22 May 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
The Government is preparing to review its media buying business, currently handled by WPP's M4C...the Government Procurement Service and in a statement it said it plans to review its central media buying ...
was outlined at the Agile Government Communications Conference for suppliers in Westminster yesterday ...
to inform the future strategy".
Last year, Government advertising from its various departments commanded ...
26 Mar 2012
| by Ian Darby
The Government has confirmed that the COI, which officially closes on Friday, will be replaced by a...As expected, the Government Communications Centre, led by Jenny Grey, the executive director of government communications, will have a significantly smaller headcount than the COI s 400.
The new unit ...
will be appointing a framework to handle "integrated communications".
Grey revealed that the Government does ...
14 Mar 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
Lingerie retailer Figleaves has escaped an advertising ban despite a Government-led clampdown...on board the recommendations of the Government-commissioned Bailey Review into the commercialisation ...
23 Feb 2012
| by Ian Darby
In a response to a government call for evidence on Tupe (transfer of undertakings for protection of employees), the trade body has pushed for a formal consultation in the hope that this will lead to a change in the rules.
The IPA said that the 2006 amendments that widened the scope of Tupe to include almost all ...
23 Jan 2012
| by Sara Kimberley
of the block inform people that when "you contribute your employers will too" ... "and so will the government ...
19 Jan 2012
| by Jeremy Lee
that all government media buying - including that beyond COI - should be handled by the WPP agency M4C....This has resulted in M4C, which was launched in 2010 to handle COI's business, picking up the accounts for Visit Britain, London Partners, VisitEngland, part-government-funded campaigns and some NHS ...
government media buying until 2014 and expects its billings to exceed 100 million in 2012. ...
13 Jan 2012
| by Sara Kimberley
of the UK government, we may well find the next Mark Zuckerberg, Charles Saatchi or Sir Alan Sugar ...
08 Dec 2011
| by our Parliamentary correspondent
The squeeze on the Government's advertising budget was attacked as a "false economy" this week...Simon Burns, the Health Minister, said his department spent 4.21 million during the Coalition s first year, down from 60.28 million in the final year of the previous Labour government.
Spending on the department s flagship Change4Life campaign dropped from 9.2 million to 1.61 million and on the anti ...
01 Dec 2011
| by Sara Kimberley
new role of president of Central Europe....As part of his new remit across Central Europe, Edwards will now work across Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania, as well as the UK, as the network looks to capitalise on fast-growing markets.
Edwards will continue in his current UK role and report to the chairman ...
11 Nov 2011
Lowe & Partners has teamed up with Central Saint Martins to launch Nova, an annual award