Europe
Consultation on UK
EventCity relocation
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Star Events acquired by David Walley
Star deal UK-based event industry entrepreneur industry for 40 years and has designed
spices up David Walley has acquired Star Events, and delivered stages, structures, seating
public consultation will be UK event a supplier of stages, support structures, and rigging for some of the world’s most
launched on the proposed services rigging and design services. high-profile events including Download
re-development of the sector
current EventCity site in
Trafford, Manchester, UK.
The plan is to move to a new purpose-
Walley has helped transform
Festival, Spice Girls, Royal Windsor
exhibition industry businesses, including Horse Show and the visit of Pope
Arena Group and 360 Creative Events Benedict XVI.
Services. He was MD of De Boer, and
Commenting on the acquisition,
built EventCity on the present site of most recently led the Freeman company Walley said: “Star is one of the great
Soccerdome, based in Trafford City. in the UK. names of the UK events industry. We are
Subject to planning approval,
Star Events joins Walley’s growing
looking forward to integrating them into
EventCity will leave its current location portfolio of events businesses, following the business and adding value to all of
and temporarily cease operations in July the acquisitions over the last 12 months our clients.”
2020, before re-opening its doors again in of Mobile Promotions, BluePeg and September 2020. Beautiful Minds.
It is planned that the current site,
which is the second largest UK exhibition
Star Events’ Roger Barrett, said: “The
whole Star team is excited about this
Star Events has been supplying move, which will significantly increase
equipment and services to the events the services we can offer to our clients.”
space outside of London, with 28,000sqm
of combined space, will become home to
a wellbeing resort, Therme Manchester.
Designs for the new EventCity will be
revealed in the coming months.
EventCity is owned and managed by
the Peel Group, a real estate investment
company.
“EventCity will
leave its current
location and
temporarily cease
operations in
July 2020.”
Visitors from outside Europe increasingly
powering Germany’s tradefairs
round 30% of visitors to exceeded 10% for the first time, while for
national and international the Near and Middle East the figure was
tradefairs in Germany came 2.9%, for North America 3.1% and for
from abroad in 2018, with Latin America 2.6%.
visitor numbers from countries outside
Europe accounting for 640,000.
AUMA, the association of the German
with 240,000 interested parties.
tradefair industry, says foreign visitor The most important individual
numbers at tradefairs in the country countries from each of the overseas
grew by more than 3%. regions, for the German market, were:
A big market for visitors is Asia,
East Asia: China (110,000), Near/Middle
with nearly 400,000 interested parties East: Israel (30,000), North America: USA
travelling to Germany, as well as 160,000 (70,000), Latin America: Brazil (21,000)
people from North and South America. and Africa: Egypt and South Africa
The share from South-East-Central Asia
w w w.exhibitionworld.co.uk
The most significant country in Europe
in terms of visitors was the Netherlands,
(around 13,000 each).
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