Archive for November, 2011
Event Production Awards Smashes Table Target
Table sales for the inaugural Event Production Awards are a massive 25 per cent up against target, two and half months ahead of the big night. Senior Event Manager, Michelle Lewis said: “The response to these awards has been phenomenal. We’re absolutely delighted with the volume and quality of the suppliers and promoters that have [...]
Unique Delegate Management System Gives Robinson College The Competitive Edge
A Cambridge College is achieving a UK first with the introduction of a customised state-of-the-art system to help its conference clients manage delegate bookings. Robinson College in Cambridge is working in partnership with Grass Roots Delegate Management Services (DMS), a leading international meetings, events and communications agency, to create a professional delegate management system, which [...]
JB Events celebrates 10th year with live Kingfisher Dubai event
Reading based JB Events, the live events management solutions company, celebrated its 10th anniversary on 29th November by organising a three-day event in Dubai for its long-standing client Kingfisher plc. Kingfisher is the holding company for some of the largest home improvement brands in Europe and Asia, including B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama and Brico Depot. 320 [...]
Internal Expos On The Rise
Coventry-based Priority Exhibitions, the exhibition design and build experts, has seen an increase in internal or supplier exhibitions. The growth in internal and supplier exhibitions is an interesting trend, which shows that businesses are focusing on building relationships with suppliers and on training their staff in order to get the most from these relationships. Most [...]
Association of British Professional Conference Organisers Conference Cloud Campaign Supporters Grow
Managing Director of evential, Cheryl Clarke, commented: “As an events business we work with hotels of all sizes throughout the world. It is a definite advantage when hotels offer free WIFI to guests, particularly when we have an ever increasing number of clients requesting internet access for presentations, online demonstrations and social media tools including [...]
EventCity appoints SO Group as their mains and piped services supplier
The venue was keen to partner with an organisation that shared their values and felt that SO Group could not only provide the services required but had the vision and foresight to maximise the potential of this fantastic new venue. Speaking on behalf of EventCity, Andy Orr, Managing Director said: EventCity is delighted to appoint [...]
Ticketscript launches industry’s first plug & play mobile event app
Ticketscript, mobile and social ticketing solutions and Kawet aFrench start-up specialising in disruptive innovation for mobile apps, launch aplug & play mobile event app. The new mobile event app will allow event organisers to create and submit their own professional event app for eventvisitors to download. Mobile event apps provide event organisers with the opportunity [...]
Thorns furnishes VIP suite at star-studded Christmas show
Thorns Group will join a star-studded line-up to ensure Birmingham’s biggest Christmas show Rock with Laughter is a resounding hit. The furniture and catering specialist is supplying banqueting tables and chairs in the party pavilion at the LG Arena where VIP ticket holders will be wined and dined before they take their seats for an [...]
XL Video at the MTV European Music Awards
XL Video UK supplied specialist LED and IMAG projection screens plus control to the 2011 MTV European Music Awards, staged at Belfast Odyssey Arena, Northern Ireland, and broadcast live to 45 countries worldwide. The UK’s leading live music video production specialist has been involved with the glamour and buzz of this high profile event for [...]
Belfast firmly on the musical map with the 2011 MTV Music Awards.
Considered by some the musical version of the Olympics, MTV considered bids from a number of cities before settling Belfast for its annual awards show. Star Events Group Ltd provided a VerTech 2015CPL stage system for live performances from local super group Snow Patrol. The stage type and access features were specified by Duchess Iredale [...]
Fabric structures industry calls for improved safety for inflatables
MUTA, the fabric structures trade association, today calls for event organisers to improve safety practices in their use of inflatable structures to reduce the risk of accidents or failures. With the publication of a new safety guide, “Guidance for the Design, Procurement & Use of Inflatable Temporary Structures: A White Paper”, developed with industry leader [...]
Event Production Awards 2012 Announces New Sponsor
The Event Production Awards is pleased to announce that Millbrook Events will sponsor the Innovation Of The Year at the ceremony, scheduled to take place on Wednesday 1 February at London Olympia. Event Director, Andy Gibb said: “We’re delighted that Millbrook Events has chosen to support the first ever Event Production Awards. It’s a testament [...]
ADLIB Designs and Installs Audio Solution for Manchester Velodrome
Liverpool, UK based ADLIB’s specialist installation division has designed and installed a complete new CODA Audio system – the first fixed install of its type in the UK utilising CODA’s LA8 (compact) and LA4 (ultra compact) line array speakers at The Manchester Velodrome, the country’s National Cycling Centre. This is the latest in a series [...]
