Chime Communications Limited
Chime Communications Limited is a marketing services company headquartered in Westminster, London, England. Chime is the holding company for companies which include sports marketing, public relations, advertising, digital, marketing, research, corporate responsibility and healthcare communications.
Chime was founded as a private company in 1989 following a management buyout from Lowe Howard Spink and Bell to form Lowe Bell Communications and subsequently floated in 1994 as Chime Communications plc before going private again in late 2015. Chime comprises five divisions, 54 companies and over 2,000 people. Until July 2012 the now defunct PR firm, Bell Pottinger, was wholly owned by Chime Communications.
Operations
The group comprises the VCCP Group in marketing communications and VCCP Business for communications in specialist marketplaces.Executive management
The company is governed by an executive management team, consisting of Adrian Coleman and Matthew Vandrau, Jo Parker, Stephanie Brimacombe and David Crowther.Notable former directors include Mervyn Davies, [Baron Davies of Abersoch|Lord Davies of Abersoch], Lord Hannay of Chiswick and Dame Sue Tinson, and Lord Bell.
Good Relations group
The Good Relations Group, owned by Chime Communications Limited, has 215 staff, 172 based in the UK. 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 Good Relations Group CEO is former London Olympics communications chief Jackie Brock-Doyle.
Clients
Group clients include Sky, Sony, Vodafone, Unilever and EADS. Until July 2012, it also managed PR for Nintendo.Prior to the MBO split, notable Bell Pottinger clients won by Good Relations included:
- BPEX. In September 2007 Good Relations was briefed by BPEX, previously the Meat and Livestock Commission, to run a campaign to raise consumer awareness of the issue. The objective was to show that messages about the plight of pig farmers were reaching consumers in order to persuade supermarkets to increase the price paid to farmers. They came up with a 'Pigs are worth it' campaign.
- PowerPerfector: an energy-consumption reduction technology company appointed Good Relations in September 2009, ahead of the UK government's 2010 push on carbon reduction.
- Almac Group: a provider of integrated drug development to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, appointed Good Relations in March 2010.