Vickie Southgate joins as an Account Manager working across Coca-Cola Enterprises and Molson Coors (UK). Vickie was previously the Project Co-ordinator at Winning Pitch and has considerable event management experience implementing their Hi-Growth programme. “Vickie has only been with us for 4 weeks and is already embedded into the team and adding value to clients’ projects” adds Karl Perry, Managing Director.
The agency has also appointed 2 Event Co-ordinators to help manage the growing nature of requests from existing client companies. Jade Hitchins and Sarah Haigh are both event management students from Huddersfield University taking part in a one year placement programme. The two will return to their course in September 2012 by which time the agency intends to have recruited two further placement students.
Karl Perry, Managing Director explains the strategy. “ We are inundated with CVs and requests for placements and decided to bring a few in just to see the calibre of the students out there. We were particularly impressed with students from the Huddersfield course. Hopefully we can build an on-going relationship with the Uni as a means of identifying and nurturing future, permanent employees, on a rolling basis. I suppose we’re aiming to create our own talent-greenhouse!”
In addition to winning repeat business from SG World and other long standing clients, the agency is expanding its offering to go beyond traditional event management into areas such as design and App development. “There’s no denying that times are still tough for many companies but we are finding that business here continues to grow. By expanding our offering and growing our account handling resource we are underlining our commitment to offer our clients a top drawer product and impeccable customer service.”
