Bell Pottinger Public Affairs
Bell Pottinger Public Affairs (BPPA) is one of the largest public relations companies in the United Kingdom.
"BPPA is one of fourteen companies operating within the public relations division of Chime Communications plc," it states on its website. The Public relations division is named Bell Pottinger Communications
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History
In March 2004 BPPA won a $5.8m (£3.2m) four-month contract from the U.S. supported administration in Iraq to promote the establishment of democracy ahead of the handover of power to the interim Iraqi authority on 30 June. According to PR Week, the contract also includes promoting the election of an Iraqi government.
"B-PC will work with its Dubai operation Bates PanGulf, and Baghdad-based media services company Balloch & Roe. A small team will be sent to work with Balloch & Roe's Arabic writers who will advise on how best to cross the cultural divide," PR Week reported.
The project team, PR Week reports will be headed by Mark Turnbull and the head of BPPA's Dubai office Tom Mollo. The Independent (UK) reported that company founder Tim Bell described his role as "masterminding the campaign in London". [1] (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=500728)
Clients
Clients include
- BAE Systems
- McDonalds
- Imperial Tobacco [2] (http://www.bppa.co.uk/clients.html)
- Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA) [3] (http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1934)
Staff
- Fiona Mason, director [4] (http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2004/09/27/cnlab27.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2004/09/27/ixfrontcity.html).
Contact information
Bell Pottinger Public Affairs
6th Floor, Holborn Gate
330 High Holborn
London WC1V 7QC
Phone 020 7861 2400
Fax: 020 7861 2401
http://www.bppa.co.uk/index.html
Resources
See David Hill
External links
- Sarah Robertson, "Bell Pottinger in Iraq democracy PR drive (http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=204668&site=1)", PR Week, March 11, 2004.
- Ian Burrell, "How to sell democracy to Iraqis: bring in Lord Bell (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=500728)," Independent (UK), March 13, 2004.
- Paul Holmes, "U.K. Firm to Promote Democracy in Iraq (http://www.holmesreport.com/holmestemp/story.cfm?edit_id=4138&typeid=1)," The Holmes Report, March 13, 2004.
- Heather Timmons, "Publicist Hired to Tell Iraqis of Democracy (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/international/europe/31SPIN.html)," New York Times, March 31, 2004.