The ACC Liverpool Group – Tender for the Provision of Email Platform and Services
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Commercial in Confidence
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1. Overview
We are The ACC Liverpool Group – operators of a world-class event campus located
on the banks of Liverpool’s world heritage waterfront, ACC Liverpool, home to Echo
Arena, BT Convention Centre, Exhibition Centre Liverpool and ticking agency Ticket
Quarter. The ACC Liverpool campus is a family of venues, experiences and services
for the local, national and international events market. We play a leading role in
shining a spotlight on Liverpool, we have successfully staged a wide array of
national and international events, from shows and conventions, business gatherings
to showcase exhibitions, developing our offer over the last decade to that of a world
class provider of venue and event services.
The versatile BT Convention Centre facilities include a 1,350 seat auditorium, 18
breakout rooms, 3,725m
2
of exhibition space and a range of sustainable credentials
having been designed to produce half the CO
2
emissions it would without any
environmentally-friendly measures.
Sister venue Echo Arena Liverpool is an 11,000-seat arena with 22 hospitality VIP
Boxes and The Liverpool Collection Lounge with a packed programme of
entertainment and sporting events throughout the year.
In September 2015, The ACC Liverpool Group expanded its offering with the
opening of Exhibition Centre Liverpool, adjacent to BT Convention Centre and Echo
Arena, providing an additional 8,100m
2
exhibition facility, taking the total to 15,225m
2
of interlinked and flexible event space.
A pedestrian link bridge connects the new and existing venues making it the only
purpose-built interconnected arena, convention centre and exhibition facility in
Europe. A 216-bedroom Pullman hotel, which forms part of the development,
opened in February 2016.
Ticket Quarter is a ticketing agency created in 2012, we have since expanded the
services we provide to include support for event promoters and venues including
online ticketing; contact centre; marketing and promotional support; customer
service support and account management. We have grown our portfolio and we
now sell tickets for music, comedy, theatre and arts, family entertainment,
exhibitions and sport for a variety of regional venues and more than 200 events
across the North West including St George’s Hall and Farmaggedon and Liverpool
International Music Festival (LIMF).
The ACC Liverpool Group works closely with Clients helping to ensure the success
of their events and delivering the best possible service. Our vision is to be a
successful world class arena, convention centre and exhibition centre and the
ticketing agency for the North West that serves its customers to the best of its
abilities and attracts visitors to Liverpool, thereby contributing to the long term
growth and prosperity of our enterprise, our city and its people.