Looking to the future

Dennis Mills’ return from Brazil in late March has heralded a flurry of MEI event activity with both a Brazil Briefing (reported in our last Brazil Journal) and a member’s Meeting (report to members sent last week) taking place in April.  The next Security and Resilience Briefing is taking place at CT Expo on Wednesday 25^th April at which we hope to see some members and following that we are focusing on our next MEN Briefing generously sponsored by Global Games Sports (see opposite) which is taking place on Wednesday 9^th May and at which the focus will be fan parks, brand experience, crowd interaction and maximising visitor involvement.  Brad Alexander from LCI Productions will be speaking as will Teresa Moore from Bucks New University.  Again, we hope to see as many of you there as can make it and do invite your key clients as guests.

Looking further forward we will be hosting our second Brazil Briefing of the year on the 10^th July.  This will be combined with a full MEN Briefing and we hope to have some influential and interesting speakers on the podium for that event.  Focus on ‘Life after London 2012’ and Qatar will follow in September and November.  Our negotiations with the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce continue and we hope to be able to announce our first event in Scotland before too long.  We hope to be able to announce our ability to offer discounted stand space and delegate passes at both Expo Estadio (21-23 Nov,  S Paulo) and Soccerex (24-28 Nov, Rio) by the end of the month.  We will be sending out details of our exclusive offer to all members in May.

Finally, please note in your diaries that the next Member’s Meeting will take place in Elizabeth House on Tuesday 3^rd July.  We look forward to seeing you here.

Businesses get enthusiastic about Brazil

On Wednesday 4^th April 2012 Major Events International held their first Brazil Briefing of the year in their offices in  Waterloo.  

The event was well attended and consisted of an introduction to Brazil followed by a detailed presentation describing the ways in which MEI is able to support businesses through promotional activity and intelligence. 

 Virgilio Pereira Guimaraes from the Commercial Section at the Embassy of Brazil was present and was able to add incisive support to the presentations and also added illustrative answers to many of the questions posed by other attendees.  Chris Matthews and Brad Alexander from LCI Productions were present, as was Teresa Moore from New Bucks University, both members of our Major Events Network (MEN) and both with possible aspirations towards Brazil.  

Nabas Legal, with whom we have a close working relationship, were represented by Jose Augusto Gama and Soccerex were represented by Kristian Dobrev and Julian Salas.  Kristian was able to expound on the value of Soccerex as an event in Rio and Piers Lawson of MEI took the opportunity to promote the partnership between Soccerex and MEI and highlighted the opportunities available to companies through this relationship.  

Two companies with on-going plans for work in Brazil were also present.  AMS Acoustics, a member of the MEN and Systems Consultants Services Limited who have recently returned from a mission to Brazil.  Their feed-back and impressions added to a lively and informative afternoon