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
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The BBC’s governing body was under fire tonight for lavishing thousands of pounds on hospitality and expenses.
Despite the painful economic climate, BBC Trust officials spent £11,000 on lunches with MPs and hosting boxes at the Proms over a six-month period.
This came even though a number of them also received Proms hospitality [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Thursday 21st January 2010 lat week saw the Premiere of this year’s hottest and most awaited Event Documentary hitting the London Noir Twitter Streets!
Adrian Silas, Creative Director of Masquerade Events brought the Industry his special and unique fun offering MASQUERADE RELOADED in full Feature Film format for a special Screening for one night only and [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The arctic weather that has gripped the nation over the past couple of weeks has led to a rise in claims for the cancellation of trade fairs and conferences, says specialist event insurer Hiscox.
As many as 1 in 10* people may have missed work last week, as much of Britain was blanketed in thick snow [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
A year round governmental campaign, ‘Keep Britain Talking’, aims to raise the profile of the UK meetings and events industry to encourage business in the UK to keep communicating through such means. As part of this initiative, Rose McDonald from Wyboston Lakes conference and training centres recently spoke at Thames Valley University to help promote [...]
Monday, January 4, 2010
DR M aka Adrian Silas of Masquerade UK joined twitter towards the end of 2009 and he admits he was a little sceptical about it all.
Adrian explains to Event Industry News how it has helped him engage the events industry on a larger scale than he could imagine and the impact its had on him [...]
Saturday, December 12, 2009
The idea of charging a fee for video and audio from conferences and events is old, and comes from the days of charging for tapes of presentations as a way of boosting revenue from live events. Those days are over.
Today, sitting in little old South River, Ontario, Canada I’m watching the live streaming event LeWebfrom [...]
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, the [...]
Friday, October 23, 2009
By Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future
The event industry has been hit hard by the current recession but, while it is not expected to return to strenght soon, all is not lost. The following are my top ten key developments I expect the industry to undergo next year:
1. New Product Explosion – We will see a massive [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Friday, August 14, 2009
By holding a team building corporate event or similar in a different location each month or year, businesses will be able to keep things fresh, it has been asserted.
Gillian Hibberd, the corporate director of people and policy at Buckinghamshire County Council as well as the president of the Public Sector People Manager’s Association (PPMA), believed [...]
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Pumphouse, the Hertfordshire-based employee communications agency, is maintaining momentum through what is a difficult year for the industry. In adding two new clients and a significant level of turnover to what has been a solid year so far, the future looks good for the agency in this, its twenty-first year of business.
One of the new [...]
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Audio-visual company D & A Media will be helping superbike maker Ducati put the wow factor into its Ducati Village hospitality suite at the World Superbike Race at Donington this weekend with a three-metre wide screen.
The growing Essex company is providing the giant display in the Ducati “Launch Pad” which will see the new 1100cc [...]
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
WORCESTERSHIRE presentation and communication company the drpgroup from Hartlebury added to its roster of satisfied customers after staging the Strategic Risk Awards in Berlin.
The event saw 160 risk industry professionals from across Europe gather for the annual event, organised by Strategic Risk magazine, and the evening passed off so successfully that the company has already [...]
