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Chime in another controversial deal as it buys Lord Coe's sports company for £12m

Chime in another controversial deal as it buys Lord Coe’s sports company for £12m

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

Y&R 'Malvinas' ad creative boss Martin Mercado bounces back with Landia spot for Coca-Cola

Y&R ‘Malvinas’ ad creative boss Martin Mercado bounces back with Landia spot for Coca-Cola

By Stephen Foster on June 14, 2012

Here’s a great Latin American ad for Coca-Cola, done without an agency it seems. And who’s the boy behind it, well none other than our old friend Martin Mercado, the creative director of Y&R Argentina who rattled the cages of WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell, British foreign secretary William Hague and many others with his [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged coke ad, falklands islands, landia, malvinas, Martin Mercado, olympics, production company, Sir Martin Sorrell, William Hague, WPP, y&r argentina

Pity poor Craig Oliver, the Tories' new PR man -  it's just sex scandals all the way

Pity poor Craig Oliver, the Tories’ new PR man – it’s just sex scandals all the way

By Stephen Foster on October 12, 2011

The Liam Fox affair drags on, the UK coalition government defence secretary remains the subject of an internal investigation about his relations with close friend and best man at his wedding Adam Werritty. Werritty has masqueraded as an official adviser to Fox, attending loads of meetings with the defence secretary, some abroad, although he was [...]

Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Adam Werritty, affairs, Boris Johnson, coalition government, Craig Oliver, David Cameron, david laws, defence secretary, Dorothy Macmillan, Edwina Currie, Harold Macmillan, John Major, John Profumo, Liam Fox, Lord Boothby, Lord Lambton, Norman Lamont, Norman Levy, Olga Polizzi, pr man, sex scandals, Tory Party, uk pm, Viscount Jellicoe, William Hague

Prince Andrew scandal is yet another case of celebrity endorsement gone wrong

Prince Andrew scandal is yet another case of celebrity endorsement gone wrong

By Stephen Foster on March 7, 2011

The only difference, of course, is that in this instance, the wayward Prince is endorsing the country. Now that the cat’s out of the bag in as much as large parts of the UK press are cheerfully airing dirty linen about Prince Andrew that they’ve known about and sat on for years it looks unlikely [...]

Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged David Cameron, Duchess of York, Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, Tiger Woods, trade envoy, Vince Cable, Wayne Rooney, William Hague

World exclusive! David Cameron hires official photographer to cover up his bald patch

World exclusive! David Cameron hires official photographer to cover up his bald patch

By Stephen Foster on November 3, 2010

All the UK media (and doubtless others elsewhere) have been wittering on today about UK prime minister David Cameron’s decision to hire a personal photographer, one Andrew Parsons, and film-maker, Nicky Woodhouse at £35K a year each from the country’s hard-pressed public finances. And indeed they should, but they’re all missing the point. The reason [...]

Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andrew Parsons, baldness, David Cameron, Michael Green, Nicky Woodhouse, William Hague

Torrent of sleaze hits Cameron government, News of the World

Torrent of sleaze hits Cameron government, News of the World

By Stephen Foster on September 3, 2010

UK coalition government prime minister David Cameron may need to find himself a new foreign secretary and a new director of communications over the weekend. Foreign secretary William Hague, de facto deputy leader of the Tories and a former leader himself, is coming under fierce pressure for showing a “lack of judgement” over his relationship [...]

Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, coalition government, David Cameron, news of the world, William Hague

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