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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a pretty impossible question to answer, as we know more about agencies in the UK and US than we do in many other markets. But it’s still worth having a go. In the UK Bartle Bogle Hegarty had an ...

Crispin Porter creative director Craig Miller, one of the people behind the celebrated Domino’s Pizza ‘turnaround’ in the US, is joining Chime Communications-owned VCCP in the UK. Five years ago Domino received a huge amount of flak after a viral ...

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 ...

Beer accounts have always been the most sought-after creative brief (you can indulge your laddish tendencies with the client’s wholehearted approval) but there some especially good examples around at the moment, like Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam for Heineken and VCCP for Molson ...

Which is presumably one of the things new agency VCCP was aiming for. Although it wouldn’t have known what the new BA campaign from Bartle Bogle Hegarty was going to look like it was a safe bet it wouldn’t take ...

I have been quite surprised at the debate sparked by the new British Airways campaign and the reaction I’ve had already to my previous comments on the work. There is a clear division of quite strong opinion; one camp is ...