Fleishman-Hillard

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:

• Allyn & Company
• Fleishman-Hillard Government Relations
• GPC Public Affairs
• GMMB
• Mercury Public Affairs
• Strat@comm
• VOX Global Mandate

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.

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".

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 Robertson has been replaced by Ian Price who is also listed as being from Nirex.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.

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.

Clients

• government of Turkey

Scotland

Nirex Pfizer

External Resources

• GPC International UK Staff and Clients 1.12.03 to 31.5.04
• Fleishman-Hillard UK Staff and Clients 31.11.04 to 31.5.05
• Fleishman-Hillard UK Staff and Clients 1 June 2005 to 30 Nov 2005
• Fleishman-Hillard, PRCA Yearbook 2004

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Ali H. Aslan, How did last-minute hopes turn into disappointment?, Zaman, 10 October 2007.