NEC Group news

Private equity giant Blackstone has acquired UK-based live events venue operator National Exhibition Centre Group from LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group. ... More

Aviva Premiership club Wasps has appointed events industry specialist Stuart Cain as its new commercial director to help increase usage of the Ricoh Arena’s event ... More

Birmingham has beaten Liverpool in a two-horse race to be named the preferred candidate city for the UK’s bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games. ... More

Brendan Foster, the former Commonwealth 10,000m champion, has joined the team trying to bring the 2022 Commonwealth Games to Birmingham. Foster is the founder of ... More

The NEC Group, which operates and owns the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), is to be sold by Birmingham City Council (BCC). BCC is seeking offers ... More

A major £20.6m renovation of the National Indoor Arena (NIA) in Birmingham is set to deliver improved facilities and a greater emphasis on the pre- ... More

Birmingham City Council (BCC) leader Mike Whitby has announced plans for undertake a £20.6m refurbishment of the facilities at the National Indoor Arena (NIA). Whitby ... More

Plans for a new casino as part of a wider leisure and entertainment complex to be developed on the outskirts of Birmingham have been handed ... More

A new leisure and entertainment complex is to be developed on the outskirts of Birmingham under new plans unveiled by Genting Casinos UK and the ... More

Broadway Malyan has been appointed lead a design team that will be drawing up plans for a revamp of Birmingham's National Indoor Arena (NIA). An ... More

Global Spectrum Europe, the newly-launched joint venture between Birmingham’s NEC Group and Philadelphia’s Global Spectrum, has won its first management contract – the new Spaladium ... More

The NEC Group, which manages the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), has announced the name of its proposed £90m leisure and entertainment complex. The Resorts World ... More

The NEC (National Exhibition Centre) Arena in Birmingham is to have a new look and name after receiving a £28m funding package from electronics company ... More

The NEC Group, which runs Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre, has announced it will partner with Genting Stanley (Solihull) Ltd (GSSL) on the proposed addition of ... More

The NEC Group has appointed a new managing director of the National Indoor Arena and the National Exhibition Centre Arena. Phil Mead – the current ... More

The NEC Group, the exhibition and events venues operator, has appointed Martin Angle as its new chair. Angle, who has previously worked in senior board ... More

A new Ramada Encore hotel worth an estimated £20m is to be added to the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) site in Birmingham following the announcement ... More

The NEC Group – operator of five UK exhibition and event venues – has announced that Paul Thandi is to become its new chief executive ... More

Birmingham City Council has announced its support for a bid proposed by the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) to run Britain’s first regional supercasino in the ... More

Birmingham has unveiled its bid to win the UK’s first supercasino licence with the news that the NEC Group has chosen Las Vegas-based casino operator ... More