Chime Communications Plc
Chime is the holding company for the UK's biggest Public Relations Group (Bell Pottinger, Good Relations, Harvard, Insight, Resonate, Ozone, De Facto, MMK, Rare and Traffic); it also owns research and consultation group (OLR and SMART) and VCCP as part of an advertising and marketing services group, including specialist agencies in financial services (Teamspirit) and in property marketing (TTA) and in Contract Publishing (Rare). Chime is part owned by WPP
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Executive Directors
- Lord Tim Bell - Chairman
- Piers Pottinger - Deputy Chairman
- Christopher Satterthwaite - Group Chief Executive
- Mark Smith - Financial Director
Chime consists of three divisions: Public Relations; Advertising and Marketing Services; and Research. Public Relations Division
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.
The Public Relations division, together, serve 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.
Major clients include, Vauxhall, MFI, Emirates, AEA Technology, McDonalds, Autoglass and Vodafone.
Subsidiaries
Public Relations Division
- Bell Pottinger Corporate and Financial
- Bell Pottinger North
- Bell Pottinger Public Affairs
- Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres
- Bell Pottinger Sport and Sponsorship
- Bell Pottinger USA
- QBO Bell Pottinger
- De Facto
- De Facto Medica
- Good Relations
- Good Relations Health Care
- Good Relations Wales
- Harvard Public Relations
- Harvard GmbH
- Insight
- MMK
- Ozoneozone
- Rare Corporate Design
- Resonate
- Sunesis
- Traffic Advertising
Research division
Advertising and Marketing Services division
- VCCP Group:
- VCCP
- RARE DIGITAL
- SFW
- PURE MEDIA
- GASOLINE
Specialists
- TEAMSPIRIT
- TTA PR/Creative
- RARE PUBLISHING
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External links
- Jamie Doward, Chime urged to sell off its ad business, The Observer, 17 November 2002.
