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Merage Foundations

The Merage Foundations is an American consortium of charitable foundations which provide grants and administer grant funded operations in Israel. The consortium comprises the following individual foundations which represent three generations of the Merage family:
::The David and Laura Merage Foundation (established 2002)
::The Andre and Katherine Merage Foundation (established 2002)
::The Jonathan Merage Foundation
::The Sabrina Merage Foundation (established 2008) Merage Foundations Website About Us. Accessed 4 February 2015.
The individual foundations themselves provide funding to a subsidiary tier of foundations. The Andre and Katherine Merage Foundation and the David and Laura Merage Foundation both support Merage: The Foundation for the Promotion and Development of the Negev. The David and Laura Merage Foundation also supports Early Learning Ventures and the Equitas Foundation. 
The About Us page on the Merage Foundations homepage provides the following description of the organisation:
::Our philanthropic investments are focused on social change and result in children, families and communities improving the quality and circumstances of their lives. The Merage legacy demonstrates a strong commitment to their communities, their Jewish heritage, and their family. The family has a deep belief in giving back and sharing their strength and resources to improve the lives of others... As venture philanthropists, we engage with our partners and invest our human, financial, and intellectual capital to achieve unparalleled results. The Merage Foundations’ operational platform is modeled on the successful business ventures of our founding family. Their entrepreneurial spirit and management expertise provides a clear road-map for our social investment strategy. 
The Andre and Katherine Merage Foundation is a major donor to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 
==Notes==
Category:Israel
Mercer Family Foundation

The private foundation of hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer.
==Grantees==
===Counterjihad grantees===
*Encounter for Culture and Education: $25,000
*Gatestone Institute: $50,000 in 2014, Mercer Family Foundation Form 990, 2014, reviewed by Spinwatch $50,000 in 2015, $100,000 in 2016.
*Philanthropy Roundtable: US $20,000 in 2014
==Notes==
Category:Counterjihad Funders
Merchant

Merchant is a subsidiary of Brunswick Group. According to its website Merchant is
			
:a leading corporate design consultancy. We work with clients to develop creative ways of communicating their brand and investment proposition. Our principal areas of activity are annual reports, websites, corporate literature, corporate identity and advertising.
Design Work reports:
:There is a corner of the design industry which has the ear of some of the most covetable FTSE 100 companies, but it has such a low profile that it is largely ignored by the outside world. These groups are consistently well placed in business surveys, but are still poorly perceived.
According to Managing Director Robert Moser 'The old adage that no-one reads the annual report is true if you simply regurgitate the preliminary statement,’ he points out. ‘If you want someone to read it, you have to deliver clarity about your operations. If you do that, any analyst worth his or her salt will read it. Annual reporting is a specialty, like hairdressing: there are billions of hairdressers but only a few really know how to cut hair.’ 
==People==
===Directors===
*John Andrew Fenwick Appointed as Secretary	10/8/1997
*Alan Parker Appointed as Director	10/8/1997
==Staff, December 2006==
*Robert Moser Managing Director 	
*Reg Pauffley Strategic Advisor 	
*Keelin MacGreevy Partner 	
*Jayne Bull Project Manager
*Claire Morrison Project Manager 	
*Anna Gilson Project Manager 	
*Leigh Littlebury Project Manager 	
*Ione Minett Project Manager
*Carmelina Massaro Project Manager 	
*Russell Thompson Production Manager 	
*Chris Baxter Advertising Director 	
*Helen Smythe PA to Robert Moser
==Previous names==
Coready Limited name changed 01/11/1997 
===Parent company===
*Wynnstay Merchant Limited
==Notes==
# Merchant Website, Accessed December 2006.
# 'SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP' Design Week, August 4, 2000, Pg. 22
# Nina Montagu-Smith 'Could Try Harder' CorpComms Magazine, 2005
# Companies House, Merchant Corporate Design Limited, accessed January 2007.
Merck KGaA

In 2008, Merck KGaA is listed as a client of Business Insights Business Insights Patient Power: The shift towards more informed, more powerful consumers of drugs Accessed 5th February 2008 and as a member of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and AssociationsInternational Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations Members Accessed 11th March 2008.
==References==
Category:Pharmaceutical Industry
Merck Sharp Dohme

Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited (MSD) is the UK subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA, a global, research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first. Established in 1891, MSD discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of innovative medicines and vaccines to improve human health. MSD UK Website , Acessed 17/03/08 In December 2007, MSD received a Scrip Award in the category of Corporate Social Responsibility for the Mectizan Donation Program. BAA Website , Acessed 17/03/08
Mercury Group

Mercury describes itself as a UK-based multi-disciplinary marketing and communications business 'that specialises in raising the profile of our clients to help them communicate clearly, grow stronger and prosper'.
The firm offers a range of specialisms, from PR and crisis communications to community and stakeholder engagement. It boasts: 'Not only will the team plan the most exciting community engagement programmes, they have unsurpassed media relations and public affairs skills combined with an unbelievable ability to generate positive media exposure for clients'.
==Subsidiaries==
*Mercury Design and Marketing
*Mercury Web Design
==Clients==
*Rathlin Energy - Mercury managing director Simon Taylor attends the Rathlin community liaison group in relation to Rathlin's Newton B site
*Third Energy
==Achievements cited==
===Energy-related===
:*'Supporting two international offshore wind companies, whose projects’ combined valued is more than £6bn, with successful communications through the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) process. These are nationally significant projects which are required to go through the Planning Inspectorate for approval.
:*Dealing with two of the country’s most difficult onshore planning applications, coordinating all communications and stakeholder communications
:*Working directly for five of the ‘big six’ energy firms
:*Delivering services for two Italian and Norwegian oil and gas companies'
==Address==
==Notes==
Category:Fracking
Meredith Thomas Public Relations Ltd

Meredith thomas is a PR firm based in Manchester, England. It has acted as the spin doctor for MMC Estates and its subsidiary Countryside Properties who have been trying to build houses on a site contaminated by Asbestos in the face of a local campaign.
==Clients==
From the Meredith thomas website:
# The Langtree Group
# Birchwood Park Estates
# HBG Properties
# Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
# North West Water Property
# Laytons Solicitors
# Chadwick (Accountants)
# Jackson Stephens (Accountants)
# Manchester City Council
# Central Manchester Development Corporation
# First Lift Ltd
# Arlington Securities
# Bellway Homes North west
# AMEC Developments
# networkspace
# Metier Property Holdings
# Exchange Quay
# The Association of Town Centre Management North West
# The Royal Exchange:Prudential Portfolio Managers
# Friends Provident
# Natwest Group Property
# Pannone and Partners
# Fox Brooks Marshall
# GVA Grimley - Manchester and Leeds
# Countryside Properties
# Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
# Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
# Oxford City Council
# Argent
# Arrowcroft North West
Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch

The educational arm of Chabad ­Lubavitch. Essential to Chabad-Lubavitch’s operations is its goal to reach every Jew in the world, regardless of background and no matter how remote or isolated. Education is the key to this endeavor. Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, is the coordinating organization of these worldwide educational programs (below).https://www.lubavitch.com/headquarters/merkos-linyonei-chinuch/
==Programmes==
*Kehot Publication Society Under the leadership of his successor, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitch publishing houses have brought Torah education to nearly every Jewish community in the world, and is the world's largest publisher of Jewish literature.
*Central Chabad Lubavitch Library Throughout the Chabad movement's long history, beginning with its White Russian roots, a collection of books and manuscripts was at the center of the movement, in the Rebbe's house
*Chabad.org Everything in this world was created for a divine purpose. All forms of modern technology can and should be harnessed to make the world a better place and, in the case of Jews, to spread Judaism in the widest possible manner
*The Office of Education The Merkos Chinuch - Education Office is a cohesive center for administrators, educators, students and parents of Chabad-Lubavitch educational institutions
*The National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education In 1975, National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education, founded by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, may his merit protect us, began disseminating information and resources globally
*The National Campus Office More than 325 Chabad Houses serve students on over 700 college campuses in 22 countries worldwide.
*The Jewish Learning Institute The mission of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute is to inspire Jewish learning worldwide and to transform Jewish life and the greater community through Torah study.
*The Jewish Learning Network Jnet provides business people, students and homemakers the opportunity to take some time out of their busy work week - whether at the office at home or even on the go - to study Torah...
*The Shluchim Office Nearly twenty years ago, at the annual Kinus HaShluchim in New York, the Rebbe called for the establishment of The Shluchim Office.
*Jewish Educational Media Jewish Educational Media has evolved into the multimedia archive responsible for maintaining a lifetime of images and sounds of the Rebbe, the Lubavitch movement, and Jewish outreach.
*The Shluchim Exchange Over 1,500 Shluchim have joined the Exchange, from across the globe! Now they have instant advice to all their Shlichus needs. Be it a grant proposal, logo or a camp newsletter, Now it's just a click away!
==Contact==
*48 SAVOY STREET, PROVIDENCE, RI 02906 USA. https://business.sos.ri.gov/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.aspx?FEIN=000848022
==Notes==
Category:Chabad-Lubavitch
Merlin Biosciences

