Open Air Business February 2017
The UK's outdoor hospitality business magazine for function venues, glamping businesses and outdoor event organisers
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Festival Supplier<br />
Awards <strong>2017</strong> Winners<br />
ALMOST 370 OF the UK festival<br />
and outdoor event industry’s<br />
leading suppliers and organisers<br />
attended the Festival Supplier<br />
Awards to celebrate the <strong>2017</strong><br />
winners on 26th January. Now<br />
in their third year, the awards<br />
recognise companies who work<br />
tirelessly to deliver great events,<br />
many of whose efforts often go<br />
unseen.<br />
Commenting on the success<br />
of this year’s awards ceremony,<br />
event director, Michelle Tayton<br />
said: “The Festival Supplier Awards<br />
are now firmly established as an<br />
important date in the festival and<br />
outdoor event calendar. We’ve<br />
got a great formula; a room full of<br />
fantastic people at the top of their<br />
game and plenty of networking<br />
opportunities for everyone who<br />
attends.”<br />
Among the winners were:<br />
› Best Concession/Bar -<br />
Peppermint Bars, Bestival<br />
› Best Glamping &<br />
Accommodation - Hotel Bell<br />
Tent, CarFest North<br />
› Best Toilets/Waste Management<br />
- Qdos Event Hire, Royal Windsor<br />
Horse Show & HMQ90<br />
› Best Power - Power Logistics, V<br />
Festival (Hylands Park)<br />
› Best Fencing/Hoarding - GAP<br />
Hire Solutions, V Festival<br />
(Weston Park)<br />
› Best Stage - Acorn Event<br />
Structures, Creamfields<br />
› Best Crowd Management/<br />
Security - Specialized Security<br />
Guarding Ltd, Reading Festival<br />
› Best Temporary Roadway/<br />
Walkway - LION Trackhire Ltd,<br />
RHS Chelsea Flower Show<br />
› Best Temporary Structure -<br />
Neptunus Ltd, The National<br />
Eisteddfod of Wales<br />
› Green Festival Supplier Award -<br />
Loowatt Ltd, Port Eliot Festival<br />
› Best Festival Support Service: 1st<br />
– Best Seating – Arena Seating,<br />
Edinburgh Festival Fringe and<br />
Edinburgh International, 2nd –<br />
Best Catering Equipment – PKL<br />
Group (UK) Ltd, Goodwood<br />
Festivals, 3rd – Best Creche –<br />
Nipperbout Ltd, Cambridge Folk<br />
Festival.<br />
New Office and<br />
Brand for Camp<br />
Champ<br />
AUSTRIAN DESIGNED CAMP Champ – the<br />
Explorer’s Kitchen has opened a new UK office<br />
on the north Norfolk coast at the award-winning<br />
Holkham Studios, within the spectacular Holkham<br />
Hall Estate.<br />
“The Explorer’s Kitchen is a luxury travel kitchen<br />
designed to reflect the golden age of luxurious<br />
travel,” says UK company director Oliver Roberts.<br />
“Modelled on the ‘campaign furniture’ used<br />
in Victorian exploration, the kitchen includes<br />
everything needed to prepare and host a deluxe<br />
dining experience in the great outdoors.”<br />
Roberts is also developing the company’s new<br />
outdoor hospitality brand Camp Champ Cook<br />
– Culinary Escapades, a luxury outdoor cooking<br />
hire service for corporate and celebratory dining,<br />
field sports hospitality and cooking masterclasses.<br />
“We've created a specialist 4x4 vehicle with a<br />
mobile kitchen, chef and crew,” says Roberts.<br />
www.campchampcook.co.uk<br />
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