Top Event Management Companies in New-Zealand

The event management industry plays a crucial role in driving economic growth and social development in New Zealand. The industry has been a significant contributor to the country's economy, with a contribution of approximately 1% to the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022 and employment of over 15,000 professionals. The industry has experienced steady growth in recent years, driven by a range of factors such as government initiatives, technological advancements, and changing consumer behavior. In this article, we will examine the current state of the event management industry in New Zealand, its key drivers and trends, as well as the challenges it faces and its future outlook.

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AMAZINGCO84 +61 1300 307 750

At AmazingCo, we’re obsessed with creating unique and super-fun experiences that bring people closer together.Our mission is to give everyone the opportunity to discover the world around them in interesting and unexpected ways, while building genuine connections that enrich their lives. In a time when digital addiction is leading to a lack of human connection, we embrace the best of technology to make your real-world experiences even better. We’ve made it easy to discover something new about a place you love. Learn something new about an old friend. Or explore a new destination entirely.AmazingCo as a business is a vibrant & high growth, VC backed start-up operating across the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. A purpose and values driven business with a proudly diverse and distributed team of over 100 people in every corner of the world, with a home base and headquarters in Melbourne, Australia.We’re completely reinventing the way experiences are designed and delivered globally. It’s been an incredible journey that has seen us grow rapidly. And all this growth is creating tremendous opportunities for our people. Think this sounds like you? Then we’d love to connect.

BX - BUSINESS NETWORKING REIMAGINED30 +64 9 870 1808

Bx is the fastest growing business networking community, with groups across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Baltic Region and the US! Join us online or face-to-face and grow your business xponentially!Come along to a BxNetworking Meeting near you!We have events all over Australia, New Zealand and Texas (US) running from Tuesday to Friday, with each location hosting their event on the same day on a fortnightly basis.At BxNetworking our meetings are relaxed, yet structured enough to ensure there are no awkward moments! Our agenda maximises the opportunities for referrals, connections and business opportunities. Every meeting location has its own leadership team to run the meeting and ensure you are well looked after and introduced to members and other visitors.

FOURTH WALL - THE COLLECTIVE OF CREATORS23 +61 2 8093 1600

Fourth Wall is the Collective of Creators; a strategic, creative and long-term project partner for progressive and forward-thinking organisations.By breaking through the fourth wall, you’ll connect directly with your audience. Fourth Wall is unrivalled, thanks to our innate theatrical intuition, our globally resourced team, and our unique trademarked approaches. Through the Collective of Creators we align like-minded specialists with each creation, ensuring every project has the best people carrying out their best work with the best resources.By continually fostering creation and innovation, Fourth Wall creates authentic, meaningful and immersive destinations. We transform behaviour by achieving audience cut-through that ensures your brand messages have lasting impact.When you collaborate with Fourth Wall, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation. Come join us.Contact Lavinia Bonne on +61 (02) 8093 1600 or lavinia@fourthwall.com.au.

FREELANCE EVENT/PROJECT MANAGER111 +65 6561 1255

Freelance Consultation and Event Management Service.Specialist in Festivals and Large-scale Events, with several years industry experience, having worked on several successful projects, including:- Southbeats Festival (Music Festival, Kent)- BGW (Music Festival, Sussex)- Ideal Home Show (Consumer Exhibitions, London/Manchester)- Big Reunion (Music Festival, Lincolnshire)

FREEMAN COMPANY5,741 +65 6513 8739

Freeman is a global leader in events, on a mission to redefine live for a new era. With a data-driven approach and the industry’s largest network of experts, Freeman’s insights shape exhibitions, exhibits, and events that drive audiences to action. The integrated full-service solutions leverage a 96-year legacy in event management as well as new technologies to deliver moments that matter.

HELPING HAND AGED CARE417 +61 8 8638 3555

Helping Hand provides residential aged care, home support services, health care and community programs to older people in metropolitan Adelaide and regional South Australia. Our comprehensive range of services reflects our commitment to choice for older people, and our investment in innovative research and partnerships shows our commitment to respond to our clients’ needs in the changing landscape of aged care in Australia. Whether our client chooses to remain in their own home or join us in our home environment, we believe that we must understand the client’s point of view and recognise their needs. Our clients and their families are provided with the opportunity to be included in their care, decision-making and planning at every step of the way. Helping Hand has gone from strength to strength for over sixty years, and now employs more than 1,200 staff and 600 volunteers, providing services to more than 7,000 clients across the state. Our work has a national influence on strategy for ageing – through direct consultation with the Commonwealth Government, we help shape thinking and policy. Our clients’ needs and their personal freedom drive how we innovate, plan, manage and deliver services – they are our motivation.

