For sale - Used PR company with vanishing clients
Finding a buyer may present a challenge to Bell Pottinger as existing investors distance themselves amid controversy
06 September 2017 - 13:50
Bell Pottinger LLP has put itself up for sale after being expelled from the U.K.’s public-relations industry body and losing clients over a racially divisive social-media campaign in South Africa. The London-based PR firm, founded by Margaret Thatcher’s media consultant, has hired financial adviser BDO “to look at all options regarding the future of the business,” it said in a statement late Tuesday.
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