Huntsworth Plc is an international healthcare and communications group. 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.

Company structure

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:

Clients

Graylings has lobbied for some of Britain's leading companies, like National Grid and BT, and has carried out PR work for Belarus. 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. Chadlington would also advise private equity companies on issues being examined by the Commons Treasury Select Committee 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.

Political connections

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.