==Overview==
Merlin Biosciences was founded in 1996 by Christopher Evans. The aim of the company was to raise funds from investors to help support small, innovative bioscience companies.Heather Tomlinson, 'Fraud inquiry at pioneering biotech firm', 27 September 2005. Merlin Biosciences is now known as Excalibur Fund Managers.
==Serious Fraud Office Investigation==
In September 2005 Merlin Biosciences was placed under investigations by the Serious Fraud Office and the City of London Police following claims that around £2.5m was misappropriated from company funds to invest in Energist and Miracle Light. A four year investigation ensued but was subsequently dropped with the Serious Fraud Office stating it would "not be bringing any charges as a result of its investigation into the affairs of Merlin Biosciences. The Serious Fraud Office launched its enquiries in 2005 following a referral from the Financial Services Authority. Following a detailed review of the evidence gathered in the course of a thorough investigation, it has been concluded that there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction."Alistair Dawber, 'Sir Christopher Evans in the clear as SFO gives up fraud inquiry', The Independent, 13 November 2009.
==Affiliations==
*Merlin Biosciences was a donor to the Science Media Centre in 2002, 2003 and 2004 according to the SMC.Data from Internet Archive holdings of the Science Media Centre website, 2002-2013.
*Apr 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20030625193943/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/aboutus/fundingsystem.html
*Nov 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20040214043237/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm
*Oct 2004 http://web.archive.org/web/20041205182639/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm
==People==
*Martin Walton - Managing Director and Chief Executive Director.
*Christopher Evans - Founder, Fund Manager, and Group Chairman.
*Shafia Zahoor - Finance Director.
*Mark Clement - Managing Director of European Operations.
*Brenig Preest - Investment Director.'Company Overview of Excalibur Fund Managers Limited', Bloomberg, accessed 7 July 2016.
==Contact==
:Berkeley Square House
:Berkeley Square
:Mayfair
:London, W1J 6BD
:United Kingdom
:Phone: 44 20 7887 7642
:Fax: 44 20 7887 7650
==Resources==
*Excalibur website - http://excalibur-group.co.uk
==Notes==
Category:Biotech Industry Category:Science Media Centre
Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley

Merlin Charles Sainthill Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley, FSA (born 17 June 1939) is a British peer, author and veteran right-wing activist. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. In 1941, at the age of three, he succeeded his first cousin once removed, Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 6th Barony Sudeley, to the Barony of Sudeley and until the House of Lords Act 1999 sat in that body as a hereditary peer.
A member of the UK Conservative Party all his adult life, he was sometime president and also chairman of the Conservative Monday Club for 17 years. He is vice-chancellor of the International Monarchist League, and president of the Traditional Britain Group. He is patron of the Bankruptcy Association and convenor of the Forum for Stable Currencies. Lord Sudeley is also lay patron of the Prayer Book Society and a past President of the Montgomeryshire Society. 7th Baron Sudeley profile 
===Affiliations===
*Former patron, Right Now!
*Former vice-president, Western Goals Institute
==Resources and articles==
===References===
Hanbury-Tracy, MerlinHanbury-Tracy, Merlin
Merlyn Rees

