Vivid Experience and NEC to create 10,000sqm party venue

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The NEC and Vivid Experience have teamed up to create one of the UK’s largest Christmas party venues for 2013. The party will utilise all of the NEC’s Hall 12 with around 10,000 square metres of flexible event space, expanding or decreasing in size to accommodate exclusive clients of between 500 and 3,500 guests, as [...]

Logistik to deliver Football for Friendship event

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Logistik Group will deliver the launch event and PR activity for Franz Beckenbauer’s Football for Friendship scheme this weekend – the former World Cup winner will host the event in Westminster on May 25, the morning of the UEFA Champions League final. Logistik has been briefed to create a “visual experience” to captivate the imagination [...]

Air Tattoo reveals further new plans for 2013

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The Royal International Air Tattoo has announced further measures for the 2013 event – it has created a volunteer team called the Air Tattoo crew, drawing inspiration from the London 2012 games makers. The volunteer team will be on hand to assist visitors to RAF Fairford on July 20 and 21. RIAT will also benefit [...]

Aesthetics to staff UEFA Champions League final

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Aesthetics has landed the contract to supply around 250 staff to the UEFA Champions League final to ensure corporate guests and sponsors enjoy the sporting event. The Coventry-based company will supply managers, team leaders, registration staff, reception staff and restaurant host and hostesses as well as staff to meet guests at the airport, check them [...]

British Council: Event services

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Budget: N/A Deadline: 12pm on July 12 Email: brian.dmello@britishcouncil.org Info: The British Council has issued an event services tender – it is inviting companies to pitch for its Going Global 2014 event in the USA and is looking for event services. Going Global 2014 will take place at Miami Beach Convention Centre from April 29 [...]

Sodexo Prestige and HMS Belfast to launch The Upper Deck bar

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A destination bar with views of HMS Belfast and surrounding London landmarks including Tower Bridge, the Tower of London and City Hall is to be opened on June 17 by Sodexo Prestige. The Upper Deck bar is to be located on top of the new Café Bar, which opened in April of this year. The [...]

ESPO: Event/festival supplier and equipment framework

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Budget: £2m – £10m Deadline: 5pm on July 1 Contact: tenders@espo.org Info: The Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO) has issued a major event tender – it is looking to create an events and festival equipment framework so that it has a valuable pool of events services and equipment suppliers to draw upon. The framework would [...]

TfL/GLA: Events framework

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Budget: N/A Deadline: 12pm on June 24 Contact: Click here Info: Transport for London (TfL) has issued an event tender, as it wishes to establish a TfL and Greater London Authority (GLA) events framework. The tender has been divided into six lots: Lot 1 – Community engagement Lot 2 – Employee engagement/communication Lot 3 – [...]

GL events Slick Seating squashes competition to win seating contract

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GL events Slick Seating has won the contract to supply 1,600 seats to the PSA Men’s World Squash Championships in October. The week-long competition, which takes place in Manchester, is the highlight of the international squash calendar and all of the sport’s leading names will be competing for honours on court. Hosted by England Squash [...]

Nick Buckles, G4S CEO, to step down

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Nick Buckles, chief executive officer of G4S, will step down from the company on May 31. He will be succeeded on June 1 by Ashley Almanza, who is currently the group’s chief financial officer. G4S has also revealed that Eddie Aston will join the group on July 8 to take up the new role of [...]