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NEWS FOOD INNOVATIONS
GIVING BACK
Delivering over £5m
revenue in banqueting
Success at the ICC and the Vox in only 12 months
We are proud to announce that Annie
Monnox, our Catering General Manager
of the Genting Arena, has been awarded
the title of ‘Best Business Advisor’ at the
Young Enterprise Awards for Birmingham
and Solihull.
The Young Enterprise Company
Programme provides young people (aged
15–19 years old) with the opportunity to
set up and run their own real company
while they are still at school or college. Each
company is guided through the experience
by a volunteer adviser from a local business.
For the last two years Annie has been
a business adviser for St. Martin’s School
based in Solihull, helping school children
throughout the project as they form a
company and then design and retail a
product. At the Birmingham and Solihull
finals, where students presented their
companies and products, Annie was awarded
the ‘Best Business Advisor’ award for the
excellent guidance she provided to those
at St. Martin’s School.
Annie said: “I decided to become a
business advisor for Young Enterprise as
I wanted to give something back to the
schools. I didn’t have a great experience at
school and I wanted to show children if I
can get to where I am today, so could they.”
For more information on the
scheme please visit the website:
https://www.young-enterprise.org.uk
The International Convention Centre
(ICC) and the Vox Conference Centre are
celebrating a successful 12 months
having delivered over 230 banqueting
events for 71,500 delegates, resulting in
a combined revenue in excess of £5m
across both venues.
Sales Director of the ICC and the Vox,
James Elston, said, “Stand Alone Banqueting
is very important to our venues. It not
only helps to keep our venues busy in the
evenings and over weekends, but it also
plays a vital role in the local economy. With
tens of thousands of delegates visiting our
venues annually for banquets, this only
has a positive impact on the surrounding
hotels, bars and restaurants in the city
centre where the ICC is based and on the
NEC campus where the Vox is part of the
integrated leisure complex, Resorts World.”
“The banqueting space we offer is also
vitally important to a growing number
of charity events that we host on annual
basis. We are able to bring together a
large amount of people in the same
room for their events enabling them to
raise phenomenal amounts of money for
extremely good causes.”
Always striving to provide an
unparalleled dining experience, £140k
has recently been invested in a new
range of table top light equipment setting
the catering offer apart from the typical
conference and banqueting environment.
The new tableware, including crockery
based around free flowing, organic
concepts, drives a new style of food
presentation which is designed to enhance
the fresh, great tasting food, provided by
Amadeus at both venues.
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