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DB to provide AV service for BAE Systems

DB Systems will provide design group Rapiergroup with IT & AV solutions for BAE Systems

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - DB Systems has won an intense pitch to secure a high-profile contract with design group, Rapiergroup to supply IT and AV solutions for BAE Systems.

The contract, which begins in February 2011, at Aero India, will see DB partnering with Rapiergroup to design innovative and bespoke IT and AV solutions for BAE Systems' exhibits around the world throughout 2011.

David Bulley, DB's managing director, commented: "BAE Systems is one of the largest defence companies in the world so I am delighted that Rapiergroup has awarded DB this contract.

"It was a tough tender process but I believe our experience working in the aerospace industry, ability to develop creative solutions, and track record of providing first class IT and AV support on a global basis, were the key facto

L-R: Mark White (ABTT President), Chris Higgs, Alan Cohen, Roger Fox and Thomas Mannings (photo: A T Flower).

ABTT bestows honours

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - The Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) has bestowed its top accolade on Chris Higgs, a PLASA National Rigging Certificate Assessor and manager of the Birmingham NRC assessment centre.

The ABTT Fellowship, given only to individuals who have rendered significant service in the technical aspects of theatre, was announced at the Association's annual Christmas Party, hosted by ETC at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane last Friday.

On behalf of the Association, Thomas Mannings, English National Opera's Head of Technical an

Flemming Sørensen joins TTA as sales and marketing manager

TTA appoints sales & marketing manager

Details: 14 March 2016

Norway - Theatre sound specialist TTA has boosted its sales and marketing team with the appointment of Flemming S°rensen to the company. With an extensive background in professional audio sales, primarily in the distribution of blue-chip branded products to the Scandinavian market, S°rensen takes up the job of sales & marketing manager.

Formerly the director of the professional audio department at Denmark's leading distribution company Kinovox, S°rensen is now responsible for TTA's international export. He will also oversee national sales for Denmark and Norway, a territor

Boulevard is home to 23 Chauvet fixtures

Newcastle's Boulevard installs Chauvet fixtures

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Boulevard is a newly opened club in Newcastle upon Tyne and is home to Betty Legs Diamond, and DJ, Miss Rory. It's also home to 23 Chauvet fixtures specified, fitted and programmed by Nik Cook of Innovation Power from Sunderland.

The club boasts Broadway-style productions combining female impersonation with a chorus of show boys and girls performing everything from slapstick comedy to choreographed dance routines. And every show is performed in a dazzling array of costumes.

Cook learned of the Chauvet products while attending PLASA in September 2010. "He was blown away wit

Stageco beats the drum in Middle East

Details: 14 March 2016

Qatar - Stageco supplied an impressive temporary building, called The Drum, for the production of one of the largest events in Qatar's Oil and Gas Industry, organised by WRG Qatar LLC in Ras Laffan Industrial City.

Qatar Petroleum, Qatargas and RasGas held this prestigious event on 13 December, in honour of the three companies' achievements, when they joined forces to break Middle East records for producing 77 Million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG). To organise this celebration His Excellency Al-Attiyah established a multiple-discipline 77 Mta Task Force, compromising of repres

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