Category: Event Industry News
BRIT Awards guests experience RFID wristbands
ID&C supplied The BRIT Awards with security wristbands to identify 10,000 guests, while over 1000 VIPs used RFID micro-chipped wristbands for cashless payments at the after party bar. Held at London’s 02 Arena last Tuesday 21st Feb, official partners, ID&C worked with BRITs organisers to supply a security wristband suite of 23 individual designs, each [...]
Rock Oyster Festival ticket sales suspended
Ticket sales for the third Rock Oyster Festival, due to take place in June, have been suspended. The decision was taken after councillors imposed new licence conditions for the event, which is held in St Minver in north Cornwall. Organisers said the new noise limits made the festival “unworkable”. The limit was imposed following a [...]
DBN supplies LED and Control Solution for Whitworth Art Gallery
Manchester based dbn Lighting has supplied a custom LED and control solution to the city’s Whitworth Art Gallery which will run for three months as part of the “Cotton : Global Threads” exhibition – a compelling story about the production, consumption and global trade in cotton. The light work is designed by artist Liz Rideal [...]
Maynineteen Expands Its Team As It Commences 2012’s Delivery Phase
Manchester based, specialist shopping centre events and entertainment company, Maynineteen, has recruited Nadia Widdall as Account Manager. Nadia joins with extensive experiential event experience most recently working with blue-chip clients like Nike, Visit Scotland, Shell and GSK for a national agency (TRO). Prior to that, Nadia worked for a shopping centre events and entertainment company [...]
PLASA 2012 Free Registration Ends In 48 Hours!
The PLASA 2012 free registration offer ends in 48 hours! Over 9,000 people have taken advantage of the free registration offer for this year’s PLASA 2012, taking place at Earls Court in London from 9 – 12 September. Register before midnight on the 29th February and save £20 on the standard ticket price. All previous [...]
Dedicated degree course launched for UK venue managers
One of Britain’s growth industries is building on its success by developing a series of bespoke academic courses, which can lead to an honours degree, to ensure venue managers stay at the forefront of their profession. Neil Levett, Director of the UK Venue Managers Association, told members attending the launch of the course at Wembley: [...]
Entec Struts its Stuff at London Fashion Week
UK lighting and sound rental company Entec supplied lighting production for three high profile shows at London Fashion Week – Paul Smith, Mulberry and Moschino. A projection system and media server was also provided for Paul Smith, and all three projects were once again managed for Entec by Adam Stevenson. Paul Smith featured the largest [...]
Ticketscript announces Jason Legg as Head of Sales UK
Ticketscript, European market leader in online, mobile and social ticketing solutions has announced today the appointment of Jason Legg as Head of Sales UK. Jason Legg comments, “I’m really chuffed to be joining ticketscript as they firmly establish themselves in the UK. Their innovative and ambitious plans for the UK event market made it an [...]
Star Events Group Celebrate A Double Win
The Inaugural Event Production Awards held at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane and hosted by the comedian Mark Steel saw Star Events Group Ltd win overall “Supreme Supplier of the year” and less than 2 weeks later they picked up Rigging company of the year at the Tpi Awards, an event which has consistently grown [...]
XL Video for The Brits 2012
XL Video provided video production – including LED screens, projection system, PPU and cameras for the 2012 Brit Awards, staged for the second year running at London’s O2 Arena. The event was the 11th year in a row that XL Video and (XL Project manager Paul Wood) has been a supplier to the event, working [...]
Muta Health And Safety Certification Recognised By London 2012
The StructureSafe on-site safety training course for marquee and temporary fabric structures crews has gained recognition by the Olympic organisers, MUTA announces today. StructureSafe is now one of several approved certification schemes that the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Ltd (LOCOG), the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), and their partners will accept [...]
AIF Launches Monthly Meet-up ‘The Festival Social’
The Association of Independent Festivals is establishing a monthly night of networking and live music dubbed ‘The Festival Social’ on the first Tuesday of each month. Aiming to create a forum for informal dialogue among the festival business, AIF will invite the movers and shakers of the sector to join them once a month for [...]
Airshow contract sees De Boer building world’s largest temporary exhibition venue
Structure specialist De Boer has begun the huge logistical challenge of creating a temporary exhibition venue for the 2012 Farnborough International Airshow. The contract, which will see around 80,000 square metres of accommodation put in place ahead of this summer’s aerospace spectacular, is the company’s largest single assignment. Over the coming weeks around 3,000 tonnes [...]
