Jefferson Communications
Jefferson Communication is a lobbying and PR company based in the City of London. It was set up in 2003 by Anthony Painter and Ian Lindsley, formerly of The Communication Group. Their website states that "Our business is influencing people and events on behalf of our clients...By nurturing close, working relationships with decision makers, the media and beyond, we ensure that as our client, you are able to achieve your communications objectives."[1]
Contents
People
Current staff
- James Elder
- David Fanthorpe
- David Felton
- Neil Lindsay
- Ian Lindsley, founder. Lindsley worked for the Labour Party for a year in parliament in 1990 (on secondment from a trade union). In 1991, he set up and ran a corporate and financial PR company in Beijing, China and moved to Santiago, Chile in 1994 to manage exchange programmes with the UK. From 1996 onwards, he was a Director at Shandwick and Burson-Marsteller, then moved to The Communication Group as MD before leaving to start Jefferson in 2004. He has expertise in the property, healthcare, competition, financial services, retail and transport sectors offering strategic communications advice.[2] He is a member of the executive committee of the Great Britain China Centre[3]
- Chris Murray
- Fran O’Leary
- Anthony Painter
- Ben Russell
- David Wild
Former staff
New Labour connection
In 20 April 2004 the head of Jefferson Communications was present at a meeting at Labour's Old Queen Street headquarters, held to address concerns "that big business is falling out of love with the party in favour of the Tories." The meeting discussed plans "to woo leading players in the City of London, as a way of countering Tory moves to rebuild links with the square mile." [4] Other PR companies represented at the meeting were Finsbury and Lexington Communications. The director of the Social Market Foundation also attended.[5]
Clients
Jefferson Communications are known to have lobbied for the Travel Association ABTA and the Federation of Tour Operators at the 2005 Labour Party conference in Brighton,[6] corporate groups subsequently merged in July 2008 to create "a still more powerful and authoritative voice for the travel industry".[7] Contact details for Ian Lindsley of Jefferson Communications communications were included on a January 2005 press release from the London School of Economics[8] which detailed the findings of a two year research project on urban neighbourhoods in London funded by the property developement corporation Minerva PLC - suggesting that Minerva are a client of Jefferson Communications. Other press releases reveal that Jefferson Communications have also represented Legal & General, Land Securities, the Colonnade Group, Westfield and Stanhope PLC.
Contact
- Address:
- Jefferson
- 3 London Wall Buildings
- London
- EC2M 5PD
- Phone: +44 (0)20 7256 8912
- Fax: +44 (0)20 7256 9086
- Website: http://www.jeffersoncommunications.co.uk
Notes
- ↑ Jefferson Communications website, What We Do, (accessed 29 August 2008)
- ↑ Jefferson Communications website, accessed Feb 2009
- ↑ GBCC website, accessed Feb 2009
- ↑ Kevin Maguire, 'Labour's 'langoustine offensive' targets Tory defectors in the Square Mile', The Guardian, 23 April 2004
- ↑ Kevin Maguire, 'Labour's 'langoustine offensive' targets Tory defectors in the Square Mile', The Guardian, 23 April 2004
- ↑ Travel Weekly press release, 'Fresh hope for £1 levy', 29 September 2005
- ↑ ABTA Website, About ABTA, (accessed 29 August 2008)
- ↑ LSE press release, [http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/newsAndEvents/archives/2005/UrbanNeighbourhoods_AndDiversity.htm 'Diversity an important factor for those in high density London neighbourhoods finds new LSE research', 11 January 2005
