Monday, February 15, 2010
The HSE has announced it is to revise its guidance for the events industry to reflect legislative changes and improvements in industry practices.Filed Under: Technology 3 Comments
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Firefly Solar have been awarded ‘Supplier of the Year’ at the 2009 Event Awards, held at the prestigious Park Lane Hilton, London on September 25th.
The Event Awards is regarded as the event industry’s number one award ceremony, showcasing the best exhibitions, experiential campaigns and creative events. The panel of judges, hand-picked for their expertise, [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
The stadium leg of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida world tour called on the expertise of international staging experts Stageco to create a bespoke stage with vision.
The band’s increasing popularity created high demand for the 2009 seventeen date stadium tour across Europe, including shows in Barcelona, Stockholm and Wembley.
They were very keen to create a [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
Pumphouse has been asked to provide audio visual production for the third annual Macmillan De’Longhi Art Auction taking place on 29th September 2009 at the Avenue in St. Jame’s London.
The auction has been a huge success and has raised over £200,000 over the last two years. Last year’s event was hosted by Lisa B, model, [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
The value of 0141 Design’s pro bono work for The Prince’s Trust was brought home at last week’s Scottish Event Awards, when The Black and White Ball won the Best Cause Related Award.
Based in Glasgow, digital agency 0141 Design has provided its services for free to a number of events held in aid of The [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009
A number of agencies have joined forces this month to promote one of the UK’s biggest cities as a great destination for team building corporate events.
The Liverpool Convention Bureau has been created in a partnership between regeneration agency the Mersey Partnership (TMP), ACC Liverpool, the Kings Dock, BT Convention Centre and a number of other [...]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
One of the busiest years on record for business tourism in Sheffield has boosted the city’s economy by more than £12m.
New research carried out by Sheffield International Venues (SIV) shows the economic benefit of events hosted across its portfolio of 14 facilities in the city in the last financial year equates to £12.7m.
The figures are [...]
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Poll Sound today announced the immediate availability of the AudioPlanner application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. AudioPlanner is the only app developed specifically for event and meeting planners. It empowers them to build audio equipment lists and estimates while on location and gives users free access to the industry’s best sound engineers.
“There’s a [...]
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Those involved in the events industry will soon be the star players on their own stage – instead of being involved in planning someone else’s big day.
‘In Any Event’ is being held at the Europa Hotel, Belfast, on October 6 and will be a showcase, demonstrating that NI now has the services, venues and expertise [...]
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Some of Scotland’s most innovative and cutting-edge events organisers were honoured on friday night at an awards ceremony in Glasgow.
The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) scooped the Grand Prix for Event Services in recognition of its work at the forefront of Scotland’s international events industry.
Ben Goedegebuure, director of sales for the Glasgow arena, said: [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
Square Meal will bring a social networking element to its award-winning exhibition by hosting an event industry ‘Tweetup’ (a drinks reception exclusive to Twitter users) at its fifth annual ‘Square Meal’s Venues & Events’ show.
The networking event, hosted by Venues & Events editor Annica Wainwright and her team, will be held as part of the [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
Saville Audio Visual provided the AV facilities for a unique charity event staged by the Chartered Institute of Housing North East at Ramside Hall Hotel in Durham, involving two of the stars from Strictly Come Dancing.
Featuring a spectacular display of ballroom dancing by Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag, ‘Housing Goes Dancing’ was compered by [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
A leading IT consulting company, has today announced that stress-free events are now only a click away thanks to its partnership with on-demand event management provider, EventElephant. Kainos‘s Web delivery team provided the technical and project management skills to oversee and build the EventElephant site which went live in January this year.
Since then the site [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
Eat To The Beat (ETTB) has been awarded an ongoing contract to provide all catering including media, artist, crew and VIP guests at the Orange Rockcorps concerts for film production company CCLabs.
Orange Rockcorps is a new initiative from telecoms giant Orange, encouraging young people to voluntarily give four hours of their time to local community [...]
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
THE Ricoh Arena in Coventry is bringing all the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas to the £113 million venue for an open day this month.
Staff are teaming up with the arena’s audio visual and staging supplier, MCL, to showcase the multi-purpose Ricoh to event organisers.
Three sessions will be staged on Monday, September 28, with [...]
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Conference organisers staging events at the Harrogate International Centre (HIC) will benefit from improved services at Leeds Bradford airport, according to the venue’s director.
Stuart Quin, chief at the HIC, said that Ryanair’s recent announcement that it is to add 14 new routes and 63 additional flights every week at the travel hub will boost the [...]
Monday, September 7, 2009
THE dust has barely settled on this year’s Wizard Festival, but already planning has started to make next year’s music event even bigger and better.
The two-day Wizard Festival attracted a record-breaking more than 5,000 music fans to the New Deer Showground in Aberdeenshire, to rock to top flight bands, such as The Charlatans and The [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Brent Council and the local community are joining forces again for the amazing spectacle of Brent Diwali, the Festival of Lights, on Saturday 10th October 2009, 1-9pm.
Brent Diwali marks the start of the traditional New Year for the Hindu, Sikh and Jain communities. Attracting in excess of 35,000 people, it is one of the largest [...]
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
THE ORGANISER of a one-day dance festival has signalled the event may have to change venue to accommodate large demand.
Vince Macari, founder of Swindon Invincible, said he could sell triple the amount of tickets if a more spacious spot than The Bowl in Old Town could be found for next year.
The second annual show, which [...]
