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UKHO appoints IAS b2b Marketing

14/12/09

A global leader in paper and electronic nautical charts and publications, UKHO (United Kingdom Hydrographic Office) has appointed IAS b2b Marketing to their roster of agencies to take the brand through the industry’s switch to digital navigation systems, which becomes mandatory from 2012.

Operating as a Trading Fund agency of the Ministry of Defence, the UKHO has been charting the world’s oceans for over 200 years and has a world-renowned Admiralty brand of paper and digital products and services.

Note to editors:

IAS b2b Marketing:
Established in 1973, IAS b2b Marketing one of the top three B2B brand and communications agency serving the UK and, through its BBN Network, a number of International market-leading clients. Currently employing some 60 B2B specialists, IAS is based in Bollington, in south Manchester.

IAS b2b Marketing is part of Media Square plc, a holding company based in London and quoted on the London stock market. Media Square has an annual turnover of c£150m, employs 1,000 employees in seven countries and boasts more than 700 clients worldwide.

About UKHO

  1. The UKHO, which is part of the Ministry of Defence, has been charting the world’s oceans for more than 200 years with the primary aim of providing navigational services for the Royal Navy and merchant mariners to save and protect lives at sea. In addition it also serves the small craft and leisure mariners and provides a range of consultancy services.
  2. The UKHO produces a worldwide series of some 3,300 paper nautical charts and 160 publications under the Admiralty brand and has a growing portfolio of Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs). These charts are sold globally and used by nearly 70 per cent of international shipping.
  3. The UKHO is a Trading Fund which means it is a government agency owned by the MoD with the freedom to trade commercially to generate revenue and cover running costs.
  4. The UKHO also plays a central role, in support of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, in discharging the navigation element of the UK’s Safety of Life at Sea Treaty obligations for waters of UK national responsibility.


For press further information, please contact:
Nikki Poyser / Sam Dorney
Tel: 01625 578578
Email: Nicola.poyser@iasb2b.com / sam.dorney@iasb2b.com

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