I go straight to www.gearhouse.co.za - a supply company that provides all event resources!

Please try Cool Music Productions for all your eventing needs. A true one stop service provider.
We do Indoor as well as outdoor sound (ecler DPC 7000). Professional Lighting, as well as DVD Productins. We use only the best equipment, ex Sony Anycast Line mixer, HDV Cameras, Steadycam, etc.
We never disappoint. Contact Jurie for referrals.
Contact details:
coolstudio@telkomsa.net
Cell 082 804 7417

Hi Merryn
There are other service providers out there too who deliver as good as Gearhouse.
If you want one of the biggest one stop shops, Gearhouse is good, but can on occasion be rather "big brother".
If you want some alternatives, there are many available to assist.
Try an independant consultant, or contact TPSA who are supposed to be the regulatory body for Technical, or SAACI who are supposed to be regulatory body for the Conference & Events Industry as a whole.

The internet most definitely proves to be more useful than the Yellow Pages. www.eventguru.co.za is an interactive and useful resource guide with checklists, service providers, etc. Contact Leon at www.lpunlimited.co.za for the best service and most cost-effective AV requirements. Go to www.confsa.co.za for a fantastic course on Event planning. Writestuff Publishing also publish a conference handbook called Direct Access which contains all information pertinent to venues around the country, event organisers, speakers and anything else you look for when planning a meeting/conference - www.writestuff.co.za. Get the book at no charge! Happy Planning!

Uhm, nice one on that reccomendation... eventguru doesn't exist.

Professional prevention ...

www.tpsa.co.za
Technical Production Services

www.ises.co.za
International Special Events Society

... rather than too late intervention.

We've been using a company called Function House located in the Western Cape - a great company but it took us quite a while to find them email: tanyat@iafrica.com - I would recommend that you consider whether they are registered companies, and do they have references? If you have a good reference for hard work done (promotional clothing) and successful event after successful event/ job completed.. you have a successful partner you can work with.

For any AV, staging, lighting and sound for conferences, launches, production etc, make use of only ONE company...UPSTAGE. Their motto is "we upstage the rest" and they certainly do. Their professionalism and technical know how are outstanding. See www.upstage.co.za

Hi there, a few colleagues and I was thinking of developing a website which will have pics of everything you can hire for an event.

This means that this website will contain pics of every venue, cup, plate, table, chair, knife, fork, etc, etc.

Do you think this will be a good idea? Would this help all those people that need to organise their events?

Hi

I think biz-community is a rather reliable source such info. I have found a whole lot of useful contacts in this website. For your next gig please consider Vibin Staging. We have a full range of audio visual systems, stages and lighting. We spot a high quality range featuring NEXO, DAS and Shure.

Best regards
Bheki

I am keen to find out about the publications that Writestuff produce, but the website address www.writestuff.co.za does not work. Has anyone used them and have the correct address?

Most of the WriteStuff titles were sold to 3S Media (Shortens) mid 2005. I understand that 3S has been planning to revamp saconference for a while.

www.media3s.co.za

www.agapeweddings.co.za - all their suppliers are checked out before going live on their website. VERY reputable and safe to use!

Another fantastic website is www.weddingsinsa.co.za - it is geared to weddings but covers every aspect of events.