Core Business / Area of Diversification
Equipment hire and sales
Equipment and staging installation
Technical event production
Key Personnel/Contacts
Martin Hawthorn, Managing Director
Simon Wood, General Manager
Dave Slater, Hire Manager
Alan Jackson, Head of Installations
Mick Freer, Concert Touring
Company Address
Crown Business Park
Old Dalby
Leicestershire
LE14 3NQ
UK
Business Operating Zone
UK & Worldwide
Company Profile
We are award-winning creative technical production experts. It’s our job to help make your productions look and sound amazing. And after nearly 30 years in the business, we really know our stuff.
Named by the London Stock Exchange in 2015 as one of the ‘1000 Companies to Inspire Britain’, we believe every show or production should be an incredible experience. Through our equipment hire, permanent installation or create services we create bespoke technical solutions to meet your specifications and to help bring your vision to life.
Open 7 days a week, we are the largest independent technical event equipment suppliers in the UK, with a huge state-of-the-art range available for hire, from lighting, sound and video to staging, power, rigging and drapes.
Since 1987, we’ve installed lighting, sound, video and related equipment into a huge range of venues, working sensitively within each space to create a technical infrastructure tailored to deliver the performance capabilities you wish to achieve. We sell equipment from leading manufacturers too.
Based in Leicestershire, Cambridge and London, with our cutting-edge gear, ingenious team and unwavering focus on quality, we’re proud to deliver a truly amazing service. And that’s why many of our clients choose to work with us again.
Recent Projects
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Current Projects
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Exhibitions
ABTT Theatre Show
BNC Event Show
BVE
Event Buyers Live
Event Organisers Summit
Event Production Show
Event Tech Live
Plasa
Showlight
The Education Show
The Meetings Show
The Theatres Trust Conference
Affiliations
ABTT
ALD
PLASA
PSA
NIC EIC
EVCOM
ISES
The Theatres Trust
STLD
InfoComm International
Awards
Martin Audio UK Rental Company of the Year 2005
Zero 88 UK Independent Dealer of the Year 2005
Event Technology Awards – Best Audio Visual Technology for Safe House at Brighton Festival 2014
Festival Supplier Awards – Best Lighting for Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts 2014
EVCOM Clarion Awards – Best Sustainable Event Provider for Cambridge e-Luminate Festival 2014