founded 1985 headquarters london united kingdom key people matthew freud products branding & identity consumer insights design digital marketing market research media planning and buying public relations relationship marketing number of employees 200 approx . website freud communications freud communications is a public relations firm based in london . it was founded in 1985 by matthew freud of the public relations dynasty of edward bernays and great grandson of the psychoanalyst sigmund freud . the pr firm of edward bernays became britain s largest independent consumer pr firm . 1 the firm was bought in 1994 by another independent uk agency abbott mead vickers amv in 1994 for about 10 million pounds only for matthew freud together with other partners to buy back the company in 2001 for a similar sum when amv was itself purchased by the us group omnicom . 1 2 the french publicis groupe the third largest communications firm in the world acquired a 50.1 % stake in freud communications in june 2005 . in 2006 freud purchased advertising agency dfgw . citation needed 3 4 freud communications usa which closed in february 2009 was based in new york city . 5 the company had a turnover in 2011 of around 40million per year a staff of more than two hundred and has been ranked by pr week in their ranking system as 6th in the uk . 6 in 1999 leapman reported in the times that freud communications had offered an internet brand management service to its clients . this would scour the net for references to its clients and if they were criticised the agency would use rebuttal tactics to minimise the potentially negative impact of online inaccuracy . 7 in 2007 pr week ran a story documenting the use of wikiscanner to track anonymous edits and link them to organizations through their ip addresses and found that freud communications london office was caught making edits on behalf of clients . 8 references edit a b hopkins nic 2005 matthew freud the times june 17 friday p. 55 ford emily 2010 freud may break away from publicis the times thursday november 25 page 63 . sweney mark 2011 matthew freud to buy back pr agency for the second time the guardian sunday 13 march accessed april 2013 andrews amanda 2011 matthew freud buys back his pr firm from publicis the telegraph 15 apr accessed april 2013 hl group absorbs freud new york brand republic news pr week top 150 league table 2011 accessed april 2013 leapman michael 1999 trade digest the times june 11 friday shah aarti 2007 tool draws attention to firms wikipedia edits pr week usa friday 31 august accessed april 2013 external links edit official homepage farsetta diane 4 september 2007 . wikis prove tricky for pr firms . pr watch center for media and democracy . retrieved 28 march 2011 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title freud communications & oldid 696298432 categories public relations companies of the united kingdomconflict of interest editing on wikipediahidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 december 2015 at 06 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view