Merlyn Rees, Lord Merlyn Rees (1920-2006) was a Labour politician.Tam Dalyell, Lord Merlyn-Rees, Independent, 6 January 2006.
Rees served in the 1974-79 Labour Government as Northern Ireland Secretary (5 Mar 74 - 10 Sep 76) and Home Secretary (10 Sep 76 - 4 May 79).David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000, pp.35-36.
==Northern Ireland Secretary==
As Northern Ireland Secretary, Rees was immediately faced with powerful opposition to the Sunningdale power-sharing arrangements, anti-Sunningdale unionists have won 11 out of 12 Northern Ireland seats at the February 1974 general election. During the Ulster Workers' Council strike of May 1974, Rees was unwilling to use the army to break the strike, a position which probably relected the Army's own inclinations, and eventually decided to resume direct rule.W.D Flackes, & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, pp.242-243. 
In July 1974, he announced a Constitutional Convention which was elected the following year, but which collapsed in 1976.W.D Flackes, & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, pp.243-244. 
During a Provisional IRA ceasefire in early 1975, Rees authorised contacts with British officials, but the ceasefire petered out later that year.W.D Flackes, & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, pp.243-244. 
==Affiliations==
===Conferences===
*1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
==Notes==
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Merris Griffiths

==Background==
Griffiths is a lecturer in film, TV and media at Aberystwyth University.
* ILT Accreditation and Certification in HE Teaching (Masters Level), UWB
* PhD UWA
* BA Joint Honours English and Education UWA
==Biographical Information==
===History===
===Current activities===
According to her web page Griffiths is currently focusing on
"children's television and youth audiences, issues pertaining to the understanding and promotion of media literacy, notions of 'representation' of various social groups (especially children) in the media, gendered readerships of media texts and the advertising industry." Merris Griffiths
Research, accessed January 6 2009.
==Views==
==Affiliations==
*Member of the Advertising Education Forum, Academic Network, 2004 - present Advertising Education Forum AEF Academic Network (AAN), accessed 1 August 2007.
* Member of the International Toy Research Association (ITRA),2002 - present
==Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes==	 
===Publications===
===Contact===	
:Address:
:Phone:
:Email:
:Website: 
===Resources===	 
===Notes===
Griffiths, Merris
Category:Foodspin Scientists
Message Matters

Message Matters is an Edinburgh-based PR and lobbying agency founded in 2012 by two former Scottish Conservative figures.
==Services==
MM provides a range of services, including: lobbying and 'strategic, private counsel to large companies to assist them in their political engagement and lobbying.'Counsel, MM website, accessed Sept 2015
==Partnership with Cicero==
In September 2014, Message Matters formed a partnership with Cicero, a London-based lobbying firm. It was described as 'an important strategic link for Cicero that gave it a presence in Scotland.Cicero partners with Scottish PA and PR agency Message Matters, PR Week, 8 September 2014
==People==
*Peter Duncan, former chairman of the Conservative Party in Scotland; chair of the Association of Professional Political Consultants Scotland from 2014.
*Andy Maciver, previously managed communications for a Scottish Tory leadership contender as well as the Bank of Scotland
*Craig Harrow
*Kirsty Leiper
*Fiona Leith
==APPC register==
===People===
====June 2016-August 2016====
Gareth Brown | Peter Duncan | Craig Harrow | Kirsty Leiper | Fiona Leith | Andy MacIver 
===Clients===
====June 2016-August 2016====
Active Stirling | BayWa Renewable Energy UK | Brookfield Renewable UK Ltd | Business in the Community | Financial Data and Technology Association | ICAS | J C Decaux | Keep Scotland Beautiful | Reform Scotland | Smart Energy GB | Standard Life Current register 1st June 2016 - 31st August 2016, APPC, accessed 24 November 2016. 
====March-May 2017====
Angus Energy (i) Brookfield Renewable UK Ltd (i) Business in the Community (i)Financial Data and Technology Association (i)ICAS (i)Keep Scotland Beautiful (i)League Against Cruel Sports (i)PAS (i)Reform Scotland (i)Shepherd + Wedderburn (i)Silvercloud Health (i)Smart Energy GB (i)Standard Life (i)Teach First (i) Current register 31 May 2017, APPC
==Contacts==
:Address: 22 Calton Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8DP
:Website: www.messagematters.co.uk
==References==
Category:Scottish lobbying firms
MetLife

