Clear Presentations

We are delighted to announce that we have been re-appointed to produce the North West Regional Construction Awards 2012 and 2013 following a highly competitive 6-way pitch process.

The awards, organised by the Centre for Construction Innovation and the University of Salford, are now in their sixth year and will take place on Thursday 31 May 2012 at The Palace Hotel, Manchester.

Managing Director Barry Hardman said, ‘We are thrilled to win the contract for full production of the awards for both 2012 and 2013. We produced the events in 2010 and 2011 and it is great to be retained for the next two years.

The awards get bigger and better each year and always have a fun and exciting theme to tie together the branding, entertainment and whole feel of the evening. As part of our pitch we proposed a ‘Roaring Twenties’ theme that the team loved and we are really excited about. The theme fits perfectly with the venue, the audience and plans are all starting to come together to make this the best awards night yet.’

The awards are now open for entries until Thursday 8 March 2012 and more information about the awards, categories and sponsorship opportunities can be found at the event website www.constructionawardsnw.co.uk

We are a successful communications company with over 25 years experience. Specialising in live events, video and motion graphics we are based in fashionable Didsbury, Manchester

The events that we produce include awards ceremonies, roadshows, product launches and conferences. Our skills mean that each event that we work on runs smoothly, looks fantastic and delivers client objectives. We would like to recruit a new business professional who is currently working in the live events, marketing or agency sector and has experience of selling to marketing managers and other communication services buyers.

Key skills/responsibilities include:

This is an excellent opportunity to work with a great team of people dedicated to providing excellent customer service to major companies and organisations. We need you to build strong relationships with clients and that will mean keeping in contact them, understanding their business and getting involved in delivery of their projects.

We are offering a competitive package subject to experience.

Please send your CV to bh@clearpresentations.com

James Hogan, boss of Manchester City sponsor Etihad Airways will be the keynote speaker at this year’s North of England Excellence Awards.

The awards, now in their 17th year, are renowned as being the North’s premier business awards synonymous with quality, business excellence and continuous improvement, and the only awards to be endorsed by both the British Quality Foundation and the Chartered Quality Institute.

James Hogan, CEO of Etihad, is one of the leading figures in the airline industry worldwide and will be sharing his experience of improving business performance.

James has overseen rapid growth at Etihad, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates. The company recently launched twice-daily flights between Manchester Airport and Abu Dhabi and also announced a ten-year partnership with Manchester City which would see the stadium become the focal point of the wider Etihad Campus.

This year’s awards will take place on the evening of Thursday 10 November 2011 at one of the region’s newest and most outstanding venues The Point, Lancashire County Cricket Ground, Old Trafford, Manchester M16 0PX.

For further information on sponsoring or attending please visit www.clearpresentations.com/events/noeeawards2011

Clear Presentations are delighted to announce that once again we will be producing the Annual Chequered Ball on behalf of the Brain and Spinal Injury Centre (BASIC) a fantastic charity based in Salford that is affiliated to the Greater Manchester Clinical Neuroscience Centre and offers over 30 rehabilitation services to individuals and families that are largely left to cope on their own with the consequences of brain and spinal injury following discharge from hospital.

This year the ball will take place on Saturday 8 October 2011 at The Point, Lancashire County Cricket Club and we are delighted to announce that celebrity hairdresser Lee Stafford, patron of BASIC, will be attending the ball and has donated a fantastic prize for the live auction...

The prize is the ultimate hair makeover with Lee Stafford himself, at his loft apartment in Soho!

Enjoy a pre-appointment personal telephone consultation with Lee who will discuss not only your hair and look but also your favourite nibbles, drinks and even music. You will then visit him at his loft apartment in Soho where the nibbles, drinks and music will be awaiting you! The prize can be taken throughout the year at a mutually convenient time. Travel is included.

 This will be a couture appointment and Lee promises the winning bidder the following:

‘My  Couture Cut is a very different service from going into a salon, I will put my heart and soul into it—you won’t see this cut on anyone else, and it’ll be the best you’ll ever look’

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get the hairstyle of your dreams from award -winning Lee.
 
Tickets to the ball are still available and are priced at just £75 each (tables of 10 at £750) and all tickets include champagne on arrival, a delicious 3 course meal and live entertainment.

