News round up issue 39
Vorsprung durch events
London’s newest venue, The Audi quattro rooms opened its doors this week.
Located on the upper two floors of the new seven storey West London Audi centre, near Chiswick the venue is configured to accommodate up to seven clients at any one time incorporating board rooms, meeting rooms and the ‘Audi Lounge’ private screening room, which can accommodate between four and 40 delegates. It is also available for exclusive hire and can entertain up to 300 guests over its two integrated floors.
The venue is headed up by commercial manager, Charlotte Reeves, who is a former director of corporate relations at Somerset House and chair of Unique Venues of London.
“With a superb team in place and the industry’s finest suppliers on board, the Audi quattro rooms is all set to deliver a customer experience that bears the same hallmarks of quality, style and exclusivity for which the Audi brand is justly famous,” says Audi UK director, Jeremy Hicks. “Our aim is to ensure that this remarkable venue continually sets the benchmark in the industry in terms of technology, service and innovation.”
An event design guide to transform your events
88 Events, The Event Design Experts, has published the Autumn/Winter 2009/10 Event Design Guide that, they promise, will help you step away from the mundane and transform your events with some great design.
The guide is billed as being ideal for event organisers who want to re-energise proposals by infusing them with innovative design ideas, caterers who would like to show their clients they are up-to-date with the latest trends in event design and venues that want to create more unique events for guests while offering them greater choice.
The guide is free and can be downloaded at www.theeventdesignexperts.co.uk
Upper Street Events goes it alone
The Business Design Centre Group has de-merged some of its group of companies into separate entities and as part of this process Upper Street Events has become a stand alone Limited company.
Upper Street Events boasts a well known profile of trade and consumer shows including New Designers, London Art Fair, Country Living Magazine Fairs, The Cycle Show and Caffe Culture. The firm saw a 25 per cent growth in profits for 2008/09.
The firm will continue to be headed up by managing director, Paul Byrom, commercial director, Dan Holmes and director, Isobel Dennis.
Four great events sees Telford bucking trend
The International Centre, Telford, part of the Southwater Event Group, has announced that three new events will be held there in 2010.
First up in January is Tattoo Freeze a new tattoo convention showcasing some of the world’s best tattoo artists. Later that month, Farm & More comes into the centre’s exhibition halls. In February, Movers & Storers, the only national exhibition for the removals, storage and self-storage industries in the UK, comes to Telford from the NEC.
The venue has also signed a long term deal with existing client the Summer Outdoor Living Exhibition, SOLEX, that will see the event being staged at the International Centre through to 2012
“We’re absolutely delighted that the three shows have confirmed they’ll be coming to Telford next year and that we’ll be welcoming SOLEX for several years to come,” says Southwater Event Group chief executive, Tom Gray. “It’s great to see event organisers showing their faith in our venue and our facilities, we have an excellent reputation for hosting large-scale conferences and exhibitions for hundreds of delegates, but we can also accommodate business meetings and events on a much smaller scale.”
