Fleishman-Hillard

Fleishman-Hillard ((http://www.fleishmaneurope.com/Cities/Edinburgh.html)) is one of the biggest PR companies in the world with over 80 offices worldwide. Its parent company is the Omnicom group Inc ((http://www.omnicomgroup.com/)), which is a huge conglomerate that describes itself as a "global leader in Marketing and Global Communications".

The Fleishman-Hillard office in Edinburgh was originally set up as GPC in 1996 ahead of the establishment of a Scottish Parliament in 1999.

They boast that "Within Scotland, we are unrivalled in the depth and breadth of our knowledge on the detail of devolution and how the Scottish Parliament really operates in practice".

They go on to say:

"We pride ourselves on our understanding of how the Scottish political, policy, and media agendas impacts the rest of the United Kingdom and companies and organisations and their businesses. We can make a difference to our clients' business objectives by combining the right resources, people, and skills with a clear perspective and an innovative approach to any communications challenge".

They conclude by stating:

"Our team is drawn from a range of career backgrounds, bringing together political experience, policy development insight, strategic communications, event management, and research skills. The common factors among the team are our commitment to our clients and assurance that we will keep their needs at the top of our agenda".

And finally:

"To make ourselves as valuable to our clients as they are to us."®

One way that they may make themselves valuable to their clients, in Scotland, and keep their needs at the top of their agenda, is by attending Scottish parliament cross-party group meetings that may affect their clients. For example, the cross-party food group was attended by two employees, Jenni Wilkie and Ben Bosely Walker, in February of 2005. This may have something to do with Tesco being a client of theirs.

See ((http://www.appc.org.uk/registers/APPC_register_Dec04-May05.pdf))

They also have a presence on the Civil Nuclear Group, in the form of Rachael Robertson. She has joined though saying that she is from the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive, (NIREX), and not as an employee from Fleishman-Hillard. She is also on the cross party group for Diabetes. This time she is listed as working for GPC, rather than Fleishman-Hillard. Their involvement in this group is unsurprising given them having Pfizer as a client. Who, according to them, are now, amongst MSPS, "the most favoured pharmaceutical company operating in Scotland today", due in no small part to the efforts of Fleishman-Hillard of course. An employee of GPC, Ben Collins is also listed as being a member of the Oil group, with still no update ackowledging the change of name and ownership to Fleishman-Hillard. While finally Jenni Wilkie is listed as being a member of the Tackling Debt group, but yet again as being an employee of GPC and not of Fleishman Hillard.

As can be seen therefore it is clear that Fleishman-Hillard are busy gleaning valuable information and building important contacts in areas of strategic importance to their clients. Though they have not updated the change in company name from GPC TO Fleishman-Hillard, while their involvement in the Civil Nuclear group is declared as them being the client themselves (Nirex) rather than a representative of the client

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Fleishman-Hillard

Address(es) in UK

Fleishman-Hillard 40 Long Acre London WC2E 9LG

Fleishman-Hillard 3rd Floor, 14 Charlotte Square Edinburgh EH2 4DJ

Contact Tel: 020 7395 7171 Kevin Bell Fax: 020 7395 7181 e-mail: kevin.bell@fleishmaneurope.com Tel: 0131 226 2102 Sarah Chisnall Fax: 0131 225 9859 e-mail: chisnals@fleishmaneurope.com

Website:

http://www.fleishmaneurope.com

Offices outside UK

Germany, USA, Belgium, Canada

Staff (employed and freelance) providing consultancy services 31.11.04 to 31.5.05

London Edinburgh Kevin Bell (MD) Andrew Lappin Carol Aitken Claire Ashbridge-Thomlinson Gavin Megaw Sarah Chisnall Scott Colvin Chris Mockler Ian Price Rachael Cunningham Richard Mollet Rachael Robertson Scott Dodsworth Ben Thornton Jenni Wilkie Eddy Evans Dirk Van Eeden Sheila Gunn Nick Williams Julie Harris Bernard Harrison Jamie Holyer

Fee-Paying clients for whom UK consultancy services provided 31.11.04 to 31.5.05

London

Abbott Annington Homes Alcan American Pharmaceutical Group Assoc of Optometrists Atomic Energy Canada Ltd BCCCA Bayer BP British Broadcasting Corporation Bristol Myers Squibb Biosite BMS British Music Rights British Sky Broadcasting Visit Britain (BTA)

Marks & Spencer National Air Traffic Services News International Novartis Nutrition 21 Paling Waters Parkinson Disease Pfizer Proctor & Gamble Uk Royal Automobile Club Rio Tinto Roche Diagnostics - Europe Richmond Pharmacology Scottish Power Shape Switchco Tata Consultancy Services TEG

Edinburgh

Alcan Diageo GB Diageo SSS HBOS Macmillan Cancer Relief Marks & Spencer plc Mobile Operators' Assoc. National Air Traffic Services Ltd Nirex Parkinsons Disease Society of UK Pfizer Provident Financial Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland

� Budgens / Musgrave Cadbury Caterpillar CEC CCPR Channel 4 Chiron Conoco Phillips Discovery Channel DHL Emerson Eminence Capital Fellowes Ford Flybe Gate Gourmet Harley Medical Group HBOS Kings Fund Kenco Kraft

Timberland Verigen Visit Britain Vodafone Woolworths Wyeth SMA

SELECT – Scottish Electrical Contractors and Electronics Industry Association Royal Bank of Canada ScottishPower Stirling Park LLP Tesco 3 VAT Liaison Vodafone Western Ferries

Fee-Paying Clients for whom only UK monitoring services provided 1.6.04 to 31.11.04

London Edinburgh

Association of Optometrists Roche Diagnostics

BBC

British Tourist Authority (Visit Britain)

BskyB

Cleanaway

Discovery Channel

Channel 4

King’s Fund

News International

Radio Authority

Telewest Broadband