Browse: Home / chime communications
By Stephen Foster on October 26, 2012
Much muttering in UK adland today about mini-marcoms group Chime Communications’ purchase of (Lord) Sebastian Coe’s sports consultancy company Complete Leisure Group for a reported £12m. Coe (left), who was chairman of the London Olympics, owns 90 per cent of the shares. Coalition government foreign secretary William Hague, Coe’s former boss when Coe was a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR | Tagged chime communications, gulliford consulting, locog, london olympics, Lord Coe, Simon Gulliford, sports marketing, William Hague
By Stephen Foster on May 29, 2012
WPP is to buy a majority stake in French digital data and campaign technology marketing group Predictys. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Grenoble, Predictys has a co-operative database which includes information from 140m opted-in consumers sourced from about 25 partners. Most of its clients are affiliation networks that use it as a third-party provider [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR, Research | Tagged adam & eve, agm, chime communications, comparethemarket, coors, data, ddb london, easyJet, france, grenoble, grey, Hugh Baillie, JWT, kantar, kbm, Lord Bell, ogilvy, omnicom, pay package, Piers Pottinger, predictys, rkcr/y&r, Sir Martin Sorrell, vccp, WPP
By Angie Dean on May 18, 2012
Here’s some intriguing intelligence from the London Evening Standard’s City Diarist. The Channel 4 press office has just leaked to me details of the next Celebrity Come Dine With Me. I can’t wait. You must know the programme. Four or five people who live in the same town take it in turns each night of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged buyout plans, celebrity come dine with me, Channel 4, chime communications, city diary, london evening standard, Lord Bell, Lord Chadlington, Piers Pottinger, saatchi & saatchi, Sir Martin Sorrell
By Stephen Foster on May 9, 2012
It has indeed been a busy old day at Chime Communications’ AGM as chairman Lord Bell says the board has agreed his plan to buy out the Bell Pottinger PR businesses (it’s not clear if the two WPP board directors voted for or against) at the same time as he issued a profit warning, citing [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR | Tagged advertising, agency pitch, Bell Pottinger, chime communications, easygroup, easyJet, golden goal, Lord Bell, Piers Pottinger, pr agencies, profit warning, Richard Shackleton, Simon Gulliford, sports marketing, Stelios, vccp
By Stephen Foster on May 9, 2012
Lord Bell’s London-based marcoms group Chime Communications is taking a big bet on sports marketing and has just announced an agreement to buy 60 per cent of Brazil’s Golden Goal for an initial £2.4m. With earnouts in 2014 and 2017 the deal could be worth a maximum £9.5m to Golden Goal founders and shareholders Cadu [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR | Tagged agm, Bell Pottinger, boyout plans, brazil, Cadu Ferreira, chime communications, chime sports marketing, easyjet pitch, essentially, fast track, golden goal, Lord Bell, Mauro Correa, olympics, Piers Pottinger, PR, Simon Gulliford, sports marketing, world cup
By Staff on March 30, 2012
WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell isn’t a fan of Lord Bell (pictured) and Piers Pottinger’s plan to buy out the Bell Pottinger PR business from Chime Communications, the PR-based marcoms business Bell chairs. Sorrell has described the plan thus: “It isn’t logical and if you start to dismember the management of it, where does that end?” [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, PR | Tagged advertising, Bell Pottinger, chime communications, increased share stake, Lord Bell, Piers Pottinger, PR, Sir Martin Sorrell, sports marketing companies, us government accounts, vccp, WPP
By Stuart Smith on March 8, 2012
Summing up a satisfactory set of annual results, which had seen Chime pre-tax-profits climb 16 per cent, chairman Lord Bell (pictured) concluded: “The group is well positioned for the future with a very positive year ahead for sports marketing in particular.” But not with me on board, he might have added sotto voce, and not [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News, PR | Tagged Bell Pottinger, chime communications, fidelity, jp morgan, Lord Bell, management buyout, olympics, Piers Pottinger, Sir Martin Sorrell, sports marketing, Stuart Smith, us pr contract, world cup, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 7, 2012
Sir Martin Sorrell (pictured), whose WPP marcoms group owns 18 per cent of old colleague Lord Bell’s Chime Communications, says he opposes the plan by Lord Bell and other senior managers including Piers Pottinger, to buy out parts of the company’s PR division. “I think it sets a terrible precedent,” Sorrell says. “It isn’t logical, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, PR | Tagged 2011 results, Bell Pottinger, chime communications, fast track, Lord Bell, Piers Pottinger, saatchi & saatchi, Sir Martin Sorrell, sports marketing, us government, vccp, WPP
By Stuart Smith on February 1, 2012
How ironic, you might think, that a momentous development at the UK’s leading PR company should only come to light through an untimely leak. Lord Bell (pictured) and Piers Pottinger, respectively chairman and deputy chairman of Chime Communications, are plotting their exit from the publicly-quoted company by means of a £20m buyout of part of [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Bell Pottinger, chime communications, Chris Satterthwaite, london olympics, Lord Bell, management buy-out, Margaret Thatcher, mark kleinberg, Piers Pottinger, sky news, sports marketing, Stuart Smith, Tim Bell, vccp
By Staff on December 7, 2011
Well this is all a bit peculiar and no mistake. The Daily Telegraph alleges that Lord Bell’s PR and lobbying company Bell Pottinger advised its client Rebekah Brooks (pictured), former editor of the News of the World, Sun and then CEO of News International, about which particular police station she should turn up to be [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged arrests, Bell Pottinger, business secretary, chime communications, Daily Telegraph, David Wilson, independent sting, Lord Bell, News International, news of the world, political lobbying, Rebekah Brooks, Tim Bell, Tim Collins, Vince Cable
Recent Comments