Burson Marsteller

Burson-Marsteller has over the last 12 months at three occasions been forced to step up transparency after critique emerged over its role in establishing and de facto running “the Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis" (on behalf of Aventis), “European Women for HPV Testing� (on behalf of Digene Corporation) and the “Bromine Science and Environmental Forum� (on behalf of major producers of bromine flame retardants). In all these cases, the involvement of the companies – let alone Burson Marsteller – was initially hidden or kept vague. (See Corporate Europe Observatory, House of Mirrors; Burson-Marsteller Brussels lobbying for the bromine industry, January 2005) Source[1]