21-Jun-2010 | The team at Event Planners Australia have several reasons to celebrate this year. First, the announcement of Event Planners’ Hobart office which opened in early 2010 demonstrating the value the company places on Tasmania as a key business events destination and their commitment to being a truly national company, providing high levels of local support and service to clients.
The addition of Hobart brings Event Planners’ Australian offices to five: Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane with a national staff of over forty.
Next was receipt of the prestigious Meetings & Events Australia Award for Excellence as Australia’s best meetings management company (over 8 employees) at the MEA Awards held in April 2010. In accepting the award Ray Shaw, Chairman commented “Event Planners Australia is a world-class meetings and event management company. Over the past 31 years we have strived to raise the bar of service levels and this award is recognition of our achievement in doing so”.
Perhaps then it was little surprise when the company announced in May 2010 the next chapter in its success story - Event Planners Australia would merge with MCI, the world’s leading globally integrated communication, association and event management company.
As part of the MCI Group, Event Planners will now have access to global resources with an additional 38 offices across 20 countries worldwide. This provides significant advantage for Event Planners’ clients in delegate boosting, in-country marketing and international promotion for Asia Pacific and international meetings.
"The merger enables us to provide clients access to an array of complementary services, our staff with long term global career opportunities and the Australian business events industry access to a pipeline of MCI managed international meetings and events", Ray said. "Given the size of the Australian market is can be difficult to achieve the economies of scale that MCI can now offer and we look forward to tapping into these resources to continue to design and deliver successful events for our clients."
Robin Lokerman, President MCI Asia Pacific was pleased to announce Event Planners Australia as MCI’s Australian partner. "Ray and his team have consistently played an important thought-leadership role in the business events industry in Australia. Their commitment to providing highly tailored, local service and their 100% client focus is well aligned with MCI", he said.
Event Planners will remain an Australian company under the same Executive Management Team who have become shareholders in MCI and members of MCIs Management Board and Team of Directors, contributing to the development and implementation of MCI’s global vision.
For further information please visit: www.eventplanners.com.au and www.mci-group.com/australia
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