27 Jan 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Advertising
The COI 's former deputy chief executive, Peter Buchanan , has joined HMDG as a consulting director. ( Campaign )
Iris has hired Bob Udale from Start Judge Gill as global planning director and Lindsay Landy as senior strategist from Philips Consumer Lifestyle division ...
21 Oct 2011
| by Sara Kimberley
of government communications, and placed the 400 remaining COI staff in a consultation period. The appointment ...
, is with immediate effect and is intended to manage the transition to a post-COI world in about March next year ...
07 Oct 2011
| by Sara Kimberley
include News International, Coca-Cola, Google and the COI. (Campaign)
TBWA\London has poached ...
01 Sep 2011
| by Sarah Johnson
Central Office of Information (COI) cut its advertising spend by 50% last year according to Marketing ...
07 Apr 2011
| by Maisie McCabe
Mark Lund, the outgoing chief executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), has engineered...Lund announced his departure from the COI at the beginning of March and later that month, he ...
, I have agreed with Ian Watmore at the Cabinet Office, that I will now leave COI at the end ...
of COI.
"Chris Wood will move from non-executive director to acting chairman. The management Board ...
25 Mar 2011
| by Staff
Advertising
John Townshend , the former creative partner of Rapier , the outgoing COI chief Mark Lund, and strategist Kate Waters , have founded a communications agency called Now . Now opens its doors for business this week from offices in London s Fitzrovia. ( Campaign )
Abbott ...
18 Mar 2011
| by Arif Durrani
The Cabinet Office's recommendation to scrap the Central Office of Information (COI) today forms...the deficit and the desire for a smaller role for government. The COI s activity is generally based around ...
.01 billion, of which 540 million was direct communication activity through COI, with 211 million spent ...
. As a result, the annual volume of communication activity commissioned through COI fell to 125 million ...
18 Mar 2011
| by Gemma Charles
The Government has been advised to replace the COI, its 65-year-old ad body, with a Government...Outgoing permanent secretary Matt Tee has recommended scrapping the Central Office of Information (COI) today (18 March) in favour of a centralised unit composed of government marketers from the department.
The plan outlined in the report will see around 1,000 jobs slashed, a reduction which ...
14 Mar 2011
| by Ed Owen
for European communications at Honda, and the award's advertiser judge, chose "flu germs (bus)" for the COI ...
11 Mar 2011
| by Staff
Mark Lund's surprise exit from the COI leads the news this week, and it's all change at Starcom...Mark Lund , chief executive of the embattled Central Office of Information (COI), is leaving his ...