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Bell Pottinger Private (legally BPP Communications Ltd.) was a British multinational public relations, reputation management and marketing company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. On 12 September 2017 it went into administration (bankruptcy) as a consequence of a scandal caused by its activities in South Africa.
In March 2021, two former Bell Pottinger partners, Nick Lambert and Victoria Geoghegan, failed in a legal action to avoid being banned from acting as company directors. [38] Henderson was not part of this legal action, but had previously described the Insolvency Service's case against him as "weak and misconceived". [ 39 ]
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.
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]
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 the spring of 2011, the World Bank urged Kenya’s finance ministry to end the evictions until the bank could help the government work out a plan for addressing the Sengwer’s concerns. According to bank officials, Kenyan authorities agreed to stop the evictions until they found new land where the Sengwer could relocate.
A more detailed interview in South Africa’s Daily Maverick quotes Veribo’s CEO expressing the same view and deflecting all responsibility for the campaign onto Bell Pottinger. Bell Pottinger has had a long history with Wikipedia. In a videotaped undercover interview by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Bell Pottinger revealed that it ...
The company's annual sales and profit are projected to be below market expectations, joining Macy's and Nordstrom to warn of a challenging year for U.S. department stores. (Joe Raedle)