CELEBRITY SPEAKERS BUREAU, AUSTRALIA15 +61 1300 791 651

Inspire people at your next event with Celebrity Speakers, Australia’s premier Speakers’ Bureau. Established in 1978, we specialise in providing professional keynote speakers, MC’s, and entertainers to the Corporate, Government and Association events markets in Australia and Internationally. Celebrity Speakers represents the acknowledged leaders and experts from Business, Media, Science, Sport and Entertainment from Australia and around the world. We provide informed advice about the best people to Inspire, Inform, Educate and Entertain audiences at events ranging from a boardroom lunch for 10 people, to an International Conference with 10,000 people. Call 1300 557 580 and let us help you, find inspiring talent, for your next event.

JANDA PRODUCTIONS6 +64 9 951 0291

janda Productions, headed by Justine McKay & Andy Dowding, is a boutique agency specialising in Event Production, Sponsorship, and Project Management. With over 20 years of experience delivering large-scale high profile events of national and regional significance, our pride and commitment to our work provides us (and you) with a huge advantage.During the planning process we provide creative concept development and timelines, budget management, venue liaison, ticketing management, reporting structures, production and event management, as well as sponsorship sales and management.We are a small, dedicated, and collaborative team who are highly detailed in our approach. With end-to-end experience executing a range of events from premium Awards dinners, conferences, music shows, and charity fundraising campaigns, we thrive with every new challenge.

STARTUP GRIND645 +65 800 952 5210

Startup Grind is the largest startup community in the world, delivering education, connections, and opportunities to help startups grow. Through local events, flagship global conferences, startup membership, partnerships, mentor and investor programs, and online content – Startup Grind collectively reaches over 4 million startups in 600 cities and 125 countries worldwide.

BCD MEETINGS & EVENTS1,958 +65 6634 1455

We all know that as humans, we’re wired to connect – it’s science. But connecting means so much more with BCD M&E. We craft digital and live experiences that connect organizations with the people who matter the most. By creating personal experiences that establish true human connection, we unite emotions and action to inspire real change for organizations across the world.With over 35 years of expertise spanning event design and strategic meetings management, BCD M&E’s global network works closely with its partners to deliver innovative solutions that are customized to our clients’ needs and strategic intent. We focus on the user journey to bring people together, and to foster moments that engage, motivate, celebrate and inspire.We make it personal. We make it better.

FRESH CONCEPT8 +64 9 600 1240

We connect people to places. Fresh Concept is a multidisciplinary creative placemaking and events agency that works in both public and private sectors to bring a sense of community and place to a space. For the last 12 years we have worked with our clients in a collaborative way to realise objectives, connecting with our network of expert collaborators from every creative practise. We facilitate the transition of spaces to places, individuals to communities, and stagnance to vibrance. We use a few tricks to make that happen.We work at all levels of a project and are comfortable wearing multiple hats. Whether it’s high level discussions with a board of directors, or cleaning up rubbish, we are humble in our approach and value every role we play. Working across roles provides us with a balanced outlook on who we are, how we treat people, and how we want to be treated.We often enter a project in a facilitation role, providing strategy and structure for our clients to lead, while we lend support from the background.

TYPE 405 +64 9 377 4440

We make it happen. Just try us. Even if you think it’s impossible. Be it a multi-city roadshow, a live virtual showcase, a big bold brand design or an epic launch video, we’ll make it happen for you. We’re more than just an events company, and we do whatever it takes to deliver.

EVENT BASE LTD11 +64 9 846 8650

WORLD-CLASS EVENT ENVIRONMENTS & TEMPORARY STRUCTURESSince 2009, our core focus has been creating and delivering scalable modular and temporary structures for events, activations, hospitality environments, disaster relief, as well as commercial applications including temporary office and retail space, display and sales suites, information centres and media displays.We are design-led and capability backed with a vision to lead the NZ market in the delivery of re-configurable modular architecture and premium temporary infrastructure. We are driven by our desire to create, innovate, and deliver world-class results and clever solutions for our clients. We work with a wide range of clients across New Zealand, including local and global brands and corporations, retailers, hospitality and tourism sectors, local council, government agencies, major events, exhibitions and festivals, and brand and event agencies.We specialise in rapid turnarounds, with deployable solutions that minimise on-site time and disruption in public spaces, and are highly engineered for long-term use, weather tightness, customisation, and modularity.

