The public relations industry also offers planning events from the inception to the completion; assisting in the publication process, including writing, design and production; and coordinating advertising opportunities locally, state wide and nationally.
Many of UK public relations companies provide the services mentioned above in order to help their clients create, manage, monitor and market their businesses, brands and reputations in the UK and internationally. Chime Communications PLC is a holding company for the biggest UK Public Relations Group (Bell Pottinger, Good Relations, Harvard, Insight, Resonate, Ozone, De Facto, MMK, Rare and Traffic); the UK's leading research and consultation group (OLR and SMART) and now with VCCP, one of the fastest growing advertising and marketing services group in the UK, including specialist agencies in financial services (Teamspirit) and in property marketing (TTA) and in Contract Publishing (Rare).
One of the leading UK public relations companies, Chime, consists of three divisions: Public Relations; Advertising and Marketing Services; and Research.
The UK public relations companies in Chime have been shaping a public opinion for decades, helping clients announce important results and win an investor's confidence; shape regulatory environments and lead important public debates. They assist companies in winning more customers, increasing sales and build brands; communicating better with employees and winning the commitment, needed to make employees brand advocates wherever they go. Chime also deals with saving companies from a crisis, defending reputations, calming hostile media and preventing unwelcome takeovers.
The Public Relations division includes leading brands in the industry, such as Bell Pottinger, Good Relations, QBO Bell Pottinger, Harvard, Insight and Ozone, serving more than six hundred major UK and international brands, as well as governments, government departments, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, charities, not-for-profit organizations, professional service firms and famous people.
The fastest growing marketing services group in the UK, incorporating the recently acquired VCCP, is the Advertising and Marketing Services Division. The VCCP Group presents the advertising, direct marketing, digital communication, sponsorship exploitation, point of sale, sales promotion and specialist media planning and buying. It acts as a 'brand integrator' on behalf of its clients. In 2004, the Group won three IPA Effectiveness Awards: Gold and Grand Prix for O2 and The Effectiveness Agency of the Year 2004 (billings below hundred million pounds).
Opinion Leader Research and The SMART Company made the Research Division. Opinion Leader Research is a leading research company that specializes in a number of areas, such as understanding and evaluating a reputation; deliberative and collaborative approaches to involve people in decision making; a social and policy research; a consultation with opinion leaders _ professional and social; understanding and harnessing an influence and thought leadership.
The SMART Company is a leading consultancy that focuses on a corporate social responsibility, a community investment and related cross sector partnerships and helps clients understand and respond to the CSR agenda; develop strategies and integrate them into the business practice; identify, build and evaluate community investment programmes; and measure and report on a social, ethical and environmental performance.
With all its companies, Chime Communications PLC, is the one you can trust your business, when it comes to a strategic point of the public relations.