Other auction prizes include a Breitling watch, a holiday to the Caribbean and a Breitling Jet Experience...if you want to see what this involves take a look at this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez63f_iVsD8&feature=related

For further information or enquiries about tickets please call Andy on 0161 707 6441 or email andy@basiccharity.org.uk

Further information about Lee

Lee Stafford has an array of major Hairdressing Awards and Global products to his name. The star of Celebrity Scissorhands and a regular on Daytime TV – he is one of the most admired hairdressers in the world. 

Enjoy a pre-appointment personal telephone consultation with Lee who will discuss not only your hair and look but also your favourite nibbles, drinks and even music. You will then visit him at his loft apartment in Soho where the nibbles, drinks and music will be awaiting you!
www.leestafford.com

Didsbury-based live events agency Clear Presentations has been appointed to produce the North of England Excellence (NOEE) Awards.

Now in their 17th year, the awards are one of the longest established and most prestigious business awards events in the region. They are run by North of England Excellence, a not-for-profit body which helps organisations in the private, public and voluntary sectors to improve their performance.

The 2011 awards will take place on Thursday 10 November 2011 at The Point, Lancashire County Cricket Club’s new conference venue, and will feature guest speaker James Hogan, the CEO of Manchester City sponsor Etihad Airways.

Clear Presentations will be working alongside Chorlton-based Turquoise PR, which handles publicity for the event.

Account Manager Caroline Ellison at Clear said: ‘We were thrilled to be appointed as the event management and production agency for this event, it is fantastic to work on something that is so well established and high profile. The awards celebrate businesses from right across the North that demonstrate a commitment to continual improvement, innovation and business excellence. We have finalists from the North West, North East and from Yorkshire.

“The theme for the event really is excellence so we will be working hard to make sure that is carried through on everything from the creative to the entertainment. We have some high-profile speakers lined up so it is set to be a great evening.”

For further information please contact Caroline Ellison at ce@clearpresentations.com or on 0161 448 2424

Clear were asked by Places Matter! a Northwest Architecture and Design Centre to produce a short video to promote the Manual for Streets design philosophy. The aim of the video was to promote the Manual for Streets vision and encourage engineers, architects and planners who are involved in planning public realm spaces to attend a workshop to learn and understand more. The video needed to be in web format to go on various websites as well as social media sites.

The video needed to be contemporary, interesting and show real life examples of both good and bad public space.

Shot in the city centre of Manchester and presented by the Chair of the Places Matter! Design Review Panel Martin Stockley, the video used a combination of live footage and stylish graphics created in Final Cut.

Clear were responsible for full production of the video including: storyboarding, scripting, filming, directing, editing, graphics and music. Two versions of the video were produced including a 12 minute edit and a 5 minute highlights edit.

The outcome was a video that looks professional, modern and really gets across the key messages of Manual for Streets.

Take a look at the video for yourself... click here

For further information please contact Caroline Ellison at ce@clearpresentations.com or on 0161 448 2424

Clear Presentations worked with our sister agency Clear Marketing on the production of exciting, dynamic and vibrant Motion Graphics for Manchester Pride 2011. The on screen graphics were used throughout the four day festival and needed to look fresh, colourful and edgy. They were used to kick off the festival, introduce the performers who would be entertaining the crowds including Pixie Lott, The Sugarbabes and Alexandra Burke, reinforce branding and advertise sponsors and supporters.

The graphics needed the wow factor and the vibrant Motion sequence Clear Presentations put together certainly did this. The team at Pride were thrilled with how the graphics looked and the crowds’ reaction.

For further information please contact Caroline Ellison at ce@clearpresentations.com or on 0161 448 2424

In July we staged the national Eco Schools Show at Bolton Arena on behalf of Keep Britain Tidy and the Eco Schools programme. The event was attended by over 2,500 school children, teachers and public sector buyers.

The full day show consisted of an exhibition area, educational workshops, interactive activity zones, ‘ask the expert’ sessions and a main stage with musical performances from school children across the North West region.

The event is aimed at promoting healthy, active and sustainable lifestyles to schools and school children. The event attracted over 40 exhibitors including Homebase, British Recycled Products and HSBC.

Highlights of the show included a flag parade around the venue and a surprise appearance from 2010 X Factor Finalist John Adeleye who performed his new single which has been written to support the charity Project Waterfall.

Clear Presentations were responsible for the full production of the event including:

The event was a re-sounding success and was reported as being the largest and most successful to date. Plans are already taking shape for next year’s event with a venue search on for a space big enough to house the show!

