Set from Barcelona

What a great Set!!

Akzo Marketing Conference Success

Hi all I know I've been away from blogging for a few weeks, but im back ready and refreshed after a nice weeks holiday in sunny Palma de Mallorca!! The run up to the conference in Barcelona went so quickly & in a hop skip and a jump we were onsite and ready to create an event to surpass all their expectations!! Day one involved me and another colleague going to Barcelona airport to deal with all the transfers for arriving delegates from Akzo which is a huge global company selling Dulux Paint amongst over brands. We spent the morning meeting&greeting everyone and sending them on their way to the ME hotel. In the afternoon we had organised a city tour for the delegates of the whole of Barcelona! Some of the sites included the famous La Segrada Familia, The Olympic Harbor, the beautiful Park Guell and Casa Milla! It was a really enjoyable afternoon, we got back to the hotel had a quick turn around and then went to the Montjuic ex Xalet for a 3 course meal with the main room slowly revolving as we ate. Some of the guests had no idea and it came as quite a surprise when they found themselves positioned some where completely different to where they had first started! On the second day the actual conference began with a fantastic video montage of what makes a brand? The business content then began with breakouts throughout the day and a buffet lunch, followed by a Gala Dinner in the evening complete with Flamenco dancers and a fantastic spoof speech by the legendary Clive Panto. Clive started the evening mix and mingling with guests pretending to be a environmental governing appointee for Akzo, it later came out through his speech that it was a spoof. His speech was legendary; he made fun out of the senior heads of the company and had the room in stitches throughout! The night ended on an absolute high with all the guests enjoying their fill of wine and good food. On the second day of the conference we had a huge surprise for the delegates. After the morning business content we had organised one of our in house team building activities 'The Apprentices'. We had 6 tasks, one was creating and branding their own perfume to go and sell on the streets of Barcelona. The second and third were chocolate tasks, where they had to go out and sell truffles and chocolate moulds. The fifth was fashion; where they had to design and create their own clothes, culminating in a huge fashion show in the evening and lastly we had a Barcelona Tourism task where we asked the delegates to develop and create their own video about Barcelona. The event was a huge success with everyone having a lot of fun in the creating designing and selling process, it all culminated in a boardroom where the teams found out who had made the most money and who was ultimately hired and fired by our own Sir Alan Sugar. On the Friday morning the delegates were shown a video that we had developed and edited on site, it was a fantastic montage of the whole conference which had a real lasting effect with everyone leaving on a real high! The feedback we received was amazing, people kept coming up to me with huge "thank you's" of how well it had gone bearing in mind it had all been so last minute (we only had 5 weeks) they were really impressed. All in all a great success!