Last time I mentioned the importance of understanding ‘the role of advertising’: I should have written the role of THE advertising – the ad or campaign in question. The role of advertising is to sell: a product, a service, an ...
Read More »Founder Lord Bell says that collapsed PR firm Bell Pottinger still owes him £300,000
PR firm Bell Pottinger has finally collapsed into administration with lots of debts outstanding, including to founder Lord Bell who sold his stake in the business back to the company in a £2.5m deal when he resigned last year. Bell ...
Read More »Scandal-hit Bell Pottinger faces final reckoning
Bell Pottinger, the big london PR firm torpedoed by its leading role in the Gupta/Oakbay Capital scandal in South Africa, will go out of business next week unless a last minute buyer is found. Its successful Asian business says it ...
Read More »Bell Pottinger scandal shines harsh light on new-style PR
PR firm Bell Pottinger, found guilty by all parties, including the investigation it commissioned from a law firm, of engaging in unethical practices for the Gupta brothers in South Africa, has been drummed out of the Public Relations Consultants Association ...
Read More »Bell Pottinger scandal worsens as lawyers join in
Bell Pottinger CEO James Henderson (left) has resigned in the wake of the Gupta scandal – the UK PR firm has been accused on fomenting a fake news scandal to bolster the fortunes of the Indian Gupta family in South ...
Read More »Now Bell Pottinger faces industry sanction over alleged dirty dealings in South Africa
When your (highly paid) job is to work behind the scenes it’s usually commercial suicide to become the story. This is exactly what is happening to London PR firm Bell Pottinger – whether or not it amounts to commercial suicide ...
Read More »War breaks out at Bell Pottinger over Gupta campaign
Britain’s biggest PR firm, Bell Pottinger, 25 per cent owned by Chime Communications in which WPP is a substantial shareholder, is embroiled in a life-threatening row over its work for the controversial South African Gupta brothers who have prospered mightily ...
Read More »Lord Bell’s memoir ‘Right or Wrong’ – is Tim Bell really Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic Mr Fox?’
The Fantastic Mr Fox, you may recall, is a Roald Dahl story about a fox, a much-decried species in the English countryside, who triumphs over his adversaries (boorish humans) through a mixture of cunning, wit and charm. And, it has ...
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