For further information please contact Caroline Ellison at ce@clearpresentations.com or on 0161 448 2424

Clear Presentations have been successful in winning a competitive pitch to produce and manage the 10th Meeting Industry Marketing Awards (MIMA) taking place at the Riverbank Plaza Hotel, London on Monday 17 October 2011.

We were successful in winning this two stage pitch against several other agencies and are delighted to be associated with such a prestigious and recognised event.

Managing Director Barry Hardman said, ‘This is a great win for us and we are really looking forward to working on this exciting project. It is great to be involved with producing an event that celebrates and recognises the innovation and creativity that thrives within the meetings and events industry. The event will be held in a stunning venue and we are anticipating up to 350 guests from across the UK and from all areas within the industry. It is going to be a great event.’

MIMA was launched in 2002 to raise the standards of marketing in the meetings and events industry and is organised by Meetings & Incentive Travel magazine. The judging panel is made up of some of the biggest names in the events industry and their expertise and prestige brings real credibility to the awards.

Entries are now open and award categories include Best Direct Marketing Campaign, Best DVD, Best Use of Budget and Best Live Marketing Event. Entry deadline is Thursday 30 June 2011 and further details can found at www.meetpie.com/mimaregistration.asp

Tickets are also on sale and can be purchased online at http://www.meetpie.com/Modules/EventModule/MIMA/MIMATicketSales.aspx

For further information please contact Caroline Ellison at ce@clearpresentations.com or on 0161 448 2424

The brief
Clear were appointed by Souter PR, a long standing partner of the agency, to help with a re-brand that included logo refresh and a new website. As Souter PR were celebrating their 10th year in business the brief was to create a new look that was fresh, vibrant and creative. Souter PR wanted to emphasise its different service offerings and make them more clearly defined on the website. Souter provided background info on the three sub-brands and Clear set about refreshing the parent logo and developing three new sub-brands as a basis for the site.
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To mark the anniversary and to reflect new impetus behind the business Souter PR wanted to website to look professional and contemporary and reflect Souter PR’s approachability and personality. The site also needed to contain lots of evidence of what a PR campaign should look like, the breadth of work Souter PR offered plus case studies and testimonials to communicate a results-oriented culture. It also needed to allow Souter PR to make changes and manage their own content ongoing and show live links to Twitter and Linked in – key community portals for the agency.

Clear’s response
We took the brief and started working up designs in-house coming up with a few design options and colourways at the outset. Souter PR liked the first designs and we worked together to tweak them. Souter PR provided copy and the whole project evolved as a partnership over the course of about four months from concept to going live. We focused efforts on a really striking home page, made sure it was easy to navigate and that the look was suitably sleek and stylish. Contemporary features, images and icons are used throughout the site to achieve this. The CMS is easy to use and the incorporation of social media, SEO and clever coding was designed to help boost traffic to the site and increase online visibility. This was an especially demanding brief in the sense that this was a communications agency’s website so the pressure was on to say we can do this and do it well.

Working together
Clear and Souter PR developed a good working relationship throughout with a mix of technical and client management expertise. Everything was done pretty much as soon as was asked – even if the client changed her mind.

Results
The website went live mid-May 2011 and we have had some fantastic comments. Many people commented on what a fresh, bright site it was – great use of pink – and that they were drawn in to explore – which was one of the goals of the relaunch. Its links with social media keep it ever fresh and changing and links to youtube showing video testimonial around the kind of work the agency undertakes for major brands.

Client testimonial
Managing Director Sue Souter said: “Re-launching a website is a major challenge and Clear steered us through it with great patience, a good eye for design and super functionality which we think appeals to our customers. It’s easy for us to update also – a key consideration – we are uploading content daily now and publishing blogs and releases from across the client portfolio. We can hold our heads up high now and start to approach top notch clients. Thank you Clear for a great experience. It was good to work with you. Also loved the refreshed look around the brand logo and sub-brands – much more modern and confident – thanks."

To visit the site click here

Clear are pleased to confirm that following a competitive tender process we have been successful in retaining our place on the Food Northwest preferred suppliers list for the following services:

Clear began working with Food Northwest in 2005 and have worked with them to produce a range of events including the 5 annual Food and Drink Awards and the Fine Food Awards.
Project Manager Caroline Ellison said, ‘The projects we have worked on with the team at Food Northwest have been extremely varied – they have ranged from glitzy award dinners in fabulous hotels to filming in factories and on farms. It has been great to work with Food Northwest over the last six years and we are delighted that we will continue to work with them in the future.’