Bell Pottinger Good Relations

This article is part of the Nuclear Spin project of Spinwatch.

Bell Pottinger Good Relations is a subsidiary of Chime Communications.

People

David Hill, the former Labour Party Director of Communications from 1991-97, is a Director of Good Relations, which he joined shortly after the 1997 election. Hill returned to the Labour Party HQ at Millbank on loan from Good Relations, as a senior Press Spokesman for the 2001 election campaign. Between 1985 and 1993 Good Relations was headed by Peter Bradley, who became a Labour MP in the 1997 elections.

Clients

Good Relations clients include

• Corus
• Monsanto, the GM food company,
• Nestle
• Nirex
• Tesco

Nuclear Spinners

Since 2003, Good Relations has been paid £375,000 by Nirex (the government-controlled agency that oversees storage of radioactive waste) to provide "professional consultancy and support in the area of media relations and corporate communications."

Contact

Good Relations, Holborn Gate, 26 Southampton Buildings, London WC2A. Website: http://www.goodrelations.co.uk

Resources

• Good Relations, PRCA Yearbook 2004