Category: Event Industry News
Grab a Gift from IET Venues at Square Meal 2011
IET Venues, the premier family of venues across the UK, today announces its attendance at the 2011 Square Meal Venues and Events show, as well as the presence of the IET Venues Voucher Vortex where stand visitors can win prizes including spa days, Kindles, meals for two at London restaurants and IET Venues thermal mugs! [...]
HBAA keynote implores Government to help the industry
The HBAA Annual Forum kicked off at the Ramada Manchester Piccadilly Hotel yesterday, Thursday 8th September, drawing together over 300 of the UK’s agents, venues and hotels together. HBAA Chair, Juliet Price, opened proceedings before Ian Gamse, director responsible for the Otus hotel brand database and Professor Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe of Bradford University took to the [...]
Free Ebook: Fascinating Event Marketing Stats
Did you know that event marketing usually consumes less than 20% of a company’s budget? And that only 11% of companies use blogging for event marketing? And that nearly one third of companies send press releases to promote their events? If these facts fascinate you, you will like Hubspots new ebook “Fascinating Event Marketing Stats.” [...]
MILOS at the Makkah Awards for Excellence
The largest MILOS trussing installation in the Middle East to date was built for a special presentation ceremony to give out the 2011 Makkah Awards for Excellence, staged in the Hilton Hall of the Jeddah Hilton Hotel, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia. MILOS trussing and staging products from Bright Star were used to build a spectacular [...]
Mayor Unveils New £25 Million Event Venue
G Live, Guildford’s brand new entertainment venue was visited today by the Mayor of Guildford Cllr Terence Patrick. Local business leaders, senior representatives of Guildford’s arts and cultural organisations and Council personnel gathered as the venue opened its doors to the public for the first time as part of the Heritage Open Days Scheme which [...]
Top science conference boost for University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is fast becoming a popular venue for some of the world’s top science conferences. Just weeks after welcoming hundreds of delegates from all over the world for the Rutherford Centenary Conference on nuclear physics – and days after staging the International Chromosomes Conference, the University is this week playing host to [...]
EMS ships in unique hospitality solution for Parker at Offshore Europe
Roadshow specialist Event Marketing Solutions (EMS) has designed an innovative, high-impact hospitality space for Parker Hannifin at Europe’s major oil and gas offshore event, this week. The Parker Instrumentation tour – managed by EMS since 2007, is at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Offshore Europe 2011(6-8 September) in Aberdeen – the biggest event in [...]
Team Birmingham ready to welcome Liberal Democrats
Birmingham is getting ready to host the Liberal Democrats’ autumn conference when it returns to the city next month. The party will hold its autumn event at The ICC from 17 – 21 September, with the city welcoming an estimated 8,000 delegates and more than 1600 of the UK’s media. The event is set to [...]
Networkers receive master class at Regent’s Park venueduring Eventia’s Summer get-together
Delegateswho attended Eventia’s summer networking party, held at the Royal Collegeof Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) on 1 September were treated to a90-minute master class in how to network more effectively, delivered bybusiness author and trainer, Andy Lopata. Theinteractive ‘how to seminar’ on ‘Networking in the RealWorld’ brought home the idea that networking should be used [...]
Melville’s new look reinforces global service to organisers
Melville Exhibition & Event Services has announced that it is introducing a new corporate identity that will reflect the global reach and depth of capabilities it is able to offer clients as part of Global Experience Specialists (GES). Melville CEO Nick Marshall said, “Melville’s new look communicates that we will retain the local presence appreciated [...]
Leadassociations announce collaboration for education
HBAA and Eventia have announced collaboration in the fieldof education, recognising the individual strengths & benefits provided byeach Association within this area. The collaboration aims to extend and enhance the memberbenefits of both specialist industry bodies: the HBAA are renowned fordelivering an excellent annual ‘Training programme’, while Eventiahas succeeded in providing informative and popular “How [...]
Aggreko Powers Tall Ships Festival
When the Irish city of Waterford played host to the 2011 International Tall Ships Race, the city council turned to Aggreko, the global leader in temporary power and temperature control solutions, to deal with its complex temporary power requirements. The organisers of the international event, which saw approximately half a million maritime and music fans [...]
Scottish Event Awards 2011 To Be Hosted At The Edinburgh Corn Exchange
The cast of Scotland’s events industry will ascend upon Edinburgh this month to pay homage to the multi-million pound industry that annually hosts Edinburgh’s Hogmanay and the Edinburgh Tattoo. On Thursday 15 September, Edinburgh will play host to the leading figures of Scotland’s productive events industry. The industry will gather at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange [...]
