In this issue: Conference Craft 25th Anniversary 25 years ago at the world famous Pinewood Studios, Conference Craft was formed. The Lord Stafford Awards Conference Craft's ongoing support to the annual Lord Stafford Awards for Innovation 2008 Exhibitions Our team busy preparing for the 2008 shows. To the Rescue Supporting BAA with recent flight delays. Readers Response Win 6 bottles of Champagne by telling us your thoughts. |
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Readers Response
We hope you like our first edition of the Conference Craft newsletter and we would be very interested to hear your feedback. As part of our 25th anniversary celebrations all feedback received will be entered into a prize draw for 6 bottles of champagne. Please send your feedback to nickjerram@conferencecraft.com by 30th April 2008. The winning entry drawn will be contacted directly and the winner published in our next newsletter |
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Client Testimonials "Conference Craft have supplied audio visual equipment for Judge Events since 1999. The combination of technical expertise and reliability to deliver a high quality product and a professional and extremely personable events team results in an excellent service every time." ''We've worked with Conference Craft for many years now. They have never let us down, they're a great team to work with and in partnership we've created excellent events' The Contract Pharmaceutical industry is a highly competitive environment in which to work. I rely on the Conference Craft team to give Innovex the edge in terms of AV support for our training and development events. Whatever the size of our event they provide reliable equipment together with flexible, dedicated and knowledgeable support technicians. They are proactive in fulfilling our needs and are a pleasure to work with." "Just a quick message to thank you and all your team at Conference Craft for an outstanding night. I think that we surpassed ourselves again and I have had so many emails from people complimenting us on the production... So as usual, a brilliant service from a great team and I am delighted to be working with you." |
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About Us Conference Craft is one of the UK's leading Event Staging, Audio Visual Rental and Technical Staging Specialists. Events and Conferences Rental and Exhibitions |
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Welcome to our Newsletter 25 years ago at the world famous Pinewood Studios, Conference Craft was formed out of a buyout from Zoom Television, which was owned by the Rank Organisation.
The company was founded as Video Equipment Hire Ltd which was exactly what it did!
Role play equipment for presentation skills training and display equipment for corporate video were the mainstay of the business. U-matic tape(3/4”) was the industrial format. VHS was in its infancy. Data projection didn’t exist. The first requests for displaying data on external monitors were just arriving.
Video Equipment Hire did a huge amount of work for British Airways during the 1980’s providing role play equipment for training and the provision of a large quantity of display equipment to remote parts of Heathrow. British Airways were one of the pioneers of corporate video for employee communications during its flotation and even allowed us the honour of having one of our sign written vans pictured next to Concorde for our first corporate brochure.
But the market moved quickly as technology improved dramatically and the introduction of video plus data projection meant that our business needed to expand its services. Consequently we made the dramatic decision (slightly frightening at the time) to change our name to ‘Conference Craft Ltd’ which we felt reflected our services in a broader sense.
And that is where we are to this day. Two branches - one at Heathrow and one in the Midlands. Events now make up 50% of our turnover which is now approaching £1.5 m with the traditional business of rental to hotels, exhibitions and corporate end users making up the other 50%.
We hope you find our newsletter of interest and wish you all a successful year in 2008.
Kind Regards
Nick Deacon Managing Director PS Don't forget to enter our prize draw |
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The Lord Stafford Awards
Project: The Lord Stafford Awards. Venue: Hall 5 – NEC Attendees: 1000+ Over the past two years Conference Craft have been providing support to the annual Lord Stafford Awards. This year’s event combined a one day exhibition and four syndicate rooms with an extravagant awards ceremony later that evening. The exhibition consisted of over 100 stands from local business, regional universities & colleges. Conference Craft were able to supply most of the exhibitors with plasma screens, DVD players & laptops. Projectors, screens and P/A systems were also installed in the additional syndicate rooms and managed by a team of technicians throughout the day. The bulk of the project centred on the evening presentation and the 600 attendees. The awards were scheduled to take place between each dinner course with Kay Alexander introducing each category. The evening would then culminate with the winners being presented with their award live on stage by Lord Stafford. The evening would then be rounded off with an after dinner speech by Richard Noble and footage from the JCB Diesel Max world record team. In order to create a set worthy of the awards, Conference Craft created a 50 metre x 20 metre star cloth backdrop. The stage was then erected in front of this with various height slender panels placed behind and lit with LED battens & cans. The screens were flown from three individual truss sections, the centre 16 x 9 showing live video whilst the two outer 14 x 8’s relayed show graphics. Content was projected using a Barco FLM-HD18 for the centre screen and two Barco CLM-R10’s for the outer screens. In total over 90 metres of truss in 8 individual sections was used to fly the required P/A and intelligent lighting for the event. Needless to say the show ran seamlessly and was greatly enjoyed by all in attendance, as this comment from Keele University concludes………. "Conference Craft has a firm commitment to quality with a professional and personal approach. We were impressed with their work in all areas, nothing was too much trouble." Beckie Lewis - Lord Stafford Awards Manager
To find out more about other Events we have produced, visit our website at www.conferencecraft.com |
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2008 Exhibitions
Over the past 15 years our exhibition department has been supplying services to the MipTv, Mipcom and the Film Festival within the Palais de Festival and hotels and venues around the town of Cannes in the South of France This year is no different with our team busy preparing for the 2008 shows. Price lists have to be produced and emailed out to clients, bookings taken and processed, equipment allocated and checked prior to leaving the UK and then loaded onto a truck three days before the rig to meet the install crew in France where the real work begins. A four man team led by our Exhibition project manager Andrew Rollisson head off to Cannes in April, May and October to look after a range of clients from around the globe (over 50% are from USA). After the build is complete Andrew and one of his team remain out in Cannes for the duration of the events to provide onsite support as well as providing additional equipment for the many parties and evening events that take place around the town. Over the years technology has changed from tape based players and TV style monitors to the modern day flat screen technology and disc based format players. We continue to invest in large stocks of High Definition Plasma and LCD screens of various sizes along with extensive stocks of DVD and other format players. Over the past couple of years has seen a steady migration over to HD with TV and film producers requiring the latest formats to showcase their productions. Not only do we get to see the stars at the World famous Cannes film festival but we supply equipment to some of the big names in the film production industry with Audio Visual equipment being installed at some of the most luxurious apartments around Cannes. Over the past year our exhibitions team have provided services to clients at Exhibition venues throughout the UK and mainland Europe, such as Olympia, Earls Court, The NEC, Messe Frankfurt and Palais de Festival. We have been involved with many shows such as the Southampton Boat Show, Lord Stafford Festival of Innovations, Frankfurt Book Fair, Crufts Online, MipTV, Mipcom, and Mippim to name but a few. For more information on our Exhibition Rental service contact our Exhibitions team on 01753 689999 or email sales@conferencecraft.com |
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