MetLife is a leading provider of insurance and other financial services to individual and institutional customers.
==Record and Controversies==
===Revolving Door===
:*Sylvia Mathews Burwell, a Director of MetLife and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company since 2004, was Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C. (1998-2002). She was Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1998, and was Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin from 1995 to 1997.MetLife, Board of Directors, accessed 01 February 2011. 
:*R. Glenn Hubbard, a Director of MetLife and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company since February 2007, was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors from February 2001 until March 2003.MetLife, Board of Directors, accessed 01 February 2011.
:*General John M. Keane, a Director of MetLife and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company since 2003, was Vice Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer of the Army from 1999 until his retirement in October 2003.MetLife, Board of Directors, accessed 01 February 2011.
:*David Satcher, a Director of MetLife and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company since February 2007, was U. S. Assistant Secretary for Health from 1998 to January 2001.MetLife, Board of Directors, accessed 01 February 2011. 
==Lobbying firms==
*Hanover Communications Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014 APPC, accessed 29 January 2015 
===Former lobbying firms===
*Hume Brophy Register for 1st March 2014 - 31st May 2014 APPC, accessed 29 January 2015 
==Contact==
:Website:
:http://www.metlife.com/
==Resources==
*MetLife, Board of Directors, accessed 01 February 2011.
==Notes==
Category: Financial Revolving Door
Met Pro Rapid Response

Met Pro Rapid Response is a UK security firm. In March 2011 it provided security for a budget cuts council meeting of Barnet Council and was later found to have covertly and illegally filmed residents, councillors and campaigners who attended.
==Activities==
It emerged that Barnet Council had paid Met Pro Rapid Response over £1.2m over the past five years. The Council "had no records of the procurement process, it had no evidence of what tasks this company had performed for the council... no written evidence confirming that Met Pro’s staff were CRB checked, and that it lacked the proper SIA licenses to be practising security".
Adam Langleben, How bloggers exposed Tory ‘EasyCouncil’ where outsourcing is out of control, June 20th 2011, accessed 22 June 2011 
According to Companies House, Met Pro was under liquidation as of 14 March 2011. Appointment of Liquidators Notice METPRO RAPID RESPONSE LIMITED, opencorporates Open Database, accessed 23 June 2011 
==Affiliations==
==People==
==Clients==
*Barnet Council
==Contact, Resources and Notes==
===Contact===
:Registered Address:C/O BOND PARTNERS LLP, THE GRANGE 100 HIGH STREET, SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N14 6TB
:Phone:
:Email:
:Website:http://www.metprogroup.co.uk/home.php
===Resources===
*Adam Langleben, How bloggers exposed Tory ‘EasyCouncil’ where outsourcing is out of control, Left Foot Forward, June 20th 2011, accessed 22 June 2011
===Notes===
Category:Spooks
Metdist

Metdist is a mining trading group chaired by Raj Bagri, former chairman of the London Metal Exchange (LME), whose son Apurv Bagri is the Managing Director.
The Metdist group keeps a low public profile. Company House records that Metdist Ltd, Metdist International Ltd., Metdist Trading Ltd, as well as Minmetco, all occupy the same address.
==Significant LME Interest== 
Metdist is a significant shareholder of the London Metal Exchange. Out of 12.9m ordinary shares, Metdist Ltd owns 912,000 and Metdist Trading Ltd. own 300,000, making it a 9.4% owner.Nicholas Larkin and Agnieszka Troszkiewicz, 'London Metal Exchange Takeover Bids Mean Most Is at Stake for Goldman, UBS', Bloomberg, 28 September 2011, accessed 24 November 2011
==Contact==
*Address: 
::80 Cannon Street 
::London
::EC4N 6EJ
*Tel: 020 7280 0000
*Fax: 020 7606 6650
*Email: enquiries@metdist.com
==Resources==
:Website metdist.co.uk
==Notes==
Category:Mining
Category:Mining Industry
Category:Mining and Metals
Category:Transnational Corporations
Category:Mining and Metals: Transnational Corporations
Meteoric Tactical Solutions

Company formed by South African mercenaries Harry Carlse and Lourens Horn.
::Carlse and Horn then worked as guards, forming a company called Meteoric Tactical Solutions (taking a similar name to Du Toit's firm, Military Technical Services). In 2003 the firm won security work in Iraq. Among other contracts it struck a £250,000 deal with Britain's international development agency to guard staff in Iraq. The firm also helped train Iraqi police.The Wonga Coup, by Adam Roberts, Profile Books, 2006, p144.
==References==
Category:Private Military Corporations