CLIFTONS255 +61 1800 629 088

For over 25 years, Cliftons has been the go-to destination for creating remarkable events. Bringing together spaces, people and technology, we provide a one-stop shop for all your event management needs, using our contemporary venues and partner venues globally to suit events big and small. Through our in-house team and trusted partnerships, Cliftons can take care of all aspects of project management, audiovisual, marketing, team building, speakers and event logistics. We make seamless global event planning, management and delivery effortless. Cliftons is proud to be officially recognised as one of AU/NZs AFR BOSS Best Places to Work 2023.It’s time you discovered the remarkable corporate event experience.Learn More: www.cliftons.com

INFORMA AUSTRALIA161 +61 2 9080 4300

Welcome to Informa Connect Australia - the nations leading conference organiser - on Linkedin!Informa Australia produces 200 conferences, 30 exhibitions, and 500+ training courses a year across these industries and sectors: resources and mining; maritime and transport; finance, IT&T, healthcare, defence and government. Each year across the group we bring together approximately 1.1 million professionals from every corner of every continent, all looking to meet, network and do business.Follow us for regular updates about upcoming conferences and program launches, exclusive industry and sector insights, special promotions and more. Stay ahead by joining our community groups below, dedicated to bringing you the latest about these industries respectively:Rail Network Australasia >> http://ow.ly/YJh8R Transport Infrastructure Australia >> http://ow.ly/YJhQJGlobal Ports & Marine Operations>>http://ow.ly/YJl6Y Healthcare Professionals Australia >>http://ow.ly/YJlVlAustralian Industrial Relations and Work Safety>> http://ow.ly/YJm3a Mining and Resources Australasia>>http://ow.ly/YJmwTInternational Mining & Metals>> http://ow.ly/YJn84Northern Territory Resources Industry>> http://ow.ly/YJne4Australian Interior and Furniture Design>>http://ow.ly/YJnm1 Australian Defence Magazine (ADM) Events>>http://ow.ly/YJnPI Police Technology Network>>http://ow.ly/YJnLl Higher Education Australasia>> http://ow.ly/YJnAH

AVPN130 +65 6536 1824

AVPN is the worlds largest network of Social Investors active in Asia, with over 600+ diverse members across 33 markets. AVPN enables collaborations between policy makers, family offices, foundations and the private sector to increase the impact & flow of capital deployed towards closing SDG gaps in Asia. AVPN’s mission is to catalyse the movement toward a more strategic, collaborative and outcome focused approach to social investing, ensuring that resources are deployed as effectively as possible to address key social challenges facing Asia today and in the future.

EXHIBITION HIRE SERVICES NZ36 +64 9 579 9884

Complete exhibition solutions are available nationwide thanks to an alliance between leading New Zealand companies Exhibition Hire Services and Displayworks. Working together with your organisation they can create the environment you need to command attention in todays increasingly competitive market. Our experience and diverse product range enable us to provide you with endless innovative ways to create exciting and unique environments that can be delivered on time and within budget. As New Zealands only true nationwide exhibition company, no job is too big or too small, and the dedicated team is ready to deal with any enquiry. Having worked at all New Zealands major venues, the company understands the professionalism, creativity and organisation needed to make any event a success.

ITICKET19 +64 9 361 1000

iTICKET is a Kiwi born & bred company renowned across New Zealand for our innovative ticketing solutions, unsurpassed promoter support and friendly customer care. Founded in 2004, our tight-knit dedicated team have built on years of hands-on event experience to provide exceptional service in selling tickets online, onsite and in-person across over 40 outlets across the country. Were proud to work with a wide variety of genres from Festivals, Gigs & Nightlife to Theatre, Dance & the Arts as well as Sporting, Expos, Business, Lifestyle and Community events. Committed to making the running and attending of events a great experience from beginning to end, weve made it our mission to help deliver successful events we know youll love.

H3 GROUP NZ46 +64 7 929 3000

Welcome to H3, home to Hamilton’s premier event venues – FMG Stadium Waikato, Seddon Park and Claudelands (including GLOBOX Arena, Claudelands Conference & Exhibition Centre and The Grandstand) as well as event promotion brand HLive. Much more than just venues for hire, at H3 we truly care about your events as if they were our own. Our staff are award-winning event specialists who are dedicated to working alongside you every step of the way to ensure your event is a complete success.Whether it is a sporting event, concert, theatre show, conference, meeting or function, were passionate about attracting, delivering and promoting world-class events throughout our venues. H3 is a division of Hamilton City Council.Claudelands • EVANZ Supreme Venue of the Year 2014• EVANZ Large Venue of the Year 2014• EVANZ Large Venue of the Year 2019FMG Stadium Waikato • NZEA Best Venue 2018H3 • EVANZ Excellence in Innovation 2015 – Systems Transformation Project• EVANZ Excellence in Innovation 2016 – Relocation of Founders Theatre events• EVANZ Operations Manager of the Year 2016 – Sven Ladewig• EVANZ Operations Manager of the Year 2017 – Claire Toko• EVANZ Operations Manager of the Year 2018 – Ben Slatter07 929 3000 | info@h3group.co.nz