Aztec’s Business Support Centre a hit at World Travel Market
Aztec Event Services, in collaboration with Reed Exhibitions, has created a Business Support Centre service for exhibitors and visitors and launched it at World Travel Market, one of the leading global events for the travel industry. The Business Support Centre sold useful consumables such as batteries, paper, memory sticks, charging cables and UK plug adaptors, [...]
Two-way radio specialists Wall to Wall Communications manages business growth with MCS-rm hire solution
Wall to Wall Communications, one of the UK’s leading independent two-way radio equipment suppliers, is using the MCS-rm hire management solution from MCS Global Ltd to gain greater management control of its expanding hire business. Charlotte Rich, Office Manager at Wall to Wall Communications, comments: “Our main business objectives in implementing MCS-rm were to change [...]
Breaking News – NOEA President Re-elected
The National Outdoor Events Association has announced that Richard Limb has been re-elected to the post of president. The announcement comes following the associations AGM, which took place today at Bath’s Guildhall. Voting took place during the AGM and in advance via an electronic and postal ballot. Members also re-elected Jan Booth to the post [...]
Event Management and the Cloud
This article looks at event management and the cloud and highlights two popular event software solutions that can be deployed via the cloud. Cloud computing is the delivery of shared resources, software and information over the Internet. It is a relatively new delivery model for IT services and provides users with a completely different way [...]
The NEC Group’s top chef is served a top award
Paul Gould, Group Executive Head Chef at Amadeus, The NEC Group’s catering division, has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the FSM awards dinner in London last night (Monday Nov 21). Alyson Cawley, Managing Director of Amadeus said: “We are delighted that Paul’s hard work, commitment, passion and immense creativity and vision have [...]
Specialist shopping centre events company has the X factor
Specialist shopping centre events and entertainment company, Maynineteen, is celebrating a fantastic turn out for its second and third lights switch-on events of the season held on Thursday and Friday evening. Peter Andre performed to an ecstatic audience at Ashford Designer Outlet in Kent on November 17th attracting around 10,000 people and again on November [...]
Cavendish Group appointed as an official agent for the Diamond Jubilee Pageant 2012
Hospitality and event agent, the Cavendish Group has been appointed as an official hospitality sales agent for The Diamond Jubilee Pageant to be held in May next year in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The concept, created by The Hpower Group, will see the show ‘travel around the world in 60 years and 90 minutes,’ [...]
Keith Prowse Warns UK’s corporates to be mindful of being mis-sold corporate hospitality
Keith Prowse, the UK’s most prolific supplier of official hospitality, has put out a warning to the UK’s corporates to be mindful of being mis-sold corporate hospitality. The World Athletics Championships 2017, the latest addition to the UK’s Golden Decade of Sport, has spawned a flurry of activity by unscrupulous suppliers seeking to cash in. [...]
Stageco install platforms for success at 2011 MTV EMA
Internationally renowned staging specialists Stageco installed the curved performance stages for the 2011 MTV EMA in Belfast’s Odyssey Arena, 6th November 2011. Stageco applied its considerable broadcast awards experience to provide the decking substructure for the MTV EMA curved stages, presenter platforms and camera platforms. Project manager Martin Beckers, along with a team of three [...]
Max Wifi launches venue wifi service at Mermaid Conference and Events Centre
WiFi and Communications Company Max WiFi, announces its newVenue WiFi Service for managed venues with the Mermaid Conference and Events Centre being the first to have it installed. Using the latest enterprise grade Meraki equipment, Max WiFi has installed a Meraki MX70 Router and 25 Meraki MR16 dual radio access points. The Mermaid can now [...]
Lord’s expects corporate hospitality to thrive in 2012 alongside Olympics
Lord’s Cricket Ground has forecast that cricket hospitality at the Ground will not be affected by its status as an official venue for the 2012 London Olympic Games. The Home of Cricket has released 2012 hospitality packages for general sale, including Test matches and One Day Internationals against South Africa and West Indies and an [...]
Steeldeck Rentals Shortlisted for Two Awards
Steeldeck Rentals has been shortlisted for two awards in The Event Production Awards 2012. They have been recognised in the Best Staging Company of the Year and Best Seating Supplier of the Year categories. Steeldeck’s construction of the Bompas & Parr interactive pyramid at the Big Chill Festival was the successful entry for the Best [...]
Eventia celebrates excellence – The Eventia Awards 2011
Over 700 top events industry professionals celebrated a spectacular night of awards at the Hilton Park Lane on Friday 18th November. The Eventia Awards honour outstanding business-to-business and business-to-consumer events including corporate events, product launches, company exhibitions, presentations, hospitality, celebratory events, meetings and conferences of all sizes and formats both overseas and in the UK. [...]
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