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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Following the tragic festival stage collapses that shocked the world last summer, Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) will host a Structural and Crowd Safety Conference that examines the engineering details of outdoor structures, emergency planning procedures and insight into climate issues and resulting safety implications. Throughout the day there will be a range of panels [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
David Moran and Ulric Kenny of Ion Equity have acquired Ocean Media Group from Anglo Irish Bank. Ocean Media is a broadly based exhibition, publishing and new media organisation with core businesses in the weddings/bridal and social housing sectors within the UK, Holland and Germany. The buyout was financed privately and leaves Ocean Media debt [...]
Monday, January 9, 2012
The National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham will launch new solutions for the conference and live event market this March at Confex 2012. There will also be an opportunity for associations to gain valuable audience insight from the NEC’s award-winning marketer Adi Clark when he hosts a research round table on Association Day. With Conference [...]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Wyboston Lakes, the UK’s largest privately owned single site dedicated conference provider, has announced its endorsement of the current ‘Conference Cloud’ campaign, the initiative to encourage all UK conference venues to offer free WiFi to delegates. The campaign was launched in the summer by ABPCO, the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers. It is designed [...]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The HBAA is to launch its latest study in a series of White Papers for the conference and meetings sector. Titled ‘Meetings plastic: Drastic or fantastic?’ the paper looks at the growing presence and consequences of credit card payments in strategic meetings management. Researched and written by respected business travel journalists Mark Frary and Betty [...]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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 [...]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Worldwide producers and marketers of synthetic and conventional motor oil and lubricants, Castrol, have chosen Venues Event Management to manage their International Key Account Managers Sales conference which will take place in Hamburg on 16th and 17th November 2011. Fifty German and English Castrol employees will be attending the country conference which is being held [...]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Etherlive, technology specialists for the live events sector, has confirmed it will hold the second edition of The Gathering at iconic riverside venue, Somerset House. On Tuesday 8th November industry professionals from corporate event organisers to agents and production companies will debate the sector’s pressing IT issues and scrutinise the latest technology trends including: Is [...]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
ESSA has announced the dates and venues for it 2012 events commencing with the association’s 2012 AGM which will be held in the afternoon of Thursday 29 March at Olympia, culminating in networking drinks to enable fellow members to network. This will be followed by “In the Rough”, the newly expanded Industry Golf Day and [...]
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The conferencing sector in Belfast received another boost when a delegation of twenty influential conference booking agents from the USA visited to see firsthand the City’s expanding conference venue and services portfolio. This was their first time to visit the city. The visit was jointly hosted by Belfast Visitor & Convention Bureau (BVCB), Hilton Belfast [...]
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Belfast was recently judged the winning conference bid to hold next year’s 43rd annual conference of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) in June 2012, according to Belfast Visitor & Convention Bureau. Over 400 representatives from across the legal information sector will gather in the city for the three-day conference and networking [...]
Monday, September 26, 2011
Global recession, natural disasters, pandemics, political instability, travel disruption… With all these challenges, how can organisers make the case for event spend and how do they ensure that the messages reach all the right people? These were amongst the questions posed at the inaugural CONFERENCE Scotland forum, presented by Saville Audio Visual in partnership with [...]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
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 [...]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Nottingham Racecourse has launched a pay-as-you-go conferencing package targeting local businesses. Prices are allocated on an hourly basis and meeting rooms can be booked as late as two hours before arrival. The first hour is priced at £50 +VAT and prices gradually decrease on the hour throughout the day. The package aims to fill a [...]
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Hospitality Guaranteed, a conference and event venue sourcing company, is celebrating 5 successful years in business this month. Helping companies across the UK save money and find the best venues and accommodation, Hospitality Guaranteed was established in 2006 by Victoria Brunton and Amanda Jackson. With over 20 years’ joint experience of working in the hospitality [...]
Friday, June 10, 2011
Advertising Feature Pineapple Parlour, a central London based venues & events agency launched in 2008 has unveiled its new venue finder website. Pineapple Parlour: The Venue Collection. The Venue Collection is a free venue finder website for event organisers, wedding planners and others looking to hire a unique or special venue for their event. Speaking [...]
Thursday, June 9, 2011
The launch edition of Event Logistics Live took place last week and has been proclaimed a fantastic success by delegates, sponsors and organisers, tfconnect. Created for international event logistics specialists, ELL took place over three days in a range of iconic London locations including ExCeL London, the British Music Experience at the O² and HMS [...]
Monday, May 9, 2011
Delighted by the phenomenal success of The Edible Garden Show 2011, exhibitors have been flocking to book their slot for next year’s grow-your-own spectacular. Show organisers report a surge in bookings for the 2012 extravaganza with 55 per cent of exhibitors from the launch event already staking their claim on floor space for the next [...]
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Faversham House Group, organisers of Sign & Digital UK, are delighted to confirm that 6,756 visitors attended the show at the NEC last week. This is an impressive 22% increase on the 2010 show, reflecting the renewed optimism in the market and the event’s role in showcasing the very latest sign making and digital printing [...]
Monday, April 11, 2011
Elevations Exhibitions & Design Ltd is slashing its carbon footprint and putting itself at the forefront of exhibitions sustainability by reusing as many components as possible from its stands and then recycling the wood waste. Elevations designs, builds and manages exhibition stands and experiential marketing campaigns worldwide, and stands from just one exhibition can potentially [...]
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Barnsley based Gala Tent has launched a new design of folding chair that is set to save the hospitality space and money by halving the storage space and transport requirements when compared to traditional banqueting chairs. The new chair folds completely flat making it a much easier task to transport them to and from an [...]
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Elevations Exhibitions & Design has just returned from a ITB Berlin 2011 having produced stands for a record number of exhibitors, including the award winning Jordan Tourism Board stand. At the Berlin exhibition, Elevations produced 19 stands using a labour force of 55 people. This is the most stands that it has completed in a [...]
Friday, March 18, 2011
Meet Birmingham, which promotes the city’s convention bureau, enjoyed a successful International Confex 2011 at Earls Count in London this month, with specific sales leads up 100% in comparison to the 2010 event. Meet Birmingham, which had more commercial partners than ever supporting its Confex attendance in 2011, also experienced a rise of 21% in [...]
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Centaur Exhibitions has launched an exciting new event aimed at helping the humanitarian aid community improve the delivery of aid. Held in Brussels from 19-20 October, 2011 AidEx will comprise of an exhibition, conference, demonstrations and workshops. The event will offer a unique platform for professionals in the humanitarian aid community to consider topics of [...]
Monday, February 28, 2011
Automotive brake specialist Brembo was awarded Best Overseas Stand at Autosport 2011. Designed and built by the custom stand design & build division of Melville Exhibition & Event Services – Melville Teamwork, the 81sqm stand was created to deliver a clean crisp brand image, differentiating the company and its products from other stands by highlighting [...]
Monday, February 21, 2011
UK Experiential Specialists The Circle Agency and associate US agency AGENT X worked together to create a truly global launch for the new Cybercrime Index (CCI) at Westfield London this week. Norton by Symantec’s Cybercrime Index is a free online tool, available to all. It measures and warns people about the increasing risk of cybercrime [...]
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