Take a leading role at the Scottish Event Awards 2011
The cast of Scotland’s events industry will ascend upon Edinburgh this month to pay homage to the multi-million pound industry that annually hosts Edinburgh’s Hogmanay and the Edinburgh Tattoo. On Thursday 15 September, Edinburgh will play host to the leading figures of Scotland’s productive events industry. The industry will gather at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange [...]
Showsec Success At Creamfields
Showsec revitalised and rejuvenated its operating strategies to maximise the secure environment and customer experience at this year’s Creamfields festival – the first of a five year deal with Cream International Events. The festival and event security specialist won the contract following a competitive tender, and it builds on over a decade of successful working [...]
Reflections on the Waterfront for dbn
Manchester, UK, based lighting rental company dbn supplied large scale spectacular architectural lighting to Culture Liverpool for a special event celebrating both the 100th anniversary of the iconic Liver Building and the opening of the new Museum of Liverpool – the largest newly-built national museum in Britain for more than a century – both located [...]
Liveculture Expo & Awards Cancelled
After weeks of speculation, it is with regret that Mark Cunningham and Jay Green announce the cancellation of liveculture expo2012 and the associated liveculture awards2012, the live production industry events that were scheduled to be held at Wembley Stadium next April. The cancellation is a direct result of a breakdown in the duo’s business relationship [...]
Stageco Goes Above and Beyond At V Festival
Stageco provided the main stage for both legs of the V Festival, at Hylands Park, Chelmsford, and Weston Park, Staffordshire, on 19th – 20th August, 2011. The Belgian company provided its tried and trusted 4-tower festival roof system, offering a performance area of 25m by 20m for headliners including the Arctic Monkeys, Plan B, Kaiser [...]
Pukkelpop festival stage collapse victims fund established
Organisers of Belgium’s Pukkelpop festival have announced the creation of a fund for families of people killed in a violent storm at the event. Staging collapsed and giant screens fell when the storm struck Hasselt, eastern Belgium last month. Four people died and more than 70 were injured, prompting the immediate cancellation of the three-day [...]
The National Museum of Scotland re-openes with new hospitality spaces
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh has re-opened following a spectacular £47million redevelopment. This highly ambitious transformation, which combines spectacular spaces with state-of the-art facilities, enables National Museums Scotland Enterprises Ltd to offer a space for corporate hospitality events which is unique in terms of grandeur and scale, available from 1st September 2011. The [...]
High profile September events get under way with Merthyr Rock
A packed September of high profile events supported by the Welsh Government, which aim to raise Wales’ profile as a premier destination for sporting and cultural events, will kick off on 2-4 September with the inaugural ‘Merthyr Rock’. Merthyr Rock is funded under the Welsh Government’s Major Events Strategy, and marks the culmination of Love [...]
Scarlett Entertainment continues to grow with the appointment of a new Spanish entertainment manager.
In response to the news that Barcelona’s business tourism continues to grow, top global entertainment agency Scarlett Entertainment has expanded its business internationally and is pleased to announce that it now has an ‘on the ground’ corporate entertainment agent based in the Spanish city. The popularity of Barcelona as a corporate event destination is in [...]
HBAA partners with ISMM’s Successful Selling Conference
The HBAA has teamed up with respected association Institute of Sales and Marketing Management (ISMM) to offer reduced rates at ISMM’s Successful Selling Conference at Ricoh Arena on 20th October 2011. ISMM is the noted specialist association responsible for driving best practice in sales and marketing practices across every industry sector. The partnership comes in [...]
UBM Live launches multi platform exhibition app to improve visitor experience at LIW 2011
Visitor’s to Leisure Industry Week 2011 are set to benefit from a truly interactive experience as the UBM Live team launch a free Smartphone app to help get the very best out of the show. Developed in response to overwhelming feedback from 2010 visitors and exhibitors, the impressive LIW Mobile App will help visitors to [...]
Two further appointments for Hotelzon’s expanding management team
Simon Etchells has been appointed as VP, EMEA at Hotelzon. His duties include global sales and business development, operational management, strategic development, marketing and specific projects appointed by the CEO and Board of Directors. He has held senior sales marketing and business development roles with global blue chip companies such as Nokia and Microsoft prior [...]
Etherlive expands sales team with appointment of Steve Birnage
Etherlive, the noted IT specialist for the live event sector is to increase its presence in the market with the appointment of Steve Birnage. Birnage will join the growing sales team at the Chippenham based technology firm as Senior Account Manager from 1st September 2011. Birnage joins market leading Etherlive after over two decades in [...]
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