Hanover Communications
Hanover Communications is a UK based PR firm founded in 1998 by Charles Lewington, the firm was known as Media Strategy untill 2007.
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'Cash for Access'
Hanover was criticised in September 2007 in what was dubbed a 'cash for access' story. A strategy document that Hanover had produced suggested it could organise a trip to Downing Street as part of a £181,000 bid to run the Medical Technology Group, a coalition of industry and patient groups linked to the Association of British Insurers (ABHI).
According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph, the pitch suggested that Hanover would try to secure a picture with Gordon Brown for £5,100. It also claims that it would seek access to Dawn Primarolo, the Paymaster General. The package was offered for Medical Technology Week, in which a group of patients visits the Treasury, Department of Health and No 10. “We will work to secure photocalls with ministers. The key photocall will be with Gordon Brown,” it says. A document sent to the ABPI also mentions Nicola Murphy, a former adviser to Mr Brown.
Ms Murphy was to join Hanover as an associate director the following month. The pitch says: “As well as . . . a five-year spell in the Treasury, Nicola has been working in the Prime Minister’s private parliamentary office for 12 months handling Gordon Brown’s leadership election.”[1]
People
- Charles Lewington
- Andrew Harrison
- Sarah Richards
- James Gurling
- Josh Arnold-Forster
- Robert Sullivan
- Alessandra McKenna
- Louise Fish
- Alexa Knight
- Enda Joyce
- Sarah Pearson
- Mark Saxon
- Laura Chisholm
- Rebecca Simon[2]
Clients
- Alliance Medical
- American Pharmaceutical Group
- Apposite Capital
- Association of British Healthcare Industries
- Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries
- AstraZeneca
- Bavarian Nordic
- Cholesterol UK
- Cancer Partners UK
- Cass Business School
- Celerant Consulting
- Diageo
- Defence Medical Welfare Service
- Deltex Medical
- Dimbleby Cancer Care
- Dr Foster Intelligence
- DMWS - The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service
- Edap
- Fortis
- Global Value
- Hertfordshire Oil Storage Ltd
- Hospital Corporation of America
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
- HEART UK
- Hutchison 3G (UK)
- Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
- Intelligent Finance
- Kepner-Tregoe
- Lockheed Martin
- Menzies Aviation
- Mizuho International
- Monitor
- Monterrico Metals
- Nationwide
- Nationwide Commercial
- Nikko Investments
- pfeg
- Police Federation
- The Portland Hospital for Woman and Children
- The Priory Group
- Rio Tinto
- Royal British Legion
- SafeHands for Mothers
- SAGA
- Schering-Plough
- Shell Foundation
- Social Enterprise Coalition
- NHS Cancer Screening Programmes
- NHS Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Screening Programme
- Ramsay Healthcare UK
- Teachers' TV
- The Leadership Centre for Local Government
- Unilever
- United Health Europe
- Wates
- Wyeth
Affiliations
Contact, References and Resources
Contact
- Website: www.hanovercomms.com
Resources
References
- ↑ Sam Coates, "Denial from Downing St as lobbyist offers trips to No 10", The Times, 24 September 2007, accessed 28 November 2008
- ↑ The Week in Lobbying, Hanover has hired a new senior consultant from Labour Friends of Israel. Rebecca Simon makes the switch to Charles Lewington's agency, having been deputy director at LFI. (Accessed: 13 October 2008).
- ↑ Hanover Website Our people accessed 24th September 2008
- ↑ Hanover Website What we do accessed 24th September 2008
- ↑ Co-Sponsored event: talk by Jeremy Hunt, 29 October 2008
