Chime Communications Limited


Chime Communications Limited is a marketing services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Chime is the holding company for a portfolio of 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 disgraced PR firm, Bell Pottinger, was wholly owned by Chime Communications.

Operations

The group comprises CSM in sport and entertainment; the VCCP Partnership in marketing communications; OPEN Health in healthcare communications and market access; and Chime Specialist Group for communications in specialist market places.

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 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:
Chime was de-listed from the London Stock Exchange on 16 October 2015 and re-registered as a private company following a takeover by Providence Equity Partners and WPP plc. Chime was re-registered as a limited company on 19 October 2015.