SBS Winners Event – 30/03/12

March 2012 was an incredible month for the owners of Xtreme Vortex who not only won the TIPE Operator of the Year award, but were also recognised by Dragons Den star Theo Paphitis as one of his Small Business Sunday (#SBS) winners. It was a real honour to be picked by Theo back in May 2011, but it was such an amazing opportunity to meet Theo in person, along with other SBS winners at the first event of its kind.

Small Business Sunday, shortened to the hashtag #SBS on Twitter, was created by Theo Paphitis in October 2010. Theo is best known for his star role in TV’s Dragons Den. He is the chairman of Ryman Stationary plus Boux Avenue and joint owner of Red Letter Days.

Theo Paphitis, along with the support of Rymans the Stationers hosted the event at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham for all SBS winners. This was a fantastic opportunity to meet other SBS winners along with an inspirational talk from Theo and Kypros Kyprianou, the Chief Exec of Ryman. Many people recognise Theo from his time on Dragons Den, but the multi-million pound dragon has built up his empire of businesses from scratch. Theo is truly inspirational and uses his own personal time to support and help small businesses through SBS. He has a genuine passion for helping small businesses and he still clearly remembers that point when you are trying to grow a business, working long hours, grafting hard and wondering will it all pay off?

Xtreme Vortex are so proud of this opportunity and it has only fuelled our enthusiasm for providing the best activities and service to the events industry. Following the event, a few sleepless nights have occurred where the brains of owners Andy and Donna were fuelled with inspiration and motivation for exciting new projects for Xtreme Vortex. Xtreme Vortex cannot thank Theo Paphitis and his team enough for such an amazing event!

Press Coverage

We were so excited about meeting Theo Paphitis we released press releases to various papers and magazines. We have appeared in the Bexley Times and most recently in the Newsshopper. Check out the Newsshopper website for coverage of this story.

March 2012 has been a very busy month so far. We attended International Confex and International Outdoor Event Expo (IOEX) at London’s Excel for three days. This was a fun packed three days for us to meet so many people in the event industry. Attending International Confex 2012 gave us the opportunity to introduce people to our new activities which we have introduced for 2012 such as our Under Pressure Game and Giant Scalextric Racing Track. It was a great opportunity to talk to our current clients and also meet new clients to discuss their requirements for their events and answer any questions they had. The response from International Confex has certainly kept us busy over the last couple of weeks!

We would like to thank Andi B Illustration for all of the artwork designs for our trade show which certainly drew in the crowds!

Back in February 2012 Xtreme Vortex attended The Event Production Show at London Olympia. You may be wondering why it has taken so long to write this entry about the show considering it was back in February but the simple reason is we have been so busy since! Attending the Event Production show gave us the opportunity to meet new and existing clients for an informal chat about their activity needs and requirements. It was a great opportunity to be able to showcase the wonderful activities we have available to hire. We also met The Stig from BBC’s Top Gear at the Event Production Show who was also very interested in our activities, he even stopped to take the time to read our brochure! As you can see The Stig was very interested in the activities we have to offer, maybe we will be working with him in the future?

We would like to thank Andi B Illustration for all of the artwork designs for our trade show which certainly drew in the crowds!

Xtreme Vortex hire activities and inflatables for events including mobile climbing wall, laser tag, human table football, bouncy volleyball, bungee run, gladiator joust, bouncy basketball, bungee football, giant scalextric racing, under pressure skill game, air hockey, buzz wire, team building games and many more. Xtreme Vortex specialise in indoor activity hire and outdoor activity hire.

For all details on activity hire, visit www.xtremevortex.co.uk.

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