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Rural Gathering Announced
Open Space Creative are delighted to be appointed by the Scottish Government to project manage the 2009 Scottish National Rural Gathering conference.
The major rural networking event will bring people together to drive forward a bright future for rural Scotland. The Rural Gathering will take place in Perth on 25th September 2009. The event will be an excellent opportunity for stakeholders from across rural Scotland to get together to share good ideas and practices.
The event will include breakfast with Ministers, a keynote speech from Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs Richard Lochhead, problem solving workshops getting to the heart of rural development issues, international and local case studies and much more. The Gathering will be chaired by Ken Rundle of the Scottish Agricultural College and will be attended by senior figures from Governments, agencies and organisations working across rural Scotland.
Stuart Hulley, director of Open Space Creative, said: "This is an extremely important event for Scotland and forms part of the government's plans to empower rural communities, helping them to shape their own destiny and to remain vibrant and sustainable places. Once more we are excited with the prospect of delivering a prestigious event for the Scottish Government"."
Best in show - Cardiff council wins top award at Royal Welsh Show with a "little help" from Open Space Creative
The Cardiff Stand at the Royal Welsh Show has won the prestigious title of "The Best Commercial Stand" in Show with the design and project management of the trade stand provided by Open Space Creative. The award was presented by the Royal Welsh Show president Kate Thomas.
Over 1000 trading stands feature in Europe's biggest agricultural show, and during the four day event it's estimated over 280,000 visited the showground.
The stand; designed by Open Space Creative; features the Cardiff: Capital for shopping garden. The garden floral centre piece was designed by Cardiff's parks service staff to celebrate the new St David's development which opens in the autumn of 2009.
The garden features a large shopping bag overflowing with plants plus four raised beds acting as shop windows representing different aspects of shopping in the city. The capital's traditional arcades are also present in the garden and are represented by a delicatessen and a jewellery display.
The award is the second for the garden, which also won a silver gilt award at this year's Chelsea Flower Show.
It wasn't just the garden that proved popular with visitors to the stand, many people came to find out more about the new St David's development (opening October 22), John Lewis Cardiff (opening September 24) and the new Hayes Apartments development.Sport.Cardiff and the Cardiff Blues also proved to be a big hit with visitors.
Executive Member for Sport, Leisure and Culture, Cllr Nigel Howells, said: "To win an award at one of Wales' most prestigious events is fantastic. The show offers a great opportunity to promote Cardiff and to talk to people from across Wales and beyond. I would like to thank everyone involved with the Cardiff Stand for all their hard work."
Steven Madeley, centre director of St David's, said: "The Royal Welsh Show is a major event on the Welsh calendar and was an inspiring setting for visitors to find out more about the exciting development of St David's. It was great for us to get out there and meet the public face to face and for us to also win this award is excellent news."
Stuart Hulley, director of Open Space Creative, said: "We are delighted with the award winning results - the pavilion design which incorporated a 100 square metre double decker structure and interior content certainly enhanced the profile of Cardiff and proved a "must see" attraction to all visitors attending the Royal Welsh Show in 2009.
Success with our project management services to Reed Exhibitions
The world's leading organiser of trade and consumer events Reed Exhibitions excels in creating high profile, highly targeted business and consumer exhibitions and events to establish and maintain business relations, and generate new business.
Reed Exhibitions have appointed Open Space Creative to provide design and project management services on several high profile trade and consumer exhibitions within their SmartSpace division.
Tracey Metcalfe, manager of Reed Smartspace Division, said: "I have worked with Open Space Creative for a number of years within the field of exhibitions. As an exhibition organiser, customer focus is a key element when appointing external resources.On each occasion I have worked with Open Space Creative, they have successfully managed numerous projects in challenging environments whilst establishing and maintaining a great level of customer focus. They are extremely knowledgeable and talented in the areas of design and project management, and have extensive knowledge of practical approaches which are invaluable. Open Space Creative are natural problem solvers, calm under pressure, talented in people skills and an all round team players."
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Launch of "SpaceFour" trade organisers feature service
Open Space Creative Ltd, in conjunction with Evention Design & Build Ltd are preparing to launch the much anticipated "SpaceFour" package designed for organisers of trade and consumer shows within the United Kingdom - predominently at the NEC and London venues including Earls Court, Olympia and Excel.
Gareth Hall of Evention Design & Build said:
"In this current economic climate we examined the pressures that show organisers are feeling at the moment - our solution was not to down-grade but to offer an extremely cost effective "show package" that allows any organiser to enhance their show and streamline the costs for their exhibitors; these day's it's a certain must!."
Stuart Hulley of Open Space Creative said:
"This has been such an exciting project to work on, not only as a creative project but we have learnt so much from the organisers who have contributed to the project - we must thank all of you who contributed. The results I think are very exciting and we are very grateful to Motomo for their research and evaluation skills in the initial development of this project - it certainly helped to create a clear brief for us all to work to, the project has been almost six months in development and I feel the results will be justified when trade and consumer shows reap the benefits!"
The full SpaceFour catalogue will be available early summer 2009
Open Space Creative celebrates consortia win for Scottish Government Framework
Open Space Creative, as part of a consortia bid has been appointed by the Scottish Government as an official supplier for events and exhibitions services.
Stuart Hulley of OSC said:
’It is a huge honour to be one of a handful of companies to be appointed to the Scottish Government Framework for events and exhibition services, to deliver events on behalf of the Scottish Government and other public sector organisations both in Scotland and around the world.
Our successful involvement in the design and event management of the Scotland Pavilion at the 2007, Interceltique Festival in Lorient, France, and the 2007 and 2008 St Andrew’s Day Celebrations in Edinburgh have obviously helped us to win a place on this highly prestigious framework”
Open Space Creative steps forward into the Great Outdoors:
Open Space Creative has been appointed by 3 separate organisations: Angus Council, Visit East Perthshire and Wales Watersports to design and project manage their stands at Britain’s Leading Outdoors Show – the Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show at the NEC at the end of March.
P Smith of Visit East Perthshire said:
“We are delighted to be working with Open Space Creative once again to ensure that our stand design reflects the world class outdoor activity tourism opportunities that can be found in East Perthshire.
In this day and age it is hard to find a company that is able to provide such a professional and high quality turn-key service which enables us to step off the plane at Birmingham International and only a few minutes later walk onto our stand with everything ready to go!”
Open Space Creative delivers high quality stands for Sears Manufacturing in international events at CeMaT, Hannover and EIMA, Italy and BICES, Beijing.
Cardiff based Open Space Creative have completed a global exhibition marketing campaign for Sears Seating. The European division of Sears Seating required an exhibition design company that could raise the profile of their new product range.
Anthony Glick, Sales and Marketing director for Sears said:
"We have exhibited globally for several years now and see trade exhibitions an important aspect of our marketing campaign. Open Space Creative not only delivered on a complicated brief in a variety of countries but they managed to raise our brand presence at some very important trade shows - more than we ever believed possible."
