{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Sarry1949/news/issues/29","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Sarry1949/news/issues/29/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Sarry1949/news/issues/29/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Sarry1949/news/issues/29/events","html_url":"https://github.com/Sarry1949/news/issues/29","id":77490145,"number":29,"title":"Corporate event organisers extend into new frontiers","user":{"login":"Sarry1949","id":12471432,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12471432?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Sarry1949","html_url":"https://github.com/Sarry1949","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Sarry1949/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Sarry1949/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Sarry1949/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Sarry1949/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Sarry1949/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Sarry1949/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Sarry1949/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Sarry1949/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Sarry1949/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-05-18T04:13:26Z","updated_at":"2015-05-18T04:13:26Z","closed_at":null,"body":"<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This trend is clearly benefiting the larger, more established players in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://ift.tt/1JSipnC\" rel=\"nofollow\">event management</a> space, especially those with overseas offices. Judging by their recent results, Banks Sadler seems to one international operator which is riding the crest of this wave. Despite a rather lacklustre economic environment generally, the London based company recently announced a 16 % increase in revenues alongside a 50 % jump in operating profits.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Top Ten event organiser boasts a number of multinational clients such as Microsoft, Aviva and, for the 12th year running, Santander. What is clear from these results and the accompanying statement is that it is Banks Sadler&rsquo;s international presence which is powering this expansion drive.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agency is already established in Paris and Dusseldorf and no doubt a foothold in other major commercial centres is in prospect.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This kind of strength in depth is essential nowadays when major clients can come up with logistical requests which are often approaching the scale of the Berlin Airlift.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take, for example, the case of pharmaceutical giant, Mundipharma, who planned a 5 day European Sales Conference in Tenerife early in 2009. They wanted no less than 1,200 delegates to attend from all over Europe and assigned the task of getting them there and back to Banks Sadler.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course, many delegates were able to catch scheduled flights from nearby airports and organising this was relatively straightforward. The real challenge for BS was presented by all the attendees for whom it was well nigh impossible to catch a scheduled flight.&nbsp;</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here the solution lay in identifying the half a dozen or so hubs which this latter group could reach via scheduled services and then organising charter flights to Tenerife and back from these airports.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judging from the client feedback, it looked as though Multipharma were surprised that the operation could be mounted according to the tight schedules they had prescribed. It goes to show that when it comes to events of this magnitude and complexity, size really does matter. It seems highly unlikely that a second tier events organiser could have coped with logistical demands of this order.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Banks Sadler was established in 1982 and is still privately owned and fully independent.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>The founding directors came from the marketing and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://ift.tt/1Jrzveb\" rel=\"nofollow\">event management</a> department of Grand Met Hotels and recognised a gap in the market for a professional, independent event management and venue finding service.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n</div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://ift.tt/1ddbVG5\">Corporate event organisers extend into new frontiers</a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://ift.tt/1sHHUEy\">Discounted Hotel Rooms</a>.</p>\n<br><br>\nvia WordPress http://ift.tt/1ddbVG5"}}