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The Local Government Pensions Committee conference
Carlton has been appointed as the event contractor for The Local Government Pensions Committee conference held in Cardiff.
This prestigious 2 day event introduces a new look to the LGPC in England and Wales, and the organisers wanted a dynamic and professional production company with a flexible approach to event management. We are very please to be working on the first of many projects with the LGPC.
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has awarded Carlton the contract to produce their Clinical Negligence Conference taking place at the Devere Carden Park.
We look forward to working with APIL on this interesting event project and creating a suitably impressive and professional environment for the presenters and sponsors alike.
RoSPA - Health and Safety Event
Once again the NEC Birmingham was taken over by RoSPA for the Health and Safety event of the year. Carlton Promotions were contracted (for the fifth year in a row) to provide creative and technical support for the 2008 Occupational Health and Safety Awards, held at The Hilton Metropole. This prestigious event involved three full days of awards presentations in the Kings Suite, followed by three evening gala dinners each for over 1000 guests each night in the Monarch Suite. After dinner entertainment was provided by top comic Ed Byrne together with a live band.
Carlton provided a full production support service including set/stage design and build, lighting, sound, projection, multimedia, printed graphics and hotel signage.
Live cameras were used to relay the awards presentations onto four large projection screens and also into an overspill area.
RoSPA's Head of Events commented...."Carlton have again delivered a highly polished event of which we can all be justifiably proud. Feedback from all quarters has been overwhelmingly positive. We look forward to working with the team again".
International Seminar Success
The Carlton Team have been keeping busy this summer with events in the UK and also Europe.
This International Weekend Seminar for an American owned multinational took place in Switzerland during a weekend of glorious sunshine.
We provided lighting, sound, projection, set and stage as well as technical crew for a very successful event. Carlton worked very closely with the venue to integrate in-house equipment into the technical set-up.
Peugeot Car Launch, NEC
When Peugeot Motor Company wanted to launch two new models to their dealership network, they chose Carlton's Event Team to handle the event.
The stunning 4007 4x4 and the stylish 207SW were the new models to be displayed at the Hilton Metropole, Birmingham. Carlton provided full stageset, AV, technical and creative services to create a stunning ambience for the prestigious dealer event.
On the 6th day of Christmas
Just as we were all looking forward to a nice quiet week before the Christmas holiday....Peugeot popped up with an urgent video production requirement to produce a promotional film of five new models....to be completed before the New Year!
"Of course we are very grateful to Peugeot for coming to us to produce the project...although a little more notice would have been lovely"...explained Carlton Director, Andrea Sinclair-Hall. "The programme was filmed partly on location at Peugeot's UK headquarters and the exciting moving sequences were recorded at the Pro-Drive test track in Warwickshire, where Peugeot's Product Managers and also qualified race drivers were filmed putting the new Sport and GTi models through their paces".
With a film crew of five, Carlton recorded the footage to digital D9 format before editing via Final Cut Pro using their Apple Mac digital studio.
UK Mail Conference and UK Mail Awards
The Novotel Hotel at Hammersmith, West London, was the venue for the UK Mail Conference & Awards on a cold and wet evening in November. But the weather wasn't enough to dampen the spirits of over 300 guests from the Post and Mail sector, who had gathered to acknowledge and reward the significant achievements of the cream of the UK delivery services.
A steel trussing structure and glittering starcloth provided the backdrop for the prestigious event, which was produced by the Carlton event team. State of the art LED lighting combined with intelligent moving lanterns helped to create an atmosphere of excitement and anticipation. Carlton supplied lighting, sound, projection, graphics, video, live cameras and crew to enable a very slick and polished event.
Who's the Daddy Now?
When American pizza giant 'Papa Johns' decided to hold a UK Franchisee Conference and National Awards event in Windsor, they turned to Carlton Promotions for creative and technical support to stage the event. Papa Johns, with 3000 stores worldwide and consistently the USA's leading Pizza delivery outlet, challenged the Carlton team to create an event that was smart and functional for the conference and then dramatic and stylish for the evening awards dinner.
