Important new products and trends for special event professionals including in FX, special effects, floral, lighting, linens, props, tabletop items, technical support and tents
A better business climate? Yes. Tougher competition? Yes again. When we polled the event rental industry for our annual New Year's forecast, we heard plenty of optimism tempered with a healthy respect for the challenges of the marketplace.
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In this month's “Tech Tips,” event producers weigh in on the software programs they use to present their design ideas to clients — and the programs that keep them organized once they're on the job.
TIP: Harness the potential of three-dimensional...
WHEN an item takes up space but doesn't make a profit, what do you do? This simple question draws a range of responses from party rental pros — from selling it in cyberspace to depositing it in the dumpster.
A good, old-fashioned parking lot sal...
L .A.'s Classic Party Rentals proved again that the big get bigger when it acquired the tent rental operations of Torrance, Calif.-based Aztec Tents & Events in November. Here, longtime Aztec president Chuck Miller looks at the future of consolid...
Inflatable furniture has come a long way from your college dorm days. The Bubble Chair, available from London-based online retailer I Want One of Those, is created from five small and five large connected balls, which form a fanciful bubble-shape...
TO make a special event a success, having the right performers onstage is important. But just as important, professional staging suppliers will tell you, is the staging you build to support those performers. The right staging not only adds drama...
L.A.-based Classic Party Rentals, the biggest event rental company in the U.S., continued its acquisition spree with the announcement last week that it has acquired Ducky-Bob's Party & Tent Rentals, a major player in Texas, and Montebello...
The Liverpool [England] Culture Co.'s Nov. 20 spectacle to turn on the city’s Christmas light display for 15,000 attendees was powered by lively stage acts along with environmentally sensitive, "green" generators from locally based Pyramid...
In our Nov. 23 edition of Eventline, we reported that Los Angeles-based Classic Party Rentals had acquired Aztec Tents & Events of Torrance, Calif. Spokespeople for the companies stress that Classic has acquired only the rental division of...
