Category: Corporate Events
Keith Prowse becomes ‘One Stop Shop’ with events sourcing expansion
Keith Prowse, the UK’s hospitality leader, has lengthened its reach across all sectors as the result of an ongoing events sourcing expansion. From Murrayfield rugby stadium and the Ryder Cup to Last Night of the Proms, a series of over 40 new business arrangements will make Keith Prowse the ultimate resource for the UK’s rich [...]
Iscoyd Park & Assured Events Form Perfect Partnership
South Manchester based events company has won the contract to be the preferred supplier to the stunning Iscoyd Park. The 18th Century estate known mostly as a breathtaking wedding venue, is now making its first foray into the corporate market and has awarded Assured Events preferred supplier status. Assured will now become the first supplier [...]
‘Event Survival kit’ helps exhibitors to make it through the show
A free ‘survival kit’ including tea and sugar, biscuits and bin bags is proving a huge hit with clients of Mobex, the exhibition and roadshow specialist. The kit has been put together to help exhibitors get through the trials and rigours of events with their nerves intact and save them wasting time on the minor [...]
Collective Minds creates watchmaker Patek Philippe’s Grand Ball
The event creator Collective Minds delivered a stunning Grand Ball for the ultimate watchmaker Patek Philippe and the jewellers Mappin & Webb and Watches of Switzerland. London-based Collective Minds transformed the capital’s Victoria House in Bloomsbury Square for an evening of fabulous food and the finest timepieces in the world. More than 150 VIP guests [...]
New business team building concept launched by Chartridge Conference Company
Chartridge Conference Company has launched ‘Out of the Box’, a new package of business-focussed breakout and team building events which will be available at all five of their Home Counties and Midlands based conference venues. “Team building is one of those terms that is often perceived as a ‘jolly day out’ paid for by the [...]
Marvel Super Heroes 4D launch Party
The 22nd of June saw the events industry launch party for Marvel Super Heroes 4D, the biggest new experience to be launched at the world famous Madame Tussauds since the re-development of the Chamber of Horrors over seven years ago. A film of the party can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/merlinevents. The party wowed over 200 [...]
3D to be used for Mixed Reality Debate Event #DofD
Business leaders from across the globe will take part in a unique mixed-reality debate exploring how distance should not be a barrier to business communication on Tuesday 27 April 2010. Corporation Pop is designing and managing Death of Distance, which will take place between 6pm and 7pm at Vision + Media’s offices in Manchester’s MediaCityUK. [...]
Edinburgh MICE industry worth £74.2m in 2010
EDINBURGH’S tourism industry has received a boost after new figures revealed a hike in the number of conferences and exhibitions secured for the capital in the face of the economic downturn. Some 257 events, worth £74.2million, were secured in the year to the end of March, an increase of 57 compared with the previous 12 [...]
BBC’s governing body under fire for £11,000 event hospitality bill
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 from other [...]
MASQUERADE RELOADED 2010, The Documentary Film:
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 [...]
Worst winter since the 1960s puts a spotlight on event cancellation cover
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 [...]
‘Keep Britain Talking’ campaign to give UK’s Meeting industry a push.
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 [...]
Twitter for events an effective marketing tool by @drmasquerade
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 [...]
Why Live Streaming your Event is a No Brainer
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 [...]
PSCo offer stunning 85” screens to the UK events industry
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, [...]
Top Ten forecasts for the events industry in 2010
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 [...]
Pumphouse to produce Macmillan De’Longhi Art Auction
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, [...]
0141 Design helps put The Black and White Ball in the spotlight
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 [...]
Liverpool unifies to promote area for corporate events
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 [...]
SECC is crowned king of events at awards ceremony
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 [...]
Housing Goes Dancing
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 [...]
Harrogate event organisers ‘will benefit from airport boost’
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 [...]
Changes to location ‘keeps corporate events enlivened’
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), [...]
Pumphouse celebrates 21 years in the business.
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 [...]
D&A MEDIA TO PUT ‘WOW FACTOR’ INTO DUCATI STREETFIGHTER EVENT
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 [...]
Strategic Risk Awards ceremony is a winner for organisers DRP Group
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 [...]
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