CONGRESS RENTAL NEW ZEALAND4 +64 4 213 8596

Congress Rental is a Simultaneous Interpretation equipment rental, Voting - Audience Response and Conference Microphone business; renting Bosch conference and congress systems for single and multi-language meetings, events and conferences. We use the latest technologies for our Voting / Audience Response solutions including tightly integrated keypad solutions to open Smart Phones solutions.We are Australasia’s leading and largest supplier of simultaneous interpretation rental services and have operated successfully in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Indonesia providing our services throughout Asia since 2005. Our equipment is new or near new and we are continually investing in new equipment and technologies.Our goal is to provide a perfect customer experience. By having Audipack booths and Bosch Interpretation equipment, we know we are providing the best equipment available, anything else is a compromise. Our staff are the most experienced in the industry and are all certified by Bosch. Our goal is to have every client, partner and delegate we work with, as an advocate for future events.Our products and services include:• Simultaneous Interpretation• Voting / Audience Response• Audio Visual Equipment• Conference Microphones• Dome Camera integration with Conference Microphones• Infra-red Multi channel Distribution (radiators and receivers)• Tour Guide SystemsWebsites:www.congressrental.nz

Top Event Management Companies in New-Zealand

Factors Contributing to Growth and Success:

The event management industry in New Zealand has been driven by a range of factors, including the government's focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, the growth of the tourism industry, and the increasing demand for experiential marketing. The government has launched several initiatives to promote innovation and entrepreneurship, such as the Innovation Partnership and the Callaghan Innovation Fund. These initiatives have encouraged businesses to invest in research and development, leading to the development of new products and services.

Additionally, the growth of the tourism industry has driven demand for event management services, as more tourists visit New Zealand for events such as festivals, conferences, and sports events. Furthermore, businesses are increasingly using events as a way to engage with consumers and create unique brand experiences.

Industry Growth and Comparison:

The event management industry in New Zealand has experienced steady growth over the past decade, with the number of event management companies increasing by 8% between 2012 and 2022. The industry's revenue has also grown steadily, with a 4.8% increase in 2022. However, the industry experienced a decline in revenue in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with revenue decreasing by 10.2%.

Key Trends:

Technological disruptions are playing a significant role in shaping the event management industry in New Zealand. The rise of digital technology has led to the development of new event management tools and platforms, such as event management software and virtual event platforms. These tools and platforms are more efficient and cost-effective, allowing event managers to plan and execute events more effectively.

Another trend that is emerging is the focus on sustainability and eco-friendliness. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of their environmental impact and are demanding that events operate in an environmentally responsible manner. Event managers are responding by incorporating sustainable materials and practices into their events.

Challenges:

The event management industry in New Zealand faces several challenges, including the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing competition, and changing consumer behavior. Additionally, there is a growing concern about supply chain disruptions and the availability of raw materials, which could impact the industry's ability to produce and execute events.

Future Outlook:

Despite these challenges, the event management industry in New Zealand is expected to continue its growth trajectory in the coming years. The government's focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, coupled with the growing demand for sustainable and experiential events, is expected to drive growth in the industry. Additionally, the industry is likely to benefit from the increasing focus on technology, such as event management software and virtual event platforms.

Conclusion:

The event management industry is a critical part of the New Zealand economy, providing employment opportunities and contributing to economic growth. The industry has experienced significant growth in recent years, driven by government initiatives, technological advancements, and changing consumer behavior. However, the industry also faces several challenges, including the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased competition. To stay competitive and relevant, event managers must embrace emerging trends, such as technology, sustainability, and experiential marketing. By doing so, the industry can continue to play a critical role in providing businesses with high-quality event management services, driving economic growth and social development in New Zealand.

In addition to the trends mentioned above, several other factors are likely to shape the event management industry's future in New Zealand. One such factor is the increasing importance of hybrid events. With the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, event managers must adapt their event planning and execution processes to account for both in-person and virtual attendees. Hybrid events, which combine both in-person and virtual elements, are likely to become increasingly popular in the future.

Another factor that could impact the industry's future is the growing importance of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). With more businesses using data analytics and AI to analyze consumer behavior, event managers must adapt their event planning and execution processes to account for these technologies. For example, event managers could use data analytics to better understand attendee preferences and behaviors, allowing them to create more personalized and effective event experiences.

In conclusion, the event management industry in New Zealand is expected to continue to grow and evolve in the coming years. The industry is driven by a range of factors, including government initiatives, technological advancements, and changing consumer behavior. While the industry faces several challenges, including the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased competition, event managers must embrace emerging trends such as hybrid events, data analytics, and sustainability. By doing so, the industry can continue to play a critical role in providing businesses with high-quality event management services, driving economic growth and social development in New Zealand.

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By Melissa Goh
Published on 25 May 2023