Recent Event Industry News
Innovative videowall attracts crowds at Tobacco Docks
For the fourth consecutive year, PSCo Technical Distribution, a trade-only technical distributor of innovative display technology, was proud to support NEC’s annual Showcase event, which took place yesterday, Thursday 16th May, at Tobacco Dock, London. PSCo was the first to showcase NEC’s line of outstanding videowall products at the last three events and continued to [...]
Loquiz keeps the adventure company 360 Degrees ahead of the competition.
Loquiz is a strategic adventure game played on tablet computers where the teams answer questions in order to move forward. The goal of the game is to get to the finish with the least amount of steps and beat the other teams with your intelligence and tactical thinking. Our clients were Estonia’s leading telecommunication company [...]
Skiddle Customers Raise Thousands for CALM
Skiddle is pleased to announced they have raised over £2,000 in support of C.A.L.M. (Campaign Against Living Miserably), the UK’s leading leading charity focused on reducing suicides in young men. Having supported CALM for a number of years, the recent donation of £2,320 adds to the considerable donations, already made by Skiddle customers, for this very worthy cause. [...]
Lucky Mermaid
NFLUK have chosen The Mermaid’s auditorium on 24th May for one of their popular Fan Nights with Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck. Andrew although born in Washington DC is returning to London, the city he partly grew up in. The evening will be hosted by Sky Sports presenter Neil Reynolds and will offer plenty of [...]
Eve Announces New Operations Manager
Eve, a supplier of temporary access systems and related services, is pleased to announce and welcome Andrew Colclough in the newly created position of Operations Manager. Andrew has a background in delivering hands-on process and performance improvements and operational management with experience in the automotive, engineering, manufacturing and logistics industries including LF Logistics, Bombardier and [...]
Victoria Parkinson joins Maynineteen
Maynineteen, Manchester based specialists in shopping centre events and entertainment, is pleased to announce that Victoria Parkinson has joined the team as a full time Account Manager following a period of freelancing with the company. A graduate of Northumbria University with a first class honours degree in Marketing Management, Vicky joins the team after 5 [...]
High Ticket Prices See Festival Discount Searches Double
New site statistics from the UK’s largest discount website has revealed that the number of searches for festival discounts for this year on-site is double that of 2012. With festival ticket prices ever increasing, and Glastonbury tickets having doubled in price in the last ten years, it seems that money- savvy festival goers are looking [...]
Adams Catering Scoops Major Hire Award
Adams Catering walked away with the prize for Company Of The Year Single Outlet at the prestigious Hire Awards of Excellence 2013. The awards ceremony took place at the stunning Savoy Hotel in London on the evening of Saturday 27th April. Independently judged, the Hire Awards of Excellence are designed to recognise excellence throughout the [...]
London racecourses confirm line-up for this summer’s live music events
London’s three Jockey Club Venues, Sandown Park, Epsom Downs and Kempton Park Racecourses, have confirmed their racing and live music line-ups for the summer of 2013. Live music events at all three racecourses, which are part of the Jockey Club Venues portfolio, offer entertainment for avid racegoers and keen music fans, with live horse racing [...]
Innovation in the events world
‘Innovation’ is actually rather dull when compared to the much sexier ‘invention’. In the absence of an Edison or Dyson in your company, however, it will have to suffice as the chief route to growth. Innovation is accessible. Everyone can innovate; it’s just that few actually do. A lack of involvement could be due to [...]
CMA adopts online event platform to deliver Digital Breakfasts to entire membership
Leading professional organisation the CMA announced today that it will be using Wavecast® Pro to enable its membership outside of London to access their high profile Digital Breakfast events. “We have been running our Digital Breakfasts very successfully for some time now,” explains Amanda Burrell, Digital, Events and Marketing manager at the CMA. “With top [...]
Three new partnerships deliver added benefits to ESSA members.
The Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) has announced partnerships with Accor Hotels, Freightlink and Eezibuy, through which members will be able to benefit from time and cost savings. The Accor Hotel Group will be offering members between 5% and 10% discounts on hotel stays in more than 2000 hotels across 90 countries. Freightlink will [...]
A New Purple Guide Is Launched
A new guide to help organisers find their way round the myriad of legislation and guidelines covering events has been published by the Events Industry Forum (EIF). The Purple Guide, which has been written and produced by bringing together people from across the events industry and government, is designed to replace a document originally produced [...]
A New Purple Guide Is Launched
A new guide to help organisers find their way round the myriad of legislation and guidelines covering events has been published by the Events Industry Forum (EIF). The Purple Guide, which has been written and produced by bringing together people from across the events industry and government, is designed to replace a document originally produced [...]
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