Important new products and trends for special event professionals including in FX, special effects, floral, lighting, linens, props, tabletop items, technical support and tents
PLAYING THE NAME game has proven smart marketing for Stoney Creek, Ontario-based Regal Tent Productions. “We've had work handed to us because [the client] knew we did high-end, high-profile work,” says sales and marketing manager Gregg Chipman...
Shrinking budgets and shrinking lead time — all event professionals are facing these challenges. The answer? Many are turning to breakthroughs — new technologies and new services — that save time, save money and get the event done right...
Holding an event that requires guests to move from one area to another? Montreal-based Sensix Communications and Events has come up with an amusing alternative to the usual posted signs. Human Arrows are eight-foot-tall, brightly colored costumes...
YOU WANT CHALLENGING? How's this — walking a 40-by-60-foot tent up 150 stairs for a Condé Nast Publications event in Times Square. Not enough? What about handling all the permitting for Liza Minnelli's Manhattan wedding — with Fifth Avenue and...
“AN EMOTIONAL ROLLER coaster” is how Tony Tauer describes the seven months it took to complete his buyout — along with several partner investors — of the event rental division of Greenwich, Conn.-based equipment rental giant United Rentals. Still...
WHAT MAKES A beverage beautiful? The right glass does, and event suppliers are constantly at work coming up with glassware lines that are worthy of a toast...
As the event rental industry grows in size and sophistication, so has our annual look at the top rental players. This year, we've expanded ... This article is available for sale online; click on To order our research on the navigation bar, at left.
EVERYONE KNOWS THE benefits of online registration, but the costs can be a killer. Depending on the application, your overall volume, and the terms of your credit-card processing agreement, pricing tends to average between $8 and $15 per attendee ...
Putting together our annual look at the world of event rental is one of our bigger challenges. We make scores of phone calls and chart elaborate spreadsheets to try to divine the trends...
For an art installation by renowned light artist Hiro Yamagata at the Columbus Ohio Science Institute, Westlake Village, Calif.-based Holo-Walls created a dramatic indoor display using its Holo-Sheen film to cover walls, floors and ceiling in a 3...
