Huntsworth Plc is an international healthcare and communications group.
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Pharmaceuticals |
Founder | Lord Chadlington |
Headquarters | London, England |
Number of locations | 50 principal offices in 28 countries |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Services | Integrated healthcare communications |
Owner | Clayton, Dubilier & Rice |
Subsidiaries | Medistrava Evoke The Creative Engagement Group Grayling Citigate Dewe Rogerson Red |
Website | www |
The Group's principal area of focus is health, which provides marketing and medical communications services to healthcare clients, which are primarily large and mid-size pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Huntsworth is owned by private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
Huntsworth's healthcare capability has three areas of expertise:
Huntsworth also has a communications group, which provides a wide range of communications and advisory services including strategic communications, public affairs, investor relations and consumer marketing. Huntsworth’s communications pillar is split into three distinct agency sub-Groups:
Graylings has lobbied for some of Britain's leading companies, like National Grid and BT,[2] and has carried out PR work for Belarus.[3] When working for Huntsworth, its founder Lord Chadlington personally lobbied for several clients, including the London Stock Exchange, Associated British Foods and the Carlyle Group.[4] Chadlington would also advise private equity companies on issues being examined by the Commons Treasury Select Committee[5] as well as prime senior figures from private equity firms such as Permira, KKR, 3i and the Carlyle Group before they appeared before the Treasury Select Committee.[6]
Huntsworth is a major donor to the UK Conservative Party: between them, Lord Chadlington and Huntsworth donated £77,000 to the Tories between 2005 and 2010.[3]