So, tonight’s the night! And I’ve got my fingers crossed. That’s when we’ll learn if we’ve won either of the two categories we’ve been shortlisted in for the Business is…
The oval ball takes centre stage as England Rugby World Cup looms
Sports & Leisure, Temporary Events
While football fans across the land switch off as the Premiership programme gives way to Euro qualifiers, rugby union takes centre stage with the autumn internationals and the run-up to…
Zaun fence backdrop to Apprentice winners’ Orbit abseil
Sports & Leisure
I had a bit of a Bonfire Night outburst last week when I watched episode five of the latest series of The Apprentice with Alan Sugar and his wannabe business partners. Summit had just pipped Tenacity in…
Securing a better future for Tory party
Temporary Events
As the dust settles on another Tory Party Conference, with news reports of the week, fortunately, being more about keeping people in the party than out of the conference, it got me thinking…
When in Rome . . . don’t catch a gelato cold
Security
Foreign business trips aren’t the walk in the park some people might imagine them to be. OK, so I am rather looking forward to my one day trip to Rome on the last Thursday of…
‘Ring of steel’ takes centre stage at NATO summit
Temporary Events
Our usual discrete presence in the background protecting world leaders got rather exposed this month as we were splashed all over the nation’s dailies and TV news channels at the NATO…
Dreaming of glory as football world descends on Manchester
Sports & Leisure, Temporary Events
The Soccerex Global Convention 2014 kicks off this weekend in Manchester – and we’ll be there among football’s administrators and top stars of today and yesteryear. It’s a dream gig for…
Go, Glasgow, Go! Let the Games begin!
Schools & Education, Temporary Events
I paid a visit to Glasgow last week and got all excited at the way the city, the Scots and the wider British Isles are embracing our second multi-sport international…
Ambassador, you’re really spoiling us
High Security, Security
I’m old enough to remember those classic Ferrero Rocher ads of the 1980s with the receptions at the ambassador’s residence in some unidentified European capital. But in all these years, I’ve never…
Warming up for Wimbledon with a tennis trivia post
Sports & Leisure
We’re just seven days away from one of the fixtures of the British sporting calendar – the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, the oldest tennis tournament in the world.…
Security industry gets to lord it
High Security, Security
I’m looking forward to visiting the House of Lords this evening for the annual security reception of ADS, the premier trade organisation advancing the UK Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space industries,…
If O’nly Orient had our Olympic staying power!
Sports & Leisure
I was heading to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park the other day to check up on a couple of Zaun‘s legacy projects there: – We’ve installed for the first time our DBS acoustic fencing system made from recycled…
My blessings go with Roy’s boys to Brazil
Sports & Leisure, Temporary Events
Roy Hodgson has named his squad of 23 for the World Cup next month – and taken our English lions to Portugal this week for their first preparatory training camp. The England team spent five…
Our nuclear effort earns high Dutch police praise
High Security, Security, Temporary Events
There’s rarely anything uplifting or designed to instil waves of pride as a ringing endorsement from an unexpected and independent source with nothing to gain from the praise. So it…
Counter Terror Expo 2014 – less ‘buzz’, same substance
Corporate
April is the season for spring showers, Easter bunnies . . . and the global gathering of counter-terror gurus and experts at Kensington Olympia! So last week, we legged it…
Sport can be big business
Corporate, High Security, Security, Sports & Leisure, Temporary Events
The SportAccord Convention organisers dub it as the place ‘Where Sport Meets’! I didn’t realise how accurate that was until I joined it for the first time at SAC2014 at the Susesi Convention…
Behind every great man . . .
Temporary Events
We’re gaining a bit of a reputation as the company to go to when world leaders gather, and their protection needs to be guaranteed. At the end of March, the…
Around the edge of the Emirates’ racing riches
Sports & Leisure
Meydan Racecourse Fencing Required! – The richest prize in world horse racing will be decided on Saturday at a five-star race track in Dubai that we had a hand in…
Olympic legacy undeniable – but fat chance we’ll become sportaholics!
Temporary Events
The first Great Newham London Run marked the re-opening of the Olympic Stadium a year after the Games. Last week we were told that the London Games paid for themselves in a…
Securing world leaders in Northern Ireland
Temporary Events
It’s sometimes tough doing a job where I can’t talk about what I’m working on to family and friends. It feels a bit like I’m living the double life of…
