Chime Communications Plc

Chime is the holding company for the UK's biggest Public Relations Group, Bell Pottinger Communications. It owns several research and consultant groups. In turn, Chime is part-owned by WPP and consists of three divisions; public relations advertising and marketing. They work with more than 600 major UK and international brands, as well as governments, government departments, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, charities, not-for-profit organisations, professional service firms and famous people.

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According to its website:

Public relations companies in Chime have been shaping public opinion for decades. We help clients to announce important results and win investor confidence. We help them to shape regulatory environments and lead important public debates. And we help them to win more customers, increase sales and build brands. Increasingly, we help them to communicate better with employees and win the commitment needed to make employees brand advocates wherever they go.

We also have to save companies from crisis, defend reputations, calm hostile media and prevent unwelcome takeovers. We even advise governments how to win elections and sometimes campaign to change national agendas.

Executive Directors

Lord Tim Bell - Chairman | Piers Pottinger - Deputy Chairman | Christopher Satterthwaite - Group Chief Executive | Mark Smith - Financial Director

Clients

Major clients include:

• Vauxhall | MFI | Emirates | AEA Technology | McDonalds | Autoglass | Vodafone

Subsidiaries

Bell Pottinger Business & Brand | Bell Pottinger Communications USA LLC | Bell Pottinger Change and Internal Communications | Bell Pottinger Issues & Crisis | Bell Pottinger Middle East | Bell Pottinger - MMK | Bell Pottinger North | Bell Pottinger Public Affairs | Bell Pottinger Public Relations | Bell Pottinger Sans Frontières | Bell Pottinger USA | Bell Pottinger Public Advocacy | BMT | brand democracy | Corporate Citizenship | De Facto | Essentially | Facts International | Fast Track | Fast Track Sailing | Full Access Hospitality | Good Relations | Good Relations Wales | Golden Goal | Harvard | Harvard Germany | Icon | Icon Beta | Insight Marketing | Naked Eye | Open Health | Open LEC | Open Minds | Open Source | Opinion Leader | Pelham Bell Pottinger | Pelham Bell Pottinger Asia | pmplegacy | Pure Media | Rare Corporate Design | Resonate | Reynolds Mackenzie | Search Relations | SFW | SomeOne | Sportseen | Stuart Higgins Communications | Teamspirit | The Sports Business | Traffic Communications | Tree London | tta Group | VCCP (Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest) | VCCP Blue | VCCP Share | VCCP Health | VCCP Search

Resources

• Jamie Doward, Chime urged to sell off its ad business, The Observer, 17 November 2002.