private limited company industry marketing services founded 1989 headquarters london united kingdom key people christopher satterthwaite ceo number of employees 2000 subsidiaries vccp partnership csm sport & entertainment chime specialist group chime insight & engagement open health website chime 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 started 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 . 1 contents 1 operations 1.1 chime ventures 2 executive management 3 stock exchange de listing 4 references 5 external links operations edit the group comprises csm in sport and entertainment ; the vccp partnership in marketing communications ; open health in healthcare communications and market access ; cie in market research ; and the chime specialist group for communications in specialist market places . 2 chime retains a 25 % stake in bell pottinger a public relations firm that was bought out by its management in the summer of 2012 . 3 chime ventures edit chime ventures 4 is the investment unit within chime communications headed by nick taylor founder of harvard pr and chris satterthwaite . it is responsible for identifying and supporting new businesses and entrepreneurs in marketing communications . 5 it was launched in march 2011 and backs advertising marketing public relations sports marketing and research start up companies within and outside of the chime group . 5 companies that chime has previously backed include vccp search an offshoot of chimes s advertising agency vccp ; vccp health ; and bell pottinger middle east . 6 executive management edit the company is governed by an executive management team consisting of christopher satterthwaite chief executive mark smith chief operating officer and finance director robert davison group services director stephanie brimacombe chief marketing officer kate fraser hr director and heads of chime s operating divisions lord coe zak brown crispin beale adrian coleman jo parker and david rowley . 7 notable former directors include lord davies of abersoch who left the board following chime s takeover in october 2015 lord hannay of chiswick and dame sue tinson who both left the board on 31 december 2006 8 and lord bell who left the board in june 2012 following a mbo by bell pottinger s management team . 9 stock exchange de listing edit 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 81.1 % and wpp plc 18.9 % . 10 chime was re registered as a limited company on 19 october 2015 . references edit chime group business overview . chime communications plc. chime . retrieved 2 november 2013 . wpp http www.wpp.com wpp companies chime communications limited . retrieved 9 november 2015 . missing or empty title help sweney mark 31 may 2012 . chime agrees 20m bell pottinger sell off . guardian.co.uk thursday 31 may 2012 08.24 bst . london the guardian . retrieved 20 august 2012 . chime ventures . retrieved 4 november 2015 . a b tarran brian 17 march 2011 . research live . research live . nma . nmamarketingservicesguide.co.uk . chime communications limited website . retrieved 4 november 2015 . rns 84070 chime communications directorate changes . morningstar 2 january 2007 . morningstar . retrieved 2 november 2013 . completion of disposal . market announcements monday 02 july 2012 . chime plc. retrieved 20 august 2012 . chime targets expansion after completing 374m sale to wpp providence . retrieved 4 november 2015 . external links edit chime group corporate homepage flying fish interview with lord bell of chime communications . 8 may 2001 . by sathnam sanghera hemscott company summary chime communications plc retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title chime communications limited & oldid 692731720 categories media companies based in londonpublic relations companies of the united kingdomhidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsuse dmy dates from november 2013use british english from november 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 italiano edit links this page was last modified on 27 november 2015 at 22 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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