01 May 2012
| by Kim Benjamin
) Blue Rubicon
New brand
Be clear on cancer (COI-Department of Health) M C Saatchi
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05 Apr 2012
| by Gemma Charles
As the COI shuts up shop, the new public ad structures, under the auspices of the Government...long goodbye, but last week the COI shut its doors for good.
Its demise is well-documented; once ...
much-vaunted austerity drive. Ministers reasoned that there was no need for the COI, and since last ...
of government communications Jenny Grey, will pick up some of the COI's duties, although the Cabinet Office has ...
04 Apr 2012
| by Noelle McElhatton
For those who rue the COI's demise, there was comfort in a TV ad that debuted last Saturday.
Broadcast a day after the doors of Hercules House finally closed, the first post-COI TV campaign was hard ...
without the DH's internal marketing muscle must rely on the downsized son of COI.
Meanwhile, the Prime ...
31 Mar 2012
| by Gemma Charles
The drive, which will run across TV, press and radio is the first "health harm" anti-smoking campaign for five years and the first to roll out since the closure of the COI on Friday (30 March).
It follows a call at the end of last year by the British Medical Association to ban smoking in cars ...
26 Mar 2012
| by Gemma Charles
expressed that lessons learnt by the COI on effectiveness would be lost but Grey said there was an "extensive programme of knowledge transfer".
On Friday the 66-year-old COI officially closes its doors ...
14 Mar 2012
| by Helen Edwards, PPA, Business columnist of the year
-year wonder? The pair are coy about their plans. Whatever they decide, though, Moyes and Harper are clearly ...
20 Jan 2012
| by Gemma Charles
Grey, previously the director of policy and communication for No10 and the Cabinet Office, will also retain the responsibilities associated with this role. When the plan to create the executive director role was originally announced along with the closure of the COI, government insiders had suggested ...
28 Dec 2011
| by Andrew McCormick
stratospheric.
Campaign: Choose a different ending
Brand: COI/Met Police
Agency: AMV ...
19 Dec 2011
| by Nicola Clark
Christmas presents, hit the right note.
3. THE END OF AN ERA FOR THE COI
The axe finally fell on the 65-year-old Central Office of Information (COI) this year when Francis Maude, the minister ...
communications costs. A mere 20 COI staff will be moved to the Cabinet Office next year, while the others ...
05 Dec 2011
| by Gemma Charles
The COI will stop taking on new work from next week as part of the wind-down of the 65-year...A letter, seen by Marketing, from COI head of procurement Bob Ager to suppliers, states that "at some point in December (likely to be the 14 December) COI will cease taking on new work".
Ager adds: "This is to allow us to manage the closure of COI in an orderly fashion in the new year."
COI clients ...