UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies audio division has won the 2010 / 2011 Best UK Dealer Award from loudspeaker manufacturer Nexo, in recognition of their outstanding sales performance and support over the last 12 months.

The Award for A.C. Audio was presented at Nexo's annual distributor dinner/awards evening, staged this year at the Marriot Hotel during the recent Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt. Attended by around 150 people, the Awards honoured the best achieving dealers and distributors in key categories and sectors.

It is the first year that there has been an Award recognising UK sales. The new category was created after a restructuring of the entire Nexo distribution setup in the UK 18 months ago, and follows the conclusion of the first full financial year of tra

Indonesia - The Grand Ballroom at the newly renovated five-star Hotel Indonesia Kempinski in Jakarta recently played host to a spectacular gala concert entitled An American Rhapsody. The 40-piece Jakarta Concert Orchestra and Batavia Madrigal Singers led by Indonesia's most accomplished conductor of western classical music, Avip Priatna, treated the audience to an evening of Gershwin, Frank Sinatra and other American legends

Indonesian rental company Megaswara handled the sound requirements for the evening which included an Innovason Eclipse digital mixing console on monitors,

UK - Showsec has been awarded the contract to provide security for the entire Rockness festival, building on five successful years supplying specific elements of this popular Scottish event.

Rockness, the recently announced winner of the 2011 NME Awards for Best Small Festival, is committed to achieving the highest levels of customer service for the 30,000 festival goers expected across the weekend of the 10-12 June. 2011.

Showsec area manager Scott Anderson says, "We are excited to be working with Rockness for the fifth year and we believe the decision to

UK - XL Events installed two large LED screens in London's Trafalgar Square to facilitate one of the main public viewing areas for live TV transmission of the UK's royal wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton.

XL was working for marketing and event producers Jack Morton Worldwide, who co-ordinated four similar format/concept sites across London for the wedding. An estimated 1m people lined the streets to catch some of the action, which was broadcast worldwide to a global audience of approximately 2bn. It was the most important UK Royal event for 30 years.

The screens

UK - The Arena Group managed the UK media compound and supplied a series of temporary media structures around Buckingham Palace and The Mall for the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.

The Department of Media and Culture planned and implemented a wide ranging transformation of the capital city to host the Royal Wedding, engaging the Arena Group months ahead to manage the temporary media structures for host broadcasters, the BBC and ITV.

Arena Group senior project manager David Moynes worked with 'built asset consultancy' E.C Harris to plan the design and positio

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