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Buckinghamshire New University Professor assist with crowd safety at SXSW Festival in Texas(14/09/2011)
South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) Music in Austin, Texas, is one of the largest music festivals in the United States, with more than 2,000 performers playing in more than 90 venues around downtown Austin over four days, in March. Organisers of the music, film and technology festival have hired crowd management expert Professor Keith Still of Buckinghamshire New University to assist with crowd safety at next year's event due to take place in Aust... [more]
G4S Events provides security and crowd management services for the Ryder Cup(04/10/2010)
G4S Events has been appointed to provide a comprehensive range of security and crowd management services for the Ryder Cup, at Celtic Manor on the outskirts of Newport in South Wales. The contract saw G4S commit 650 highly trained specialist event personnel as part of an integrated suite of stewarding and security services. With the event attracting around 45,000 visitors a day, G4S has been at the Celtic Manor site since early July preparing ... [more]
Music enthusiasts and sports fans are risking their safety and security by purchasing black market tickets(30/06/2009)
Music enthusiasts, theatregoers and sports fans are risking their safety and security, by purchasing black market tickets as well as paying highly inflated prices. G4S Events’ annual Ticket Tout Index reveals event tickets purchased via unauthorised websites cost on average 64% more than the original face value. Sports fans are prepared to pay the highest premium for black market tickets, paying an average of 71% over the face value to their... [more]
G4S Events will safeguard venues attended by over two million sports and music fans this summer(28/05/2009)
Predictions of good weather, coupled with a weaker pound, has meant that many Brits are planning to holiday at home this summer and the UK Events market is consequently anticipating a busy season. G4S Events is set for its busiest season to date, with a non-stop summer schedule of over 250 events. In total, G4S Events will safeguard venues attended by over two million sports and music fans, as well as those attending arts and cultural festiva... [more]
G4S Events assists Metropolitan Police throughout the G20 Summit(09/04/2009)
G4S Events successfully supplied security support for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to assist the Metropolitan Police in the build-up to, and throughout, the recent G20 Summit of Heads of State, Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors on 2 April 2009. The company was also employed by HM Treasury to assist Sussex Police secure the G20 Finance Ministers Conference which took place in mid-March in Horsham, West Sussex. Over 500 ... [more]
G4S Events supplies event stewarding and crowd management services to The Grand National and The Derby Festival(03/04/2009)
G4S Events, the specialist event security and stewarding division of G4S Security Services (UK), has won a three year contract to supply Jockey Club Racecourses (JCR) with security and event stewarding services across a number of its sites including Aintree, Haydock Park, Epsom Downs and Sandown Park. The contract will see G4S Events supplying event stewarding, crowd management and hospitality services to two of the UK’s most high profile race... [more]
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