Carlton's MD, Kurt Sinclair-Hall, relished the challenge and said: "This was the first project we had worked on with Papa Johns and their expectations were very high as they are used to very high standards with their previous USA events. The event was demanding and also a great deal of fun. We devised a stunning stage set with interesting atmospheric lighting effects, together with sound, twin screen projection, graphics and live cameras... and then brought a touch of glamour to the awards dinner. We were delighted to have been chosen as the event supplier for this prestigious project."
What's Behind a Successful Leader?
Carlton Promotions has been chosen to provide creative and technical support to the Leadership Trust's ninth Leadership Conference. Carlton will provide full production services including set design and build, lighting and effects, sound, projection and multimedia production for the three day event.
On Track for Training
The Carlton Events team are pleased to have been awarded the contract to provide technical and creative event support services to international training providers Network 21 for a series of high profile international events in the UK and into Europe. Kurt and his team are proud of being awarded this very challenging contract and are looking forward to producing a succession of live presentations for between 400 and 600 delegates.
50th Anniversary Spectacular
Health and Safety specialists RoSPA recently staged a Golden Anniversary Extravaganza to not only to reward and celebrate the safety achievements of UK based organisations, but also to celebrate 50 years of giving out these highly respected industry awards. Carlton were chosen to provide a full production service for two consecutive awards dinners hosted by top comedian Ronnie Corbett, to a combined audience of 2,400 diners.Lighting, sound, projection, stacks of intelligent light effects and some creative set design really made the celebration one to remember. In addition, Carlton staged two consecutive daytime awards ceremonies, provided backdrops for off-stage photography, hotel signage and banners, animated information centres dotted about the hotel, and a full multimedia production service to boot!
Andrea, Director at Carlton Promotions commented..."As you can imagine, the very nature of this event meant that we all had to be even more vigilant than normal with regard to health and safety while we were working. We all became a bit obsessed with it to be honest, but that's not a bad thing. All the events went off really well, and we have received many compliments from guests and also RoSPA themselves for a wonderful event".
I've Come to Read the Meter
This wonderfully humorous comedy/drama has been performed as a home safety presentation aimed at the over 60's for a few years. Dudley Borough Council challenged Carlton to produce a DVD/televised version of the stage play to reach a much larger audience.
Fizzog Theatre Company provided the actors and Carlton recorded the production at the Bonded Warehouse in Stourbridge, using four cameras recording onto digital broadcast D9 video. The programme was edited on Carlton's Apple-based Final CutPro edit suite, which allows multi-layer video editing (perfect for multi-camera projects) and copies provided on DVCAM, DVD and VHS.
UK Mail Show Contract Award
The Carlton events team has just returned from Olympia, having provided technical presentation equipment and services for the UK Mail Show. This prestigious contract was awarded to Carlton by Triangle Management Services, who were impressed by the event team's flexibility, approachability and technical expertise.
The event brings together the postal industry's major players such as Royal Mail, Deutsche Poste, Postwatch, TPG Post, etc, to discuss the key issues affecting the UK mail industry. Carlton provided stage sets, lighting, sound, projection, computer presentation equipment and crew for the main auditorium and also the secondary presentation suite.
Retail Interiors Awards
Carlton Promotions has produced and stage-managed the Retail Interiors Awards event on behalf of Emap/Impact Events. This prestigious event, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, acknowledges and rewards the very best innovations in interior design in the UK's most stylish retail outlets.
Carlton custom-designed the set and staging (including an 8 feet replica of an award), together with supply of all lighting (including 24 Mac Intelligent lights), sound, projection, starcloth, graphics, video opener, entertainment, and also recorded the entire event on video.
Institutionalised!
The Institute of Public Relations' Annual Excellence Awards ceremony was recently staged at the Hilton Park Lane Hotel, London. This prestigious awards dinner was produced by Carlton Promotions, who were responsible for the stage-set, sound, lighting, projection, live cameras, amongst many other technical and creative services.
The evening recognised and rewarded this year's very best movers and shakers in the PR world. The evening was rounded off with a live band, disco and Alka-Seltzer!