Archive for April, 2011
The true economic impact of The Royal Wedding
Even as London gears up to host what is being touted as the spectacle of the century, and the tourism sector of the capital hopes to rake in a bonanza from the royal wedding, there’s a rather gloomy economic cloud just waiting to rain on the celebrations . If Prince William and Catherine’s marriage is [...]
Surgeons sign for ACC Liverpool until 2020
The Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) has committed to holding its annual International Surgical Congress at ACC Liverpool, home to BT Convention Centre and Echo Arena, on a 3-year rotating contract until 2020. Following ASGBI’s successful 90th anniversary Congress in 2010 at the venue, the Association has confirmed it will return [...]
Big Break for Alexandra Palace
The Masters, snooker’s most prestigious invitation tournament, will have a new home in 2012 as it moves to Alexandra Palace taking place from the 15th – 22nd January. The event is one of the highlights of the snooker calendar, featuring an elite field of the world’s top 16 players. Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Selby, John Higgins [...]
ESSA announces date and theme for the 2011 G50+
The ESSA ‘G50+Conference’ is being held at the Business Design Centre on 12 July and is open to all ESSA members. The 2011 Conference theme is ‘Insight, Innovation, Inspiration’ and the content will provide a unique mix of information and will do exactly as suggested in the title. The final line up of speakers will [...]
Camden proves an ‘Ideal’ partner for Media 10
Furniture supplier Camden Exhibition Services has signed a two-year contract with one of the most exciting exhibition companies in the industry. Media 10 added a clutch of prestigious industry gongs to its portfolio last year. These included three accolades at the industry’s highly regarded Event Awards – Best Consumer Exhibition for the Ideal Home Show [...]
Gearhouse In2Structures Launches COMBI DOME
Gearhouse In2Structures launched its new COMBI DOME venue structure at a special event staged at the Country Club Johannesburg in Woodmead, Johannesburg, South Africa. The 2 day launch event received a massive response, with over 600 people visiting the new structure – a 6 bay version of the 20 metre wide COMBI DOME. This was [...]
Sign & Digital UK 2011 posts an impressive 22% visitor increase
Faversham House Group, organisers of Sign & Digital UK, are delighted to confirm that 6,756 visitors attended the show at the NEC last week. This is an impressive 22% increase on the 2010 show, reflecting the renewed optimism in the market and the event’s role in showcasing the very latest sign making and digital printing [...]
Showsec on Wakefield Wildcats Winning Team
Wakefield Wildcats’ flying start in 2011’s rugby league season has seen them awarding a new stadium security contract to Showsec. The event crowd management specialists have been employed for their professionalism and to assist in the club in their aim to gain a Super League license for the 2012 – 2015 season. Showsec’s first season [...]
Event Cornwall officially launches The Outdoor Screenings Season
A season of unique film experiences at locations throughout Cornwall has been unveiled by award-winning company Event Cornwall. The Outdoor Screenings Season combines classic film with stunning locations, projected onto an 8m x 4m inflatable screening, enabling up to 500 people to attend. The season of eight events kicks off with a screening of Keira [...]
Mojo Barriers Opens Northern Office
Mojo Barriers’ new Northern office opens in April 2011, introducing a more affordable, professional stage barriers service to the North of England. The announcement of the new Mojo Barriers facility, located near York, will be made at PLASA North on 19th – 20th of April. Mojo Barriers has moved a significant stock of the company’s [...]
Cisco joins Eventia and signs up to speak at Summer conference
Cisco has become the latest in a growing number of corporate companies to join leading events industry association Eventia. Along with brands including the COI, Barclays, Linklaters, UCAS Media, FICO and JP Morgan, Cisco has signed up to engage and connect with Eventia’s broad membership of events industry professionals. Gerd De Bruycker, Cisco Group Manager [...]
David Todd pulls plug on the Edinburgh Festivals Cavalcade
Promoter David Todd has pulled the plug on the Edinburgh Festivals Cavalcade despite winning a grant from the city council only weeks ago. The local authority had forced him to relocate the event, which had attracted crowds of up to 250,000 in its heyday on Princes Street, to Holyrood Park in the last two years. [...]
Chile’s Festival de Viña del Mar chooses Robert Juliat Followspots
Six Robert Juliat followspots were chosen to highlight the 52nd Viña del Mar International Song Festival in Chile, the most important music festival in Latin America. Orbita Producciones of Santiago purchased four RJ Aramis 4.5°-8° 2500W HMI followspots and two RJ Flo 13°-24° 1800W MSR followspots especially for the event from Robert Juliat distributor, Lighting [...]
