Thursday, January 19, 2012
ACC Liverpool, home to BT Convention Centre and Echo Arena, will welcome Sir Richard Branson to the city’s Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) 2012 – the world’s largest global gathering of startup champions. Sir Richard, who is backing Liverpool’s mission to be a world capital for entrepreneurship, was announced as headline speaker at the Congress’ Main [...]
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Monday, November 21, 2011
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has announced ACC Liverpool, home to BT Convention Centre and Echo Arena, as the chosen venue for its 33rd British International Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2013. The international annual congress will host over 1200 trainee, consultant and specialist obstetricians and gynaecologists from over 50 representative [...]
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Monday, October 3, 2011
The Leader of the opposition has praised Liverpool for being a “fantastic backdrop” for the Labour Party conference. The city has enjoyed an estimated £15 million economic boost from the event, which has attracted 11,000 delegates including two thousand national and international press and media to the 5 day event held at ACC Liverpool, home [...]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
ACC Liverpool Chief Executive Bob Prattey officially welcomed the Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband this weekend as the award-winning venue opened its doors to an expected 11,000 delegates for this year’s Labour Party Annual Conference 2011, 25 – 29 September. 2,000 national and international press and media are set to attend this year’s conference, with [...]
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
ACC Liverpool, home to BT Convention Centre and Echo Arena, has announced a company restructure to reflect the changing needs of its business. Driven by the development of a £40m event and exhibition complex due for completion in 2014, the new management structure includes the replacement of the three current General Manager positions with two [...]
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Friday, May 27, 2011
The Mersey Partnership (TMP) Tourism Awards 2011, which took place last night (Thursday 26th May), saw ACC Liverpool achieve the award for Sustainable Tourism and the BT Convention Centre – part of ACC Liverpool – win the award for Excellence in Business Tourism. Organised by the official tourist board for the Liverpool City Region, the [...]
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
At IMEX 2011 the ACC Liverpool team will be sharing more details with buyers in relation to the recently announced expansion plans for the venue, which continues to enhance its reputation as a landmark conference and events venue. The development in Liverpool will include an 8,100m2 exhibition and events complex which is scheduled to open [...]
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) has committed to holding its annual International Surgical Congress at ACC Liverpool, home to BT Convention Centre and Echo Arena, on a 3-year rotating contract until 2020. Following ASGBI’s successful 90th anniversary Congress in 2010 at the venue, the Association has confirmed it will return [...]
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
The sales team at the BT Convention Centre, part of ACC Liverpool, has been further strengthened with the addition of Arwen Bate in the newly created role of Business Development Manager. Bate’s appointment follows the recent announcement of Fiona Brown and Sandra Eyre to the association team. As Business Development Manager, Bate will be responsible [...]
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Liverpool’s landmark Arena and Convention Centre is to benefit from the addition of a new 8,100m² exhibition and events complex open for business in September 2014. Costing £40m, the new venue will consist of 8,100m2 of space which will be sub-dividable into three interlinked pillar-free exhibition halls, each 2,700m² in size. . The development; with [...]
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
ACC Liverpool lent over 80 pairs of hands to the local community yesterday (Wednesday 27th October) as part of its annual team building day. In conjunction with Everton in the Community – the charity arm of Everton Football Club – staff at ACC Liverpool took part in a range of activities across the city including [...]
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
The Mersey Partnership (TMP) Tourism Awards 2010 which took place last night (Thursday 10th June) saw Echo Arena Liverpool – part of ACC Liverpool – scoop the award for Performance Venue of the Year. Organised by the official tourist board for the Liverpool City Region, the awards recognise the very best in quality and excellence [...]
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The city of Liverpool and host venue BT Convention Centre, part of ACC Liverpool, last week hosted the prestigious Association of British Professional Conference Organisers Annual Conference, 21-23 January 2010. Titled ‘Change Matters’, the three-day conference which drew over 50 high-profile conference and event organisers looked at how professional organisers could maximise their events in [...]
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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 [...]
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