Adding custom printing to tents

June 1, 2010  |  Event Production, Features, Management

Help your customers stand out among a sea of white structures with graphics printed on tents. By Holly O’Dell Businesses and organizations competing for the attention of consumers do everything possible to distinguish themselves. As such, everyone from NASCAR sponsors to farmers market vendors…
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Preparing tented events for Mexico celebration

June 1, 2010  |  Project Briefs

Grupo Serna readies for a year of tented events celebrating Mexico’s bicentennial and centennial. Mexicans officially kicked off their 2010 bicentennial celebration in September 2009 with a “Grito de Independencia” (“Cry of Independence”) bash in Mexico City’s fam…
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Double-decker tents

June 1, 2010  |  Project Briefs

Regal Tent Productions reaches new heights at Winter Olympics. Before world-class figure skaters pulled off their triples and quads at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Regal Tent Productions Ltd. completed a couple of doubles. The Stoney Creek, Ont., Canada-based company erected for the first time two doub…
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Designing tent entrances

April 1, 2010  |  Features, Tent Décor

Creative and well-designed tent entrances will make clients and guests take notice. By Meleah Maynard Temporary structures can be works of art, and Medley, Fla.-based EventStar Structures proved it when the company designed and installed the Audi Pavilion for the German car company’s centennia…
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Snow-covered wedding for Jonas brother

April 1, 2010  |  Project Briefs

A tent, a Jonas brother and a blizzard. On December 19, 2009, at Oheka Castle in Huntington, N.Y., a crew from P.J. McBride Inc., West Babylon, N.Y., battled the weather—and won. The company was hired to provide the tent for the high-profile Kevin Jonas wedding. The goal of the groom—the…
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Alberta & British Columbia are beautiful and challenging locations to be in the tent rental business

April 1, 2010  |  Project Briefs

Surrounded by mountains, lakes, ski resorts and wineries, the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada, is a beautiful—and challenging—location to be in the tent rental business. “I am sure our plight is no worse than many others, but we do live in a valley on a lake with rocky …
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Race to finish Olympic tents

April 1, 2010  |  Project Briefs

Preparing for the last leg of the race. By Janice Kleinschmidt With just a week before the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and more than 620 tents installed, you might think the staff of Karl’s Event Rental could sit back and relax, knowing their job was done. But that woul…
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New tent design debuted at wedding

April 1, 2010  |  Project Briefs

A family wedding for a longtime client was the perfect opportunity for Custom Covers to introduce a new tent design. Tent renter Ridgeway Marquees Ltd. of Redditch, Worcestershire, England, has been a longtime customer of tent manufacturer Custom Covers (1984) Ltd. So when Ridgeway owner Tim Jones w…
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Wildly successful installation at Central Park Zoo

April 1, 2010  |  Project Briefs

A tent installation in New York City’s Central Park Zoo was so well received that the client decided to keep it up. To say that organizers of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s 2009 Central Park Zoo gala were happy with the work of Stamford Tent & Event Services is an understatement…
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Immersive media screen provides surround perspective

December 1, 2009  |  Industry News, Tent Décor

Geodesic projection cupola extends the possibilities of 360° screenings. ZENDOME the Berlin manufacturer of geodesic event architecture, has developed a mobile alternative to conventional projection screens: the immersive media screen. The screen provides a new surround perspective for use by ev…
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