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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 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 Stephen Foster on May 3, 2012
Lord Bell’s Chime Comunications marcoms company has endured a torrid few months with various shareholders, including 20 per cent holder WPP, opposing his lordship’s plan to buy out the Bell Pottinger PR business and rumblings of discontent over the company’s decision to buy Simon Gulliford’s marketing consultancy for the best part of £2m. These matters [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News, PR | Tagged agm, buyout plans, consultancy deal, easyJet, Lord Bell, mulller, Piers Pottinger, Simon Gulliford, tbwa, us department of defense, vccp, WPP, wunderful stuff
By Stephen Foster on October 12, 2011
Lord Bell, chairman of Chime Communications, has written to me regarding our story about Chime’s acquisition of Gulliford Consulting for a maximum price of £4.75m. We noted that Simon Gulliford, former marketing head of Barclays and Standard Life, had been a consultant on the £50m easyJet pitch, working for new easyJet marketing director Peter Duffy. [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged barclays, chime communications, easyJet, gulliford consulting, Lord Bell, Peter Duffy, Simon Gulliford, standard life, Tim Bell, vccp
By Stephen Foster on January 13, 2011
UK budget airline Easyjet is reviewing its creative account at Publicis following a change of top management while furniture megastore DFS is doing the same to its whopper £92m media account, the eighth-biggest in the UK according to Campaign. And, just to create a trio, price comparison site moneysupermarket.com is reviewing its creative account even [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Alan Leighton, Asda, brilliant media, Carolyn McCall, Chris Wilkins, comparethemarket, dare, dfs, easyJet, GoCompare, john Prescott, lord kirkham, mars, Maurice Levy, meerkats, moneysupermarket, Omid Djalili, Paul Troy, Peter Duffy, publicis, Richard Baker, Sian Vickers, Simon Gulliford
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