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The communications consultancy Flag has closed its US office and will service clients from Britain.
Flag, which has Chevron, Ford and Wal-Mart among its North American clients, said that closure of its small Chicago office two years after it opened was a logistical exercise and did not indicate falling US orders.
‘Business has actually gone up in the States, but the majority of our expertise is based in our Cambridge office, and we’ve been flying teams out from Britain on a project-by-project basis,’ said Flag.
‘It just became apparent over time that we were not getting good value out of having a Chicago office, and that flying people out was a very workable way of doing things.’
Flag’s main consultant in the US, Christina Siun O’Connell, and its long-time managing director Rob Cameron have left the company. Cameron becomes chief executive of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International, which is based in Bonn, Germany.
A number of British-based CSR consultancies and organizations, including SustainAbility and AccountAbility, have established bases in the US over the past two years as more companies there have begun to expand their corporate responsibility programmes and to produce annual sustainability reports.
Flag, which has Chevron, Ford and Wal-Mart among its North American clients, said that closure of its small Chicago office two years after it opened was a logistical exercise and did not indicate falling US orders.
‘Business has actually gone up in the States, but the majority of our expertise is based in our Cambridge office, and we’ve been flying teams out from Britain on a project-by-project basis,’ said Flag.
‘It just became apparent over time that we were not getting good value out of having a Chicago office, and that flying people out was a very workable way of doing things.’
Flag’s main consultant in the US, Christina Siun O’Connell, and its long-time managing director Rob Cameron have left the company. Cameron becomes chief executive of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International, which is based in Bonn, Germany.
A number of British-based CSR consultancies and organizations, including SustainAbility and AccountAbility, have established bases in the US over the past two years as more companies there have begun to expand their corporate responsibility programmes and to produce annual sustainability reports.
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