Linda Cohen

Experience

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  Haymarket

  Jan 1980 - Jan 1984

  Sales Executive
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  EMAP

  Jan 1984 - Jan 1987

  Advertisement Manager
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  Thomson

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1989

  Advertisement Director
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  Freelance PR, Sales Promotion and Marketing Consultant

  Jan 1989 - Jan 2005

  Consultant
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  Red Signal PR

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2009

  Account Director
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  Lily Pad PR

  Mar 2009 - now

  Owner

  As an agency we specialise in helping consumer brands, retailers, digital startups, organisations and charities spread the word with a view to delivering a tangible response – awareness, footfall, traffic, sign ups or sales.If you're looking for flash offices and expensive lunches, we're not the agency for you. We don't believe in squandering your PR budget on our overheads leaving you left with little more than a few hours a week from a couple of junior members of staff.All staff in the agency are senior and bring a wealth of experience and an inability to take no for an answer when securing coverage. We recognise that you are running a business and we understand our part in ROI.A small selection of the recent clients we've worked with:Stanfords - World's biggest retailer of travel books and mapsRoyal Osteoporosis SocietyKinteract - education appKate Hudson's Fabletics - athleisureTribe Sports - performance running apparelRabble - have fun, get fit, meet peopleCBD Virtue - pharmaceutical grade Californian CBDTinkture - the finest, pure, rose gin from CornwallOne and Only Pro - Property investor portalChaperhome - personal safety appJustFab - fashion styling serviceGreat Modern Artists by Andy Tuohy - home-ware and gift items available at Tate and MoMAWowzr.co.uk - gifts and gadgets Rex London - design-led gifts and home-ware Mondaytofriday.comVouchercodes.co.ukMyHammer.co.ukMyBuilder.comWelovelocal.com Reglazeyourglasses.com Three Choirs Vineyard CFH Docmail Charities - IAPB, RECLAIM, Suzy Lamplugh Trust, The Anne Frank Trust UK, Working Chance, The Geared for Giving Campaign, Royal Osteoporosis Society See less Show less

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  Read with me

  May 2020 - now

  Director

  Currently 1 in 5 children leave primary school unable to read properly and never catch up*. These children do less well at school, have dramatically reduced employment choices and earning opportunities, and a greater chance of going to prison. The UK has the worst literacy rates in the developed world.Read with me runs a simple, low cost scheme through which employers give employees half an hour twice a week to hear children read in a local school.The scheme is vitally important to ensure that our youngest children, from the most challenging backgrounds, learn to read and communicate well. Show less