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Thorns Group is launching a specialist new service to transform event, exhibition and conference space with its new Black Box draping solution.

The company has launched Classic Drapes, under the umbrella of Classic Technical Services, to offer a creative and versatile system for sectioning off theatre and seminar areas at conferences, exhibitions and corporate conventions. The new Black Box draping is already in popular demand, can maximise height, and provides a perfect backdrop for staging and themed areas ensuring that the eye is drawn to the centrepiece and not distracted by the background.

Classic Drapes, which can be customised for any event size, can also greatly assist the acoustics of theatres or live act areas as well as screen any void spaces. Using a revolutionary but simple system, the drapes can be installed in areas vast or small and have a highly professional visual impact.

Adam Aston, Exhibitions Director for Thorns Group, said: “Adding Classic Drapes to the existing portfolio of Thorns’ Group through our production arm Classic Technical Services is a natural progression for the company. Classic already delivers a range of audio-visual and PA systems and we are constantly striving to add innovative ways to offer clients even more creative input. The specialist drapes service does just that.”

He added: “We have already had a really positive response from not only conference and exhibitions organisers but also experiential and event organisers looking for an alternative solution for creating individual areas and to offer a dramatic or more effective finish. The Black Box solution is a uniquely effective way of creating defined spaces and feature areas.”

Each week Thorns Group supplies furniture and catering equipment to huge exhibitions, large hospitality areas at sporting events and festivals as well as conferences and conventions. The company is a market leader in the industry, constantly updating the products and services offered to meet the call for new and innovative looks.

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office* – the UK’s leading business event for PAs, office managers, and executive support professionals – has named Breast Cancer Campaign as its official new charity partner for 2013.

Given that thousands of office professionals are already key fundraisers for Breast Cancer Campaign, the charity is the perfect fit for office*, says event manager David Maguire:  “We’re delighted to be supporting a charity, which is so close to the hearts of the majority of our visitors to office*.  We hope this new partnership will further help to raise awareness and funds for the innovative research carried out by Breast Cancer Campaign.”

Combining a comprehensive training and development conference with a major trade exhibition, the 2012 event, which included the 2nd annual National PA Day, saw 175 leading business suppliers and service providers joined by over 3,687 office support professionals from thousands of different organisations from all across the country.  This year’s office*, which returns to London’s Olympia on 8-9 October, with a host of new speakers, exhibitors, and supporters, is expecting its fourth edition to be its biggest show yet.  This can only be good news for Breast Cancer Campaign, which is looking forward to meeting thousands more potential supporters at office* 2013.

Offices around the country support wear it pink, in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign, by pulling on something pink and helping to raise an average of £2million each year.  wear it pink is the UK’s biggest, pinkest fundraising day and money raised funds vital breast cancer research.  Sadly, one in eight women will face their own battle against breast cancer in their lifetime, which is why on Friday 25 October, Breast Cancer Campaign is urging everyone to join them in the fight against breast cancer and wear it pink, helping them to raise as much as possible to fund some of the most innovate breast cancer research.

Annabel Tompkins, wear it pink, senior manager at Breast Cancer Campaign says:  “Events like wear it pink in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign are vitally important in helping us raise money to support the 50,000 people who are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. We are continually staggered by the generosity of people taking part in wear it pink – and we would like to thank office* for their support, which will help Breast Cancer Campaign to save lives and reduce the impact of a breast cancer diagnosis.”

To register for a fundraising pack or to find out more about Breast Cancer Campaign’s flagship fundraising event – wear it pink, please visit www.wearitpink.co.uk.

office* returns to Olympia’s National Hall, London, on 8-9 October.  The show provides the best opportunity of the year for corporate buyers to see all latest products, services, technologies, and venues on offer from 200 of the country’s leading business to business suppliers.  Recent new additions to the 2013 exhibitor list include Global Travel Management; Quorn Business Travel; Wines Select; Urbanbite, one of London’s leading online food delivery providers; The Travel Professionals; Elsworth – Commercial Property Consultants; Reflex office products; DC Direct; Germany’sLebkuchen-Schmidt, the oldest mail order company for Lebkuchen (German gingerbread) and pastry delicacies; MBM Omega, an independent supplier of office products and print services; and Embarque, a new executive minicab service operating in London providing point-to-point and airport transfer services.

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