McEwan Purvis

McEwan-Purvis is a lobbying and PR firm set up by Sam McEwan and Jeremy Purvis

According to his biography on the Scottish parliament website: Jeremy Purvis MSP Career History: 2001 - 2003 Company Director McEwan Purvis (Strategic communications consultancy)

1998-2001 GJW Scotland]] (Parliamentary affairs company)

Staff/Shareholders

• Sam McEwan
• William Rennie
• Jayne Struthers
• Jacqueline Wilson

Clients

McEwan-Purvis does not disclose itw clients on its website. Indeed it notes that 'McEwan Purvis' staff are experienced at handling sensitive issues and confidential information. Keeping pre-launch campaigns under wraps is familiar territory, as is working on market and politically sensitive projects.

We have wide experience of planning, co-ordinating and implementing product and campaign launches and working on competition cases - all of which require the greatest sensitivity and discretion.'

Nevertheless, it leaves traces on the web. Among its clients are:

• Raytheon (Arms manufacturer - makers of the bombs dropped by the US on the Baghdad market in March 2003) [1].
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Scottish branch) [2].
• Royal Society of Chemistry [3].
• Association for Science Education in Scotland [4].

Employees of McEwan Purvis such as Jayne Struthers have attended they the cross party group on Sexual health in the Scottish Parliament [5].