Friday, November 27, 2009
Edinburgh Napier University Business School’s Institute for Festival and Event Management (IFEM) will be welcoming back to the capital the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s renowned Director to present the university’s highly successful Executive Certificate in Event Management. For those in the know Paul Gudgin is the events industry having worked with The Edinburgh Fringe – the world’s [...]
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Specialist event catering company, Chilli Pepper created the menu and complete catering requirements when England took on the All Blacks this weekend. Being chosen to feed the hungry rugby fans, Chilli Pepper created three separate dining areas for the guests at rugby’s legendary venue Twickenham. Chilli Pepper delivered tailored menus for the 750 hospitality guests [...]
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Friday, November 27, 2009
PSCo has added the brand new 85” Panasonic plasma screen to its rental fleet ready for the new season of events in 2010. The 85” fits the gap perfectly between the 65” and 103” screens, ideal for events, exhibitions and conferences. Benefiting from Panasonic’s plasma technology and coupled with PSCo’s vast range of input boards, [...]
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
EDINBURGH’s famous Fringe Festival faces competition from a budget version to be staged in London. Promoter Greg Tallent hopes to have more than 100 venues on offer for his fledgling London Festival Fringe next August after staging a pilot this summer. He plans to persuade dozens of London venues to stage new productions and ask [...]
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
A NEW festival for the marketing industry is being launched alongside Edinburgh’s main festival season this summer. The Marketing Society will unveil plans for the new event showcasing Scotland’s marketing talent tonight at its annual St Andrew’s dinner. The society has teamed up with William Burdett-Coutts, manager of the Assembly Rooms, to create the inaugural [...]
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Fraudsters making “highly convincing” fake wristbands are planning to target UK music festivals in 2010, an industry adviser has warned. Thousands of the fakes are likely to be in circulation next summer, according to Reg Walker from Iridium Security, who works with several major festivals. He added there was evidence that criminals staged a “test [...]
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Once a model of independence, sale of Big Chill to Festival Republic may presage further consolidation in market At the UK Festivals awards at the O2 Arena in London tonight, the great and good of the festival world will gather to celebrate the successes of 2009 and to mourn its losses. One story that is [...]
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Macdonald Hotels & Resorts’ conference booker’s scheme, ‘Live Like a Queen’ has generated just over £5.5 million in event enquiries since its launch nine months ago. The popular scheme, which has been recently extended until March 2010, was launched by the hotel group as a means of thanking its customers, whilst providing an added incentive [...]
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
ShowTex Middle East has moved to a new site making it the largest business of its kind in the region. The company is the professional’s choice for expert service and a huge stock of cutting edge stage and decorative fabrics, precision curtain movement and drop systems, the biggest panoramic front and rear projection screens in [...]
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Monday, November 16, 2009
The annual Q Awards is one of the music industry’s most infamous events, renown for its celebrity shenanigans. This year it was held on 26th October at the Grosvenor House in Park Lane with Q Awards – The Gigs, this year held at north London venue the HMV Forum, providing a six-day run up of [...]
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Commonwealth Games organisers have confirmed that the cost of staging the 2014 event in Glasgow has risen by £81 million to £454 million. The Scottish Government, Glasgow City Council and the Games Organising Committee have been forced to plug a funding gap caused by an increase in broadcasting and staffing costs. Initial costs were put [...]
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Friday, November 13, 2009
A course exploring eco-friendly and sustainable event management has been developed by Event Cornwall and University College Falmouth. The equivalent to MA-level pilot module in Sustainable Event Management examines the impacts of live music and events on the environment, ethical processes and carbon footprints of large projects. It also looks beyond the environmental impact by [...]
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
ExCeL London, Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company’s (ADNEC) exhibition centre in the UK capital has been named as London’s Business Venue of the Year for the second year running at the Visit London 2009 awards held on Thursday 5th November. The London venue also won the Best Corporate Event of the Year for its highly [...]
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Spaceworks Furniture Hire and Well Dressed Tables has expanded its team with the appointment of Marketing and Sales Assistant Manager Tanya Harding. Tanya has several years of experience within the international events industry in similar roles; coupled with her background of a BA Degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Public Relations this made [...]
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The government should ban the alcohol industry from sponsoring any sporting event in the interest of preventing harm, international medical experts say today. In an editorial in the journal Addiction, they say the burden of proof over whether such sponsorship causes people to drink more should shift from the public to the alcohol industry. But [...]
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Leading events organiser and former private secretary to the First Minister, Joan Serafini, will be the guest speaker at a lecture this month to the first group of 40 Stevenson College students to study the HNC Events course. An audience of 60 students from the Events and Administration courses will be given an insight into [...]
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
London has seen off tough global competition to host the prestigious 2011 international SportAccord Convention, raising prospects of a multi-million boost for the capital’s economy. The SportAccord Convention will see over 1,500 of the world’s top sporting officials and business people from more than 60 countries come to the capital for the six-day event. The [...]
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Monday, November 2, 2009
American football fever took over the iconic Wembley Stadium when the NFL came to town, bringing with it the NFL Tailgate Party. Visitors enjoyed an all American experience before the big game with Mojo Barriers installing the crowd control solutions across the site. As a warm up for the only NFL game of the series [...]
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Motor racing chief Bernie Ecclestone has been urged to ensure the future of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. But taxpayers’ money will not be used to broker a deal despite the motor racing industry being worth £4billion to the economy. “The British Grand Prix is a very important event, it’s a much loved British [...]
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