The British Association of Communicators in Business (CiB) is to hold an EGM to let its members decide whether the controversial plan to change its name to the Institute of Internal Communication will go through. The CiB, founded in 1949, is no stranger to renames – it changed its name from the British Association of Industrial Editors in 1995.

If the vote goes through the Association will become an Institution on the 13 May of next year.

CiB national chairman Dominic Walters says: “We’ve had all the arguments and debated the points over the last three years and now is the time for us all to decide.

“I sincerely hope that we get a huge vote so that the will of the majority is quite clearly demonstrated and then, no matter what the decision, we can all move forward.”

The EGM is called for the 23 September.