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Bell Pottinger's origins go back to 1985, when Timothy Bell and Frank Lowe founded Lowe Bell as a subsidiary of Lowe Howard-Spink. Bell and Piers Pottinger bought out Lowe Bell in 1989, and it was subsequently floated in 1994 as Chime Communications plc but retained the name Lowe Bell on some of its subsidiary companies.
Administrator BDO was reported to be pursuing around 40 former Bell Pottinger partners to repay around £4m, [29] with Henderson asked to repay £400,000. [30] In April 2019, BDO said it could bring lawsuits against former Bell Pottinger partners for their involvement in work for Oakbay, which breached partnership agreements. [31]
The Good Relations Group, owned by Chime Communications Limited, has 215 staff, 172 based in the UK. [7] As well as Good Relations, the group also includes agencies Harvard, MMK and Ptarmigan; some regional offices of Bell Pottinger Group were also rebranded as Good Relations following Bell Pottinger's MBO in June 2012.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has published a list of some of the articles edited by Bell Pottinger, asserting that it has "evidence [which shows] the company made hundreds of alterations to Wikipedia entries about its clients in the last year". Among those included in the list are Chime Communications, the parent company of Bell ...
In July 2017, e-mails surfaced suggesting that Mngxitama received instructions from the Guptas and their contracted PR company Bell Pottinger. [4] [5] Bell Pottinger was subsequently suspended by the British Public Relations and Communications Association for "exploiting and creating racial divisions in South Africa" for five years. [6]
Timothy John Leigh Bell, Baron Bell (18 October 1941 – 25 August 2019), was a British advertising and public relations executive, best known for his advisory role in Margaret Thatcher's three successful general election campaigns and his co-founding and 30 years of heading Bell Pottinger.
Regulatory changes brought about by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed the Baby Bells to merge with each other or with non-Bell companies. Subsequently, a series of mergers and divestments has left six companies owning parts of the former Bell System as of 2024. In 1996, Bell Atlantic acquired NYNEX; In 1997, SBC acquired Pacific Telesis
Bell Pottinger Group, a PR firm. According to their article they've had involvement with Wikipedia. Here's a 2011 article on some of Bell Pottinger's activities; their Wikipedia involvement is mentioned in passing. BBC story on Wikipedia and Bell Pottinger; A plain old solicitation for paid Wikipedia editors. How typical this sort of thing is ...