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'''GPC Market Access Group Ltd''' was a Brussels-based PR and government lobbying firm and the centre of the 'cash-for-access' [[LobbyGate]] scandal. Its employee, [[Derek Draper]], hit the headlines in 1998 for allegedly offering companies access to high-level cabinet ministers. | '''GPC Market Access Group Ltd''' was a Brussels-based PR and government lobbying firm and the centre of the 'cash-for-access' [[LobbyGate]] scandal. Its employee, [[Derek Draper]], hit the headlines in 1998 for allegedly offering companies access to high-level cabinet ministers. | ||
| − | At the time, GPC was owned by [[Countrywide Porter Novelli]] (part of the [[Omnicom Group]]). GPC's parent company, [[GPC International]], merged with [[Omnicom]]'s [[Fleishman-Hillard International Communications]] in 2001, and now operates as the [[Fleishman-Hillard]] public affairs brand outside the United States. | + | At the time, GPC was owned by [[Countrywide Porter Novelli]] (part of the [[Omnicom Group]]). GPC's parent company, [[GPC International]], merged with [[Omnicom]]'s [[Fleishman-Hillard International Communications]] in 2001, and now operates as the [[Fleishman-Hillard]] public affairs brand outside the United States. In March 1998 prior to the Lobbygate story breaking GPC took over the lobbying firm [[Prima Europe]],<ref>IAN DARBY, '[http://prweek.co.uk/uk/news/search/93206// STOP PRESS: GPC Market Access makes Harrison CEO]' ''PR Week'' UK, 06 March 1998, 00:00am </ref> set up by [[Roger Liddle]] (who went on to beome an advisor to [[Tony Blair]] at Downing Street and was central to the Lobbygate allegations. Liddle later turned up as [[Peter Mandelson]]'s Chef De Cabinet when Mandelson became a European Commissioner). |
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GPC Market Access Group Ltd was a Brussels-based PR and government lobbying firm and the centre of the 'cash-for-access' LobbyGate scandal. Its employee, Derek Draper, hit the headlines in 1998 for allegedly offering companies access to high-level cabinet ministers.
At the time, GPC was owned by Countrywide Porter Novelli (part of the Omnicom Group). GPC's parent company, GPC International, merged with Omnicom's Fleishman-Hillard International Communications in 2001, and now operates as the Fleishman-Hillard public affairs brand outside the United States. In March 1998 prior to the Lobbygate story breaking GPC took over the lobbying firm Prima Europe,[1] set up by Roger Liddle (who went on to beome an advisor to Tony Blair at Downing Street and was central to the Lobbygate allegations. Liddle later turned up as Peter Mandelson's Chef De Cabinet when Mandelson became a European Commissioner).
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Subsidiaries
It had a Scottish office known as GPC Market Access Scotland, subsequently GPC Scotland.
Clients
Former Staff
Resources, Notes
External Resources
- "Fresh questions in lobbyist row ", BBC, July 11, 1998.
- HM Government, Answers to Questions, Hansard, 13 July 1998.
- Fleishman-Hillard International Communications, GPC International joins Fleishman-Hillard family of companies (news release), January 23, 2001
Notes
- ↑ IAN DARBY, 'STOP PRESS: GPC Market Access makes Harrison CEO' PR Week UK, 06 March 1998, 00:00am
