By Kevin McCauley
Chime Communications chairman Lord Bell, 70, and a group of senior managers are negotiating to buy PR units at the diversified communications and research combine.
Bell, who helped found Saatchi & Saatchi and ran publicity for former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, set up Chime’s Bell Pottinger with Piers Pottinger, who is Chime’s deputy chairman.
BellPott has attracted criticism for its aggressive representation of countries with unsavory human rights records.
Chime’s board issued a statement to say that “no proposal has yet been made and there can be no certainty that a proposal which the board can recommend to shareholders will be forthcoming.”
Chime also owns Good Relations and Search Relations. Christopher Satterthwaite is Chime’s CEO. |