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Ten Alps Communications PLC 23 April 2004 For release 7.00 am 23 April 2004 Ten Alps Communications Plc Contract Gain with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ten Alps Communications Plc, the AIM-listed media group, announces that its subsidiary Ten Alps Events ('Ten Alps') has won a £3 million contract with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The contract is to design, install and manage the UK stand for the Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan, and was won following a competitive tender. Ten Alps will be producing the project in close collaboration with The Natural History Museum and Land Design. Work begins immediately, and creative details of the exhibition will be released in the spring of 2005. 'This is a fantastic opportunity and we are delighted to have been entrusted to produce the British Pavilion in such a high profile global forum. It will be pleasure to work again with the Foreign Office.' said Tim Spencer, Managing Director of Ten Alps Events. Ten Alps Events produces large-scale live events and exhibitions for a range of corporate and public sector clients. Its most recent high-profile success was 'Brightening Up London', sponsored by Orange, in which images were projected on Buckingham Palace and other iconic buildings for New Year. End Further information: Ten Alps Events: Tim Spencer, Managing Director 020 7089 3686 Ten Alps Communications Plc PR: Jacqui Graves/Peter Binns, Binns & Co PR Ltd 020 7786 9600 Note to Editors: Ten Alps Events was acquired by Ten Alps Communications Plc in 2001. Before its acquisition, the Company was known as Pacesetter, set up in 1992 by Tim Spencer. The Foreign Office project is the second largest ever contract won by Ten Alps Events. Other significant government assignments project-managed by the Company were the key elements of the VE Day celebrations in Hyde Park, and the VJ celebrations at Buckingham Palace. It was also responsible for the design, development and delivery of the official London New Years Eve 1999 celebrations, in which Tim Spencer had hands-on involvement as project director. In addition to Ten Alps' marketing success with Orange on the pre-Christmas 2003 and New Year 'Brightening Up London' campaign, the Company has undertaken other innovative projects with clients such as: Corus, EMI, Sony Playstation, RMC, NCR and l'Oreal, Capital Radio and O2. In February this year, Ten Alps signed a strategic alliance with the US-based global event-marketing firm, The Radiate Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Omnicom Group. Tim Spencer has 20 years' experience of effective project management of large-scale events having been trained both in the theatre and at the internationally renowned events company Imagination. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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