The UK Event Awards are back for 2012 and are now accepting entries. The awards, which are organised by The Drum are now in their third year officially launched at the Conference and Hospitality Show back in April. This year categories include Best Marketing Strategy, Best Conference, Best Experiential Event and new for 2012 – [...]
Members of the SIA’s Approved Contractor Scheme are continuing to raise the bar, results published today have shown. Figures for the past year have shown that there has been an average improvement of 11 points across all approved contractors. Every year all approved contractors, except for those on certain Passport schemes, must assess their performance [...]
A Cambridge College is unveiling a major drive to demonstrate its commitment to meeting the needs of its clients in the current economic climate. Robinson College is launching Service+, a package of different products tailored to suit its client portfolio and their specific requirements. Included under the Service+ umbrella, is College+ which has been introduced [...]
Working at height is something that will be required during the build, running and break down of most events. However, the definition of what ‘working at height’ actually is should serve as a reminder to organisers of the important role played by event safety consultants. Chris Hannam from safety consultants Stagesafe says that some of [...]
The UK Event Awards are back for 2012 and are now accepting entries. The awards, which are organised by The Drum are now in their third year officially launched at the Conference and Hospitality Show back in April. This year categories include Best Marketing Strategy, Best Conference, Best Experiential Event and new for 2012 – [...]
Grapevine Events is pleased to celebrate its 1st birthday and the launch of its brand new website. The new website marks the anniversary of a rollercoaster year for Grapevine Events as they encountered their first year in business during an extremely hostile and unstable economic environment. Established in May 2011, Grapevine Events is a [...]
Organisers have been accused of being over zealous with restrictions for Worcester’s Olympic Torch celebrations. About 10,000 people – including spectators and performers – are expected to gather at Worcestershire County Cricket Club on the evening of Thursday, May 24, to officially welcome the Olympic flame to the city. More than 7,000 people entered a [...]
All Event Hire is an events company that provides stylish, contemporary, designer furniture products for events, weddings, exhibitions, birthdays, parties and conferences throughout Scotland and the UK. Our focus is on the quality of the products and a simple means of making them visible and available to our clients. We source the best products from [...]
Entering a new market is a tricky enough prospect at the best of times. Doing it in the midst of a financial crisis and in a competitive market may seem ludicrous. For EventServ, however, the decision to establish a UK division in 2010 was the result of several years of market research and with a [...]
Leicestershire-based trackway and event flooring solutions specialists, Eco Trackway & PRIMA Flooring was formed by key Directors of the original PRIMA Group who bought all PRIMA’s assets including large stocks, goodwill and manufacturing rights together with tooling, over a year ago. The company played an integral part in the success of two of the UK’s [...]
Garden enthusiasts are being charged up to £300 for black market tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show — six times their face value — as touts cash in on the demand for the horticultural showpiece. All 157,000 tickets for the event sold out in record time and organisers have warned people not to buy tickets [...]
Leith Festival has beaten off funding fears to return, Event organisers called an emergency general meeting in December to try to save the Festival after it lost thousands of pounds in funding. Board member Rowan Campbell told the Evening News at the time that the 2012 festival may have to be restricted to its traditional [...]
A popular festival featuring VW campervans and Beetles has been cancelled due to the wet weather. The Dubs at the Park event was due to be held on Saturday, May 20, at Easthampstead Park Conference Centre in Peacock Lane. However, the wet weather has left large parts of the centre’s grounds unusable and inaccessible to [...]
Around 40 writers will be heading to the Vale of Glamorgan for the Cowbridge Book Festival. Organiser Stella Cheeseman reveals the ups and downs of putting on such an event I might have run a mile if I’d known what I was letting myself in for. As the award-winning novelist Belinda Bauer sat talking to [...]
Oasis Graphic Co delivered an FA Cup performance by branding London’s Cumberland Hotel for RPMC whose client Budweiser, was hosting a corporate hospitality event for the 2012 FA Cup Final. Oasis MD Simon Osborne said: “This was our first project for RPMC and a prestigious venue and brand with which to be entrusted. I am [...]
Leading global football stars including Manchester City’s Edin Dzeko, Manchester United’s Luis Nani and Tom Cleverly and Everton’s Jack Rodwell were at EventCity last week for the launch of the new Adidas Predator Lethal Zones boot. The unique event pitted some of the best players in the world against each other to showcase the capabilities [...]
