London (June 12th) – David Roberts, who has 18-years experience working across a range of international b2b and b2c events, has joined Clarion’s gaming team as Event Director. David, whose previous job was as Industry Group Manager, for the Dubai World Trade Centre, based in the United Arab Emirates, will work across Clarion’s gaming brands, reporting to Portfolio Director Kate Chambers.

London (June 11th) – The ‘Think Big’ marketing campaign in support of ICE Totally Gaming 2013, has been short listed in the flagship Association of Exhibition Organisers’ (AEO) Excellence Awards. The AEO Awards represent the best that the events industry has to offer, showcasing the achievements within the sector over the past 12 months.

Clarion Events, organisers of London’s International Gaming Expo, has pledged to continue its hosting of world regulators following highly positive feedback from exhibitors. The 2010 gaming spectacular hosted 100 regulators and government officials who travelled to Earls Court from a total of 29 nations stretching from Sweden to Slovenia, Portugal to the Philippines, Montenegro to Malta and France to Finland.

The importance of keeping the annual International Gaming Expo in London has been underlined following the publication of independent research conducted through a sample of visitors attending the 2010 IGE in January. The executive summary released by Geoffrey Dixon, principal of research agency Vivid Interface – members of the Market Research Society of Great Britain – states:

Marketing professional Matthew Appleby has been appointed to the MarComms team working on IGE, the most international b2b gaming exhibition on the world stage. Matthew, who holds an Honours Degree in Business with Marketing, will be responsible for co-ordinating the international marketing and communications effort which in January 2010 brought 18,000 buyers from 120 sovereign states to London’s Earls Court Exhibition Centre.

The remote gaming sector of London’s International Gaming Expo, ICEi is on course to break all previous records with no fewer than 44 companies from 20 jurisdictions now confirmed to make their show debut across 26/27/28 January. The newcomers, occupying over 885 square metres (9,523sq.ft) of Earls Court floor space, join an unrivalled list of blue chip e-gaming names, taking the latest ICEi roster to 101 exhibitors, past the all-time high watermark of 99 set in 2009.

London’s International Gaming Expo (IGE) is set to remain the official and exclusively endorsed exhibition of the European Casino Association (ECA) until at least 2012, following the agreement of an extension to the existing contract between the ECA and IGE organisers, Clarion Gaming. The deal – which includes a continuation of the ECA’s prestigious International Casino Conference (ICC) held at Earls Court on the eve of IGE...

Clarion Gaming, the organisers of the European iGaming Congress, have announced they are to host a series of brainstorming sessions on hot markets and key areas of industry development at EiG, 15-17th September in Copenhagen. hey will be free to attend for all delegates – both expo hall only and full conference – and will follow a relaxed Q&A format, moderated by Clarion Gaming’s Head of Conferences, Mark Walker.

Clarion Gaming, which launched The Betting Show in 2003, has announced that the flagship event for the UK, Irish and European bookmaking industry is to relocate from its traditional October slot at Birmingham’s NEC to take residence at London’s Earls Court Exhibition Centre across 26/27/28 January. The show will form part of the 2010 International Gaming Expo...

Macau - G2E Asia 2009 successfully concluded last week in Macau, with a total of 135 companies from 20 regions exhibiting and over 4,300 industry professionals attending the annual event for the Asian gaming industry. Most of the attendees were gaming professionals from Macau who made up nearly 40 percent of the total attendance.

Clarion Events has announced a strategic restructuring of its Gaming Division which involves the closure of its U.S. office in St Charles with the relocation of activities to London and the appointment of former ATE Marketing & Commercial Director Julian Graves to the newly created post of Managing Director responsible for exhibitions. Julian, whose association with IGE/ICEi/ATEI and The Betting Show dates back to 2000...

Organisers of The Betting Show, Clarion Gaming, have confirmed that they will now be working directly with the Association of British Bookmaker (ABB) and The Independent Bookmakers Association (IBA) to deliver a new look learning and networking platform. Taking place on the 14 and 15 October 2009, this year’s show will feature a variety of exhibitors...