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Adam Stewart joins the Barques team

adam — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:08:01 +0000

Barques are pleased to announce their newest team member Adam Stewart who has joined us as a Web Designer. Originally from Nottingham, he joins us fresh faced and straight out of University here in Birmingham. Graduating with a Ba(Hons) in Media and Communication, where he specislised in web and digital media allowing him to work with clients from all different areas such as radio, education and even athletics with Birmingham based Birchfield Harriers.

In his free time he likes nothing more than to stick on some questionable music whilst getting ready to go out, or stay home and watch even more questionable films, such as a little known trilogy involving Zac Efron… the less said the better.

Even with his eclectic tastes Adam is warmly welcomed to the Barques team….

Barques Welcomes Another Jones To The Family

katherine — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:06:33 +0000

Congratulations to Vicki and Ed on the arrival of Jack Edward Jones, born on the 10th of April. This was a good day all round for Ed – his beloved West Brom promoted to the premiership and a little boy to top the day off!

Both mum, dad and baby are doing well and here in the office we cannot wait to meet the new arrival!

Baby Jack with big sister Holly watching out for him already!

Amanda Mease Joins Barques From Estates Gazette

katherine — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:39:13 +0000

Amanda Mease has joined Barques as Client Services Director. With over seven years experience in the publishing arena, Amanda joins the team from estatesgazette.com with bags of experience in the commercial property market. She has covered national, regional and online media in her time at EG and brings with her a huge knowledge of the media plus a wealth of experience in a number of regional markets, including London, Manchester and Birmingham to name but a few.

Outside of work, Amanda can be rather obsessed with her fitness regime, which includes a crazy British military fitness workout, long-distance running plus a few games of hockey here and there.

We are thrilled to have Amanda here and hope that her rather obsessive fitness regime rubs off on the rest of us!

The Heart of England Excellence in Tourism Awards 2009

katherine — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:03:32 +0000

Wish you had been there! Having been invited to this event for the first time I thoroughly enjoyed it. We were all there to celebrate the best of tourism in the region – yet how many of us in the business sector knew about these awards? Well here we go, raise a glass to those who have won and lets show our appreciation by visiting some of the establishments that some of us may not have heard of and lets continue to support those that we have.

Local Successes

Opus Restaurant – winner of Taste of the Heart sponsored by Gastro Card, in addition Staying Cool at the Rotunda, The Birmingham Hippodrome, ICC, NEC, the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and Birmingham Convention Bureau. Brockencote Hall Hotel won too and this is a new addition on the Gastro Card. Hidelow Cottages scooped two awards.

Outstanding contribution to Tourism went to Drayton Manor and the individual award to Ian Walden who retired from Black Country Living museum earlier this year after 34 years. He built the museum from scratch to an attraction that sees 260,000 visitors per year.

www.hidelow.co.uk

Jilly’s Impromptu Appearance On The Phil Upton Breakfast Show

katherine — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:40:02 +0000

When Jilly won the prize to visit the BBC West Midlands studios the last thing she expected was to do a live turn on the Phil Upton breakfast show! As she arrived on Monday morning to have a tour of the studios and sit in on the breakfast show, none other than our very own client Tim Hurdiss from Chord Deeley had called in live on air to discuss the economic downturn and how it has affected the West Midlands.

So naturally Jilly felt it was only right to add her perspective to the discussion and right at the end of the show, Jilly and Tim Andrews from Hollywood Monster had their chance to air their views on the situation. Jilly echoed Tim Hurdiss’ sentiments that while the recession has slowed down a number of developments and some schemes have come to a halt completely, there are still a lot of positives out there and schemes are progressing slowly but surely. Tim Andrews only confirmed this view by adding that Hollywood Monster have had their busiest month to date! So things are not quite as bad as they seem here in the West Midlands and we hope that you all share our optimism for the future.

Have a listen to Jilly on Monday’s breakfast show at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p004snx9/Phil_Upton__Breakfast_26_10_2009/

Anderson’s Bar and Grill Opening

dave — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:02:29 +0000

The entire Jewellery Quarter and business community were saddened when The Bucklemaker had to close its doors as it was a much loved hostelry, however we are thrilled to announce that the old Bucklemaker team are back as Anderson’s bar and grill.

The Bucklemaker’s former head chef Danny Anderson and front of house manager Simon Marsh could not stand to see this famous establishment go! So with Nick Crudgington’s verve the newly refurbished restaurant re-opened today (Monday 12th October) with a new menu to boot.

Anderson’s Bar and Grill
30 Mary Ann Street
St Pauls Square
Birmingham B3 1RL
0121 200 2515

Photos from the soft opening:

Welcome Back Vicki

katherine — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:03:36 +0000

From all the team here at Barques we would like to welcome back the new Mrs Vicki Jones after being away on maternity leave. Vicki has had an incredibly hectic few months with the arrival of baby Holly in November and getting married only a few weeks ago, and we are all thrilled to have her back in the office.

Up Front with Livery Place

sam — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:33:29 +0000

Barques created this front page ad for client Highcross as featured in the latest issue of Commercial Property Register. The design runs along side the current mailing campaign that focuses on ‘great location, without the cost’. The scheme, Livery Place, situated opposite Snow Hill Station in central Birmingham, is an intelligent grade A office space offering cutting edge connectivity, sustainability and energy efficiency whilst being flexible and cost effective.

The work forms part of our on-going marketing campaign for Livery Place based on the ethos ’smarter office thinking’.
This is one of two high profile schemes we are working on for Highcross.

www.liveryplace.com

Exploring Strange New Worlds… Well Okay, London!

dave — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:49:42 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I had an email from the people over at Sky Movies HD offering me the chance to go to the UK premiere of the new Star Trek movie in London. Playing into every stereotype of a web geek, i am of course a huge Trek fan (i would like to point out that i am just a fan, not a full blown uniform wearing Trekkie), so of course I leapt at the chance!

I arrived down in London’s Leicester Square on Monday mid-afternoon and watched some of the crowd build up. There was a small group of full blown uniform wearing trekkies at the front of one barrier, who had apparently been there since 10am! I gave the contact at Sky a call, and she handed me a VIP pass, and walked myself and a couple of other guests to the VIP enclosure, right next to the TV crews and opposite the press cameras! We had a great view as various celebs and stars of the movie arrived and chatted with the cameras. I seem to have managed to avoid getting my face into the background of the press shots, although i did spot my arm growing out of Simon Pegg’s head on one photo they showed on the Jonathan Ross Show last week!

After all the stars had gone in, we got to see the new movie, which was superb. Don’t want to give too much away, but if you want to know more, you can read a full review here.

A few photos from the premiere:

There is a load more photos from the Star Trek UK Premiere here.

Zachary Quinto

Jeremy Clarkson and Eric Bana

Zoe Saldana

Nick Frost

Trekkies

Manor Vets Get A New Website

dave — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:25:55 +0000

We recently under took the design of a new website for Manor Veterinary Centres. Established for 120 years, Manor Vets are an award winning veterinary group, with 42 staff across 5 surgeries around the West Midlands.

In addition to a complete re-design, Manor Vets also required a content management system allowing staff to access and update the website from any location, a system to allow customers to order repeat prescriptions and book appointments online, and a large pet information database.

www.manorvets.co.uk