Over 60 members of the HBAA gathered at etc.venues’ newest property in St Paul’s to discuss the financial implications affecting the sector. Subject matters included TOMS, VAT recovery, billback and commission payment issues. The HBAA Finance forum reflects the association’s drive for best practice and ensures a 360 degree approach to driving professionalism across every function within [...]
The 3rd Annual PLASA Rigging Conference will take place on Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 September 2012 at the Earls Court Conference Centre in London. This unique 2-day international event explores and debates all aspects of this specialist section of the industry. Running alongside PLASA 2012, the Rigging Conference has become a regular date in [...]
Following its success in March, International Confex, the UK’s premier exhibition for the event industry, has announced it’s Buyer Advisory Board for the 2013 show, a new initiative that will gain closer engagement with senior event buyers, and help curate the experience to meet the needs of visitors to the event. The group already consists [...]
Stage Electrics has announced the expansion of its senior management team with the appointment of a new Managing Director. This move further strengthens the senior leadership team with Dan Aldridge taking up the post of Managing Director. Dan has been involved in the company for over six years, both as Operations Director and most recently [...]
The Arena Group has appointed Piers Wilson as the company’s new finance director. Piers will be based at the Group’s London head office in Haymarket, with overall responsibility for the finance function and corporate development for the expanding group. Arena Group CEO Greg Lawless says: “We are delighted to have secured the appointment of Piers [...]
A Cambridge College is unveiling a major drive to demonstrate its commitment to meeting the needs of its clients in the current economic climate. Robinson College is launching Service+, a package of different products tailored to suit its client portfolio and their specific requirements. Included under the Service+ umbrella, is College+ which has been introduced [...]
Corporate events are taking off at one of the UK’s newest hotels, with packages attracting both national and international business guests. The DoubleTree by Hilton Newcastle International Airport hotel, located just yards from the airport terminal, was specifically designed to cater for the needs of business people across the North East, as well as those [...]
Icons of British electronic music Leftfield, with the help of Red Bull Studios London, recently curated a special show at London’s Brixton O2 Academy in aid of War Child. Leftfield, with a line-up of friends and special guests, provided an impressive show for fans while raising much-needed funds for War Child. For the event, Prolyte Group supplied [...]
The latest technology from the world’s leading AV display manufacturers will be showcased at the Visual Innovations 2012 Showcase in Birmingham and Manchester on Tuesday 22nd and Thursday 24th May. Panasonic, Samsung, NEC, Orion, U-Touch, eyevis, Unicol, Sharp and NanoLumens will each showcase the latest videowall and large format display innovations at the two events, [...]
EventScotland has today (16th May) announced details of plans to work with British Cycling and UK Sport to develop a proposal to host the opening stages of the 2017 Tour de France. The proposal builds on work carried out by EventScotland over the last few years and aims to engage with as many partners as possible [...]
George Orwell’s dystopian classic ’1984′ covers themes such as surveillance, mind control and deception. Sadly, despite what some might believe, RFID at live events falls far short of anything quite as grand… 1. You cannot track the whereabouts of someone wearing an RFID wristband. The RFID tags that Intellitix use at live events are passive [...]
Christian Faversham Group the Hampshire based family run event hire group have recently purchased the Event Services Group well known for stainless steel kitchen equipment and power rental. Combining the hire stock from both Event Service Group (ESG) and Christian Faversham Group (CFG) allows us to serve the catering and event trade with low cost [...]
Aztec Event Services is thinking big by behaving leaner, using lean management tools to change the workflows and organisation in its new workspace. With the acquisition of an additional unit at its Mitcham site on the horizon, Aztec decided to take the opportunity to review its processes and working practices to see if the company [...]
The pioneering technology, which works in a similar way to an Oyster card, has been used for years in the U.S. in a bid to cut down on long queues and fraud. But some gig-goers have raised concerns about the bands, labelling the device, which could also identify the user and trace their steps during [...]
Organisers used GPS tracking devises and CCTV to orchestrate the smooth flow of traffic for a convoy from the International Olympic Committee amid concerns the capital’s creaking road network was not up to the major event. London’s bid committee chief executive Sir Keith Mills has revealed the fleet of delegates were tracked on every inch [...]
The Event Organisers of a popular music festival in Essex have announced they have cancelled this year’s event because they cannot afford the policing costs. The Kelvedon Free Music Festival was due to take place on July 14 but following a meeting between representatives from the organising committee, Essex Police, Essex County Fire and Rescue [...]
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