Mercury Public Affairs

Background Mercury is a public affairs and lobbying agency owned by Omnicom. Its lobbyists include former high-level staff from Democratic and Republican administrations.  In 2021, Mercury sued its parent organization, Omnicom, after […]

DDC Public Affairs

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Background DDC Public Affairs, formerly DDC Advocacy, is a public relations firm based in the Washington, D.C., area. Founded in 1996 as Democracy, Data, and Communications, it became part […]

MSQ Partners

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Background Founded in 2011, MSQ is a London-based advertising and public relations holding company.  It has worked for fossil fuel clients BP […]

BBDO

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Background BBDO is a public relations and advertising agency based in New York that has worked for ExxonMobil since 2011. It is one of the major agency networks that comprise Omnicom, a public relations holding company.2โ€œBBDO,โ€ Omnicom Group, Accessed […]

W. Brett Wilson

W. Brett Wilson Credentials Background William (W.) Brett Wilson is an investment banker and was formerly listed as chairman of Canoe Financial and Prairie Merchant Corporation. He co-founded FirstEnergy Capital Corp. in 1993. FirstEnergy Capital provides “investment-banking services to Canada’s oil […]

Group SJR

Background Group SJR is part of the WPP group of companies. Group SJRโ€™s current clients include ExxonMobil and Drax, […]

Dentsu

Background Dentsu is a Japanese advertising and public relations holding company. Dentsu is the fifth-largest advertising agency group in the world and the largest in Japan. Dentsuโ€™s national operations in Japan were previously handled separately from the global business, known […]

Agractie

Background Agractie is a Dutch farmersโ€™ protest group founded in 2019 by sheep farmer Bart Kemp in direct response to the Dutch governmentโ€™s plans to reduce the countryโ€™s nitrogen pollution by cutting livestock numbers. […]

Farmers Defence Force

Background Farmers Defence Force (FDF) is a radical farming activist group in the Netherlands and Belgium, founded by Dutch pig and fruit farmer Mark van den Oever in May 2019. According to Van den Oever, he started the group in direct response to the occupation of pig breeding facilities in Boxtel, Netherlands by animal rights […]

BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB)

Background BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) โ€“ or โ€œFarmer-Citizen Movementโ€ in English โ€“ is an agrarian right-wing populist party in the Netherlands, founded in response to the 2019 Dutch farmer protests. The party was established in November 2019 by agricultural journalist Caroline van der […]