Olympia Celebrates 125th Anniversary With World-Renowned Artists
EC&O Venues has unveiled the first in a series of commemorative artworks to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Olympia. The first of these is by Rob Ryan, who is famed for his intricate cut outs and screen prints. His work highlights the ornate barrel roof and references the first event to take place at Olympia; [...]
Oasis Graphic set to make an impact at the 2012 Mobile World Congress
Oasis Graphic Co is taking its biggest ever team to Barcelona to provide graphics for a record number of stands at the 2012 Mobile World Congress. The congress, which is at the Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc, Barcelona between 27 February and 1 March, is expected to attract more than 60,000 attendees this year. Oasis and [...]
Aztec goes to the movies at the London Film Museum
Aztec Event Services has spent a day at the movies, providing AV equipment and crew for the London Film Museum’s latest networking event. The museum’s event was designed to promote the iconic location, set on the first floor of London’s County Hall, as a unique meeting and event venue. The museum is set on the [...]
Use of meetings technology to ‘rocket’ in 2012
Virtual meetings to replace a fifth of ‘ritual’ get-togethers over the next two years – Zibrant The use of technology to facilitate virtual meetings will ‘rocket’ in 2012, replacing over the next two years up to 20% of ‘ritual’ face to face get-togethers as companies continue to pursue meetings and travel cost cutting strategies, predicts [...]
BOA Backs Glasgow 2018 Youth Olympic Games Bid
The British Olympic Association (BOA) announced today that it is proceeding with a bid for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) and that the city of Glasgow in Scotland will be its Candidate City. The BOA will now formally submit its intention to bid to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by 1 March 2012. The [...]
EventPilot, Transforming the Event Experience
Having just launched in the UK after phenomenal success in the US, EventPilot brings event planner communication with conference attendees to a new level. EventPilot is a customisable mobile conference app for event and meeting planners available as a native app for the iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry as well as a mobile web version [...]
Free Ebook: Reinvent Your Event Marketing for Higher ROI
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HSL Acquires Massive New Warehouse Facility
UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL has acquired a new 240,000 square foot warehouse and office premises very close to their current HQ in Blackburn, Lancashire. This will quadruple the current space and is currently being prepared to be fully operational by summer 2012. HSL’s business has expanded exponentially over the last 4 years [...]
TPi Awards Use Sunbaba for Event Branding
The TPi awards, one of the most prestigious nights for suppliers within the events industry, used Sunbaba event branding services for this year’s ceremony. The 2012 awards took place at the Novotel West London and celebrated the continuing achievements of technical suppliers within the sector. As part of their brief Sunbaba supplied 28 items including [...]
The London Pavilion Bloomsbury opens for summer
Launched just in time for the summer season, The London Pavilion Bloomsbury is a brand new venue available for events in June and July. Following the success of the award winning Bloomsbury Big Top, for the first time in its history, the Corams’ Fields and Harmsworth Memorial Trust has granted Awesome Events permission to build [...]
Vespasian Security wins the contract to supply Event Security and Crowd Management services to Y Not Festival 2012
The Vespasian Security team is celebrating after being awarded the contract to be the sole provider of crowd management and security services to Y Not Festival 2012. Y Not Festival is a 10,000 capacity music festival held in Matlock, in the Derbyshire Peak District each August. Y Not Festival 2012 will see Vespasian Security deploy [...]
Group Dynamics launch powerful solution to managing audience communication in real time
The Message Gateway from Group Dynamics is a solution designed to manage messages effectively from multiple sources and to allow moderators and facilitators to channel them seamlessly to one or many displays. In today’s meetings it is imperative to consult and engage with audiences. However, the quantity of information generated can sometimes be difficult to [...]
Pinnacle Supports Cancer Trust
Nationwide crewing company Pinnacle Crew has enabled a young cancer sufferer to enjoy a Caring Cancer Trust Snowkids Holiday. The company raised sufficient money through crew donations, topped up by management, so that Olivia, 13, can be introduced to skiing and snowboarding in the French Alps following her lengthy treatment for leukaemia. Caring Cancer Trust’s [...]
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