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==Scottish operation==
 
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The Fleishman-Hillard office in Edinburgh was originally set up as [[GPC Market Access Scotland]] (subsequently [[GPC Scotland]]0 in 1996 ahead of the establishment of a Scottish Parliament in 1999.
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See [[Fleishman-Hillard (Edinburgh)]]
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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:
 
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:"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".
 
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They conclude by stating:
 
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:"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".
 
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And finally: "To make ourselves as valuable to our clients as they are to us." <ref>[http://www.fleishmaneurope.com/Cities/Edinburgh.html]</ref>
 
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One service they provide for their clients is to attend 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. 
 
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See <ref>[http://www.appc.org.uk/registers/APPC_register_Dec04-May05.pdf]</ref>
 
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Another client is Pfizer and therefore it comes as no surprise that Rachel Roberston (see below) is on the Cross Party Group for Diabetes, altohugh she is listed as working for GPC, rather than [[Fleishman-Hillard]].
 
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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]].
 
  
 
==Nuclear spin activity==
 
==Nuclear spin activity==

Revision as of 08:36, 25 April 2008

Fleishman Hillard London Office above Covent Garden tube station

Background

Fleishman-Hillard [1] is one of the biggest PR companies in the world with over 80 offices worldwide. Its parent company is the Omnicom group Inc [2], which is a huge conglomerate that describes itself as a "global leader in Marketing and Global Communications". It has absorbed the group of firms formerly trading under the name GPC International

Global operation

Fleishman-Hillard operates around the globe through a variety of networks:

UK activities

In April 2005 Kevin Maguire wrote of F-H distributing a glossy brochure to their clients sketching the likely changes that could be expected under a Labour government led by Gordon Brown. "Warning multinational bosses that the next Labour premier's philosophy is built on - wait for it - equity, the booklet predicts Brown will centralise power around himself," Maguire wrote.[1]

In June 2005, Kevin Bell from the UK arm of Fleishman-Hillard spoke at a one-day conference in London called ID Cards: Towards Procurement and Implementation. The title of his talk was "Achieving public acceptance".[2]


Scottish operation

See Fleishman-Hillard (Edinburgh)

Nuclear spin activity

Rachael Robertson used to be on the Cross Party Group on the Civil Nuclear Industry. She was listed as being from the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive, Nirex, and not as an employee from Fleishman-Hillard. Robertson has been replaced by Ian Price who is also listed as being from Nirex. Coincidentally there is also an Ian Price listed as working at Fleishman-Hillard's Edinburgh office.[3]

Lobbying for Turkey

On 10 October 2007, the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs passed Resolution 106, which accuses the Turkish rulers in 1915 of genocide. There was an intensive on behalf of the Turkish government to sway the committee, described by Ali H. Aslan as follows:

Both the Turkish and the US governments strongly opposed the resolution and were joined by DLA Piper, the Livingstone Group, public relations company Fleishman-Hillard and other companies

that officially conducted lobbying activities on behalf of Turkey as well as by big corporations that have sizable commercial deals with Turkey such as Boeing and BP.[4]

Clients

  • government of Turkey

Scotland

Nirex Pfizer

External Resources

  • ↑ [3]
  • ↑ [4]
  • ↑ [5]
  • ↑ Ali H. Aslan, How did last-minute hopes turn into disappointment?, Zaman, 10 October 2007.
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