SOMETIMES CREATING the perfect event is all about getting creative with what you've already got. That lesson was driven home full force for the design team at Vancouver, British Columbia-based Rare Indigo, assigned a mere six days to cook up a...
NAVIGANT MEETING Services, a division of the Denver-based travel services company Navigant International, and Cornerstone Enterprises, a subsidiary of Navigant specializing in corporate events, have been integrated to form Navigant Performance...
THE GUESTS MAY coo at the chandeliers or swoon over the swags. But to many event professionals, the truly admirable accomplishment in a great tented event is how the event team got the tent there in the first place...
JEFF SALMON, former president of Burbank, Calif.-based Dick Clark Communications, has been named vice-president/general manager of PGI ORANGE COUNTY, based in Irvine, Calif. Call 949/789-7474; www.pgi.com. • ROGER SULLIVAN has been named general...
MIXING ENDURING FAVORITES with enticing debuts is what The Special Event is all about. The 2003 show, coming to Orlando, Fla., Jan. 8-11, promises a host of inspiring new additions to its core lineup of essential seminars and events...
Launched earlier this year, the Special Event Sites Marketing Alliance focuses on the marketing needs of non-hotel event venues, according to Ted Anderson, SESMA president-elect and director of special events for the Smithsonian National Museum of...
FROM THE HUNDREDS of outstanding entries received this year for Special Events Magazine's Gala Awards competition, a blue-ribbon panel of judges from our Advisory Board narrowed the field to these nominees. Often the margin between winning a...
Available in eight unique patterns, Holo-Walls transform blank surfaces with holographic backdrops. Constructed of lightweight Gatorboard panels covered with laminated Mylar, Holo-Walls attach to walls or sets with Velcro for easy installation...
IT'S EXCITING TO start your own special event business, but it's also terrifying. Are you going after the right clients with the right service at the right price? To help event professionals succeed, event pro-turned-advisor Sharon Jansen launched...
Cocktail hour's been shaken up by a swank new table and chair set from VillageCraft. Handmade from fine wrought iron painted flat black, the 3-foot-high Martini Corrente table features a martini-glass design complete with a playful rubber olive...
