UK - Venue IT, the permanent infrastructure division of Etherlive, has strengthened its ties to the hotel industry with its appointment by The Cumberland hotel, The Tower and Marble Arch.

The landmark London hotel has chosen Venue IT as its technology provider for meetings & events. The appointment follows discussions looking at the longer term conferencing needs for the award winning hotel.

Following a £95m refurbishment, The Cumberland is now looking to assert itself in the lucrative corporate events market set to be stimulated by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.

Venue IT will provide high-speed Internet connectivity which can be accessed throughout the hotel's 26 meeting & event spaces, including the ultra modern Ocean Room, which has a capacity of up

The Netherlands - Royal Nedalco, a leading producer of ethyl alcohol, is a member company of the Dutch agro-industrial group Royal Cosun.

All that remains of the old factory that the company (at that time called Zuid-Nederlandse Spiritus Fabriek) built in Bergen op Zoom, in southern Holland, is the 75m tall chimney, erected in 1938.

The restoration project is the result of the cooperation of two organizations, BOEI and Monumentenfonds Brabant, both committed to conserving monuments of the industrial age for the future, and safeguarding the town's rich historical heritage.

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Denmark - With his first major label release Behold, Danish singer-songwriter Mads Langer is now breaking through as an international artist. Bringing his guitar-based ballads to a wider audience, DiGiCo SD11 consoles and Neumann digital microphones were a feature of Langer's end-of-year European tour.

Sound company for the tour was Victory Tour Production, a long-term DiGiCo rental house that provided a pair of SD11s and shared SD racks for the tour purchased via DiGiCo's Danish distributor Soundware, with DiGiCo supplying AES42 interfaces.

"We wanted to use Neumann dig

USA - For nearly two decades, the organisers of the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival have been attracting world music fans to Boonville, California for an event that emphasises community, social and environmental responsibility and the unifying power of music. While they've always held the conviction that music has the power to move mountains, this year, with their main FOH powered exclusively by Lab.gruppen PLM 20000Q amplifiers, they came a fair bit closer to being able to do so literally.

Although Sacramento Production Services has been providing audio for the three-day festival

USA - Moving to provide its consolidated international distributor network with a new level of training support, The AVC Group has announced the roll out of a comprehensive 2012 training programme that combines trade show, internet, and field based classes into one comprehensive global training initiative.

According to Ken Johnsen, international training manager at The AVC Group, the new programme was rolled out last month at ISE 2012 and featured brand specific training on the ELAN, Niles, Xantech, Sunfire, and ATON brands. "Over a five day period we trained a large percentage o

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