of four divisions; public relations, advertising and marketing, sports marketing and insight and engagement. Chime works with over 600 major UK and international brands, governments, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, charities, not-for-profit organisations, professional service firms and wealthy celebrities.

Controversies

In 2010 the Guardian revealed that PR companies including Chime Communications were receiving as much as £2 million for "reputation laundering" for government regimes in Saudi Arabia, Rwanda and Kazakhstan. The Kremlin, Sri Lanka and Zambia were exposed as Chime clients. Lord Tim Bell the chair of Chime and Bell Pottinger Communications defended the firm: “If people want to communicate their argument we take the view that they are allowed to do so.” [2]

Board of Directors

Lord Tim Bell - Chairman | Piers Pottinger - Deputy Chairman | Christopher Satterthwaite - Group Chief Executive | Mark Smith - Financial Director | Richard Alston Director | Catherine Bradley Director | Paul Richardson Director | Rodger Hughes Director

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Clients

Major clients include:

Subsidiaries

BMT | brand democracy | Corporate Citizenship | De Facto | Essentially | Facts International | Fast Track | Fast Track Sailing | Full Access Hospitality | Good Relations | Good Relations Wales | Golden Goal | Harvard | Harvard Germany | Icon | Icon Beta | Insight Marketing | Naked Eye | Open Health | Open LEC | Open Minds | Open Source | Opinion Leader | pmplegacy | Pure Media | Rare Corporate Design | Resonate | Reynolds Mackenzie | Search Relations | SFW | SomeOne | Sportseen | Stuart Higgins Communications | Teamspirit | The Sports Business | Traffic Communications | Tree London | tta Group | VCCP (Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest) | VCCP Blue | VCCP Share | VCCP Health | VCCP Search [3]

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Former subsidiaries

Bell Pottinger Business & Brand | Bell Pottinger Communications USA LLC | Bell Pottinger Change and Internal Communications | Bell Pottinger Issues & Crisis | Bell Pottinger Middle East | Bell Pottinger - MMK | Bell Pottinger North | Bell Pottinger Public Affairs | Bell Pottinger Public Relations | Bell Pottinger Sans Frontières | Bell Pottinger USA | Bell Pottinger Public Advocacy | Pelham Bell Pottinger | Pelham Bell Pottinger Asia |

Resources

References

  1. ↑ Chime Communications, Our Board of Directors, Tim Bell accessed 12th December 2011
  2. ↑ The Drum, London based PR firms stand accused of reputation laundering 4th August 2010, accessed 14th December 2011
  3. ↑ Chime Communications, Our Companies accessed 12th December 2011
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