“Following an immediate assessment of the financial position, the administrators have made a number of redundancies.”Bell Pottinger expelled from PR trade body after South Africa racism row Read moreThe move to put Bell Pottinger into administration does not affect its subsidiaries in Asia and the Middle East. The chief executive, James Henderson, resigned last Sunday, the day before the UK’s PR trade body expelled Bell Pottinger from its ranks. Even the tobacco giant Imperial Brands, owner of Gauloises, John Player and Winston – the kind of client on which Bell Pottinger built its business – is reviewing its account after using the agency for more than two decades. The collapse of Bell Pottinger marks an ignominious end for one of the most high-profile and controversial UK PR firms of the last 30 years. It also emerged last year that Bell Pottinger had been paid £500m to make propaganda videos in Iraq on behalf of the US government.

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2017 17:18 UTC