Cicero Group
Cicero Consulting is a communications and market research agency, which specialises in corporate, brand, political and regulatory campaigns across all major business sectors.
Cicero has offices in London, Brussels and Dublin, providing strategic public affairs, policy and communications advice to a wide range of asset managers, mortgage lenders, life offices, insurers, banks, hedge funds, intermediaries, financial trade bodies and private clients.ref Cicero opened a Washington, D.C. office in Oct.2010,ref but there is no mention of it on their website.
People
Jammed with SpAds, etc. See Team.
- Jeremy Swan, https://cicero-group.com/jeremy-swan/
- James Bethell, resigned as ‘Senior Counsel’ following his election to the House of Lords.ref, Jul.18.2018
Company
Ownership
Structure
- Cicero Consulting Ltd, OC, UP: Iain William Anderson
Westbourne Communications
Westbourne Communications has advised companies such as fracking firm Cuadrilla, Uber, Ingeus UK and Healthlogistics.co.uk Ltd.[1]ref,ref
In Jun.2018, the company was sold to Cicero Consulting.ref
Westbourne's hires have included Metro’s political editor John Higginson as head of comms; Ben Abbotts, former head of public affairs at Lansons, as partner; and account directors Ben Garratt from Labour Friends of Israel and FleishmanHillard's Rebecca Lury. ref
Yatterbox
Acq'd Sept.2013, OC, ref,ref, ref, ref, Website, Website.arch
Dan Jones & Associates
Dan Jones & Associates, Acq'd Jan.2010, ref, ref,ref , Website > https://multisite.cicerogroup.com/ Cicero Group], Website.arch
Oddly, the website forwards to the Utah-based Cicero Group; however, there is no mention on either "cicerogroup.com" or "cicero-group.com" of any association between the two companies. Most strange.
Articles
- ToDo: DDG (tons)
- Sept.11.2018: Lobbyists: Brexit's Biggest Beneficiaries. Just hours after David Davis warned Parliament not to undermine Brexit talks by demanding a say over the final deal, he was at the summer bash of Conservative lobby shop Hanover. Its clients include Goldman Sachs, Tate & Lyle and the vast US pharmaceutical lobby ref. The following week, just as the Withdrawal Bill passed, Davis was eating quail mini-kievs at lobbying firm Westbourne Communications' summer do. It acts for, among others, the finance lobby firm and hard-Brexit "think tank" Legatum Institute. Tamasin Cave, Unlock Democracy, SpinWatch.