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News and advice from the events world

Updates from the Bill Bowden team, plus handy hints and tips for getting the most from your event or exhibition.

30 November 2018 BBEL moves to bigger and better premises Bill Bowden Event Logistics has left our home for the last four years to take up residence in a larger and more modern facility on Faraday Road, Crawley. Read more
10 September 2018 How we help Nottingham University’s events team attract the talent of the future Nearly a third of 18-year olds in the UK gained a place at University of College in 2017, and The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) anticipates similar numbers this year. Taking UK, EU and… Read more
20 August 2018 Event couriers – What do I need to look for in a professional event courier? These days it seems that all you need to set yourself up as an event courier is a website, a mobile phone and access to a white van. Read more
9 August 2018 Festival of Quilts 2018, Birmingham NEC August may seem an odd time to be preoccupied with quilts, especially after the scorching Summer we’ve been experiencing. But quilts have been at the forefront of our minds here at BBEL over recent weeks as we prepared… Read more
18 July 2018 Announcing Bill’s Book of Events – for Events Pros and Novices I’ve spent more than 25 years working in the events logistics industry. Over that quarter of a century, I think I’ve pretty much seen it all. Exhibitors who seem to get everything right and have a hugely successful… Read more
4 July 2018 BBEL scores a World Cup winner Wow! What a match! Read more
26 June 2018 Client events – 13 tips to make your seminars more successful Organising your own client events may involve a lot more work than say, a webinar. But the opportunity to meet clients and potential clients face-to-face – with no competitors around to cramp your style – cannot be… Read more
5 April 2018 Exhibition Stand Delivery and Build Step-by-Step During our recent excursion to Düsseldorf for the Make-up Artist Design Show 2018 (#MADS2018), I thought it might be interesting to share the process of how we delivered and constructed an eye-catching stand for our… Read more
27 March 2018 Event objectives – What should they be? In an earlier blog, I wrote about how to set objectives for exhibitions, conferences and events. Since then I’ve received a few requests asking for more specific ideas about what those event objectives should be. I… Read more