Entec Supplies Sound for Teenage Cancer Trust
Entec Sound moved into London’s Royal Albert Hall for the 7 day run of 2011 Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) shows, which kicked off with a comedy night on the Monday, followed by a dynamic mix of music for the rest of the week, headlined by Squeeze, Biffy Clyro, Roger Daltrey, Beady Eye, The Editors and [...]
RSVP opens bringing new products and services
RSVP 2011 opens its door this morning at the Business Design Centre where visitors will find a wealth of new products and services being launched alongside brands that have never exhibited within the industry before. Hawthorns has partnered with renowned American company Dockside Canvas to launch ‘Hawthorn Walling Systems’ (HWS) which designs and builds state-of-the-art, [...]
4D appoints new project manager
Tom Stevens joins 4D as project manager as the company continues to grow, he is the fifth appointment in twelve months and brings considerable experience in aerospace industry to the company. A graduate of Luton University, Tom joined the company from an exhibition design house where he developed his account and project management skills, taking [...]
New event operations manager at Millbrook Events
Millbrook Events has appointed Dave Charlton as the new operations manager at The Concept Centre, near Milton Keynes. Charlton has over 16 years’ experience working in the events and training industry, including owning and operating his own events company for 10 years. He takes on the role after five years sub-contracting into Millbrook as a [...]
Bristol Harbour Festival opens doors to experiential campaigns
Bristol’s biggest cultural event, the Bristol Harbour Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary this year from Friday 29 – Sunday 31 July 2011, and is opening it’s doors to selected brands to produce experiential campaigns at this year’s event. Attracting audiences of over 250,000 from Bristol communities and the surrounding regions as well as national and [...]
US Events Can Count on Mojo Barriers
Mojo Barriers launched two new progressive crowd safety innovations into the American live events market at Live Event Expo on 12th April 2011. Gatekeeper and Barrier Load Monitoring System (BLMS) are revolutionary products created by Mojo Barriers to address the changing needs of the live event industry and ensure the safest event for both the [...]
Arena Group temporary overlay for the Virgin London Marathon
The Arena Group provided sixty temporary tower structures and 1,450 temporary tiered seats overlooking the finish-line in front of BuckinghamPalace for the capitals largest sporting event, the Virgin London Marathon, 17th April 2011. Arena supplied all of the mile and kilometre marker towers along the 26.2mile route, which the 36,000 runners passed by from Blackheath [...]
Melville makes the grade for Brand Licensing Europe
Brand Licensing Europe, the largest licensing rights exhibition on the continent, has granted Melville Exhibition and Event Services a three-year contract to supply all services to the show. Brand Licensing Europe is growing year on year, and Melville will supply a full-service package, including shell scheme, electrics, furniture, logistics, and custom build and will offer [...]
EMS launches pan-European tour for IT giant Lenovo
Marketing roadshow specialist Event Marketing Solutions (EMS) has launched a Europe-wide roadshow for leading global technology brand Lenovo. With 45 stops in nine Western European countries, it’s the fourth EMS-managed roadshow to set off across Europe in as many months. The ‘Lenovo Roadshow’ – the first vehicle-based marketing campaign for the brand – will give [...]
Three Winning Horses for Al Laith at Dubai World Cup
Dubai, UAE based Al Laith Event Services energised imagination and some incredible teamwork to come up with an inventive engineering solution to construct three massive mobile scenic horses’ heads, which were an integral part of the spectacular closing parade of the 2011 Dubai World Cup horseracing event at Meydan Racecourse, Dubai. Working for the show’s [...]
Echo Barrier and ZND UK form new partnership
iEcho Barrier, manufacturers of ‘Echo H1’ the innovative new solution to noise control, and ZND UK, the UK’s leading manufacturer of temporary fencing, hoarding and pedestrian barriers, have announced a new partnership which will see the Echo H1 offered to ZND UK clients as part of their product range. The Echo H1 is based on [...]
Old RoyalNavalCollege strengthens sales team
Lime Venue Portfolio, has continued its strategy of strengthening its sales team at its venues with the appointment of Joanna Zmienko at the OldRoyalNavalCollege. As sales and revenue manager, Joanna will be responsible for promoting the baroque masterpiece as an upscale venue for corporate, private events and awards. Whilst managing existing clients from the financial [...]
Britain’s Got ‘Live Sound’ Talent
Finding Britain’s next great live sound engineers is more than a hobby for Darryn de la Soul whose new agency, SoulSound, is helping recent live sound graduates find work – and lots of it! With promoters cutting back and budgets freezing, starting out in the live sound engineering industry can be a daunting prospect. That’s [...]
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