A lovely picture of one of the LOLA Ambassadors on the job and ready to get stuck in at LSO St Lukes
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Monday, 29 November 2010
Friday, 26 November 2010
LOLA Promo Girls at The HAC
LOLA Promo Girls at the B2B Marketing Awards at The Honourable Artillery Club.
Monday, 22 November 2010
LOLA Promotional at Daniel Stores Opening
LOLA Promotional Staff members Patrick and Caitlin getting ready to hit the floor for the Daniel Stores Opening.
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
LOLA Staff working for the Moroccan Board of Tourism
Some of our lovely promotional staff were very pleased to be able to help out one of our favourite clients – Wedgewood for their job for the Moroccan Board of Tourism.
Here’s a few pics of the promo girls and promo guys in action
Monday, 1 November 2010
The Elton John AIDS Charity Ball 2010
The Elton John AIDS Foundation Winter Ball raised almost £590,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation last Saturday night and LOLA was there to help!
The LOLA Event Staffing and Promotional Staffing teams were very excited to be involved for the third year in a row with the The Elton John AIDS Foundation Winter Ball.
With Lily Allen sidelined and unable to perform, the man of the hour – Sir Elton himself stepped up to give a 45-minute set as part of the evening which involved a cocktail reception, dinner and auction in benefit of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Guests were treated to some of his hits and a couple of new tracks from his latest album “The Union” with Leon Russell which has debuted at Number 3 on the Billboard Album Chart.
For the past 3 years our team of wonderful hosts and hostesses, event staff and promotional staff have wined and dined some of the world’s biggest celeb names on what they all regard as the best event of the year. Beginning with a manic make up and costume session and ending with very excited event staff and guests getting a special show from Sir Elton. The event was another roaring success this year for a very worthy cause.
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LOLA Event Staff were involved in a good old fashioned Hawaiian fest at the TATE Modern the other night. The hostesses looked super glamorous in their gorgeous floral outfits and leis. Here we have two of our favourite girls Valdone and Sara looking beautiful once again. Another great night and a lot of fun!
Friday, 8 October 2010
LOLA Promotional Staff at Ralph Lauren
LOLA promo girls having fun and strutting it for the Ralph Lauren show
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Underground Superheroes - LOLA Event Staffing
Superheroes from LOLA Event Staffing were recently spotted mingling in the basement of a well know, iconic London building.
Why were these super heroes in the basement? Who are these amazing promotional staff? So many question, so few answers……
Friday, 24 September 2010
Tech Team Global Event
A couple of LOLA’s lovely event staffing hostesses Sara and Valdone adding some spice to the Tech Team Global stand.
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Friday, 17 September 2010
Monday, 16 August 2010
Farewell Harry Potter
Harry and the gang wind up the final filming for the franchise with a wet and wild party with the LOLA team
Farewell Harry Potter
Farewell Harry Potter
Friday, 13 August 2010
Dean's Birthday - Friday 13th
Today is Friday 13th and its the boss Dean Friday's birthday. So of course what better way to celebrate than by having a Friday 13th themed office day. He looks kinda creepy doesn't he!
Happy Birthday Dean!
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
LOLA Event Staff at the Goldwell Hair Awards
LOLA sent a team of our hospitality staff to the Marquee on the Chelsea Hospital Lawn last night for the Goldwell Hair Colour Awards.The evening kicked off with canapes and drinks on the lawn. There was no shortage of colour in the hair so I'm sure Mr. or Mrs Goldwell (whoever it is) would have been suitably impressed with the variety on show.
Following drinks on the lawn was a raunchy fashion show which lived up to the 'Naked' theme they had running for the night.
A lovely bunch of lads and lasses with 6 packs and long legs respectively kept everyone happy regardless of what tickles your fancy!
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Alex at the Sex & The City Premier
LOLA recently had the majority of our female and even some of our male staff fighting for spots at the Sex & The City Premier Launch Party in London.
The lucky few said it was a wild night and here we have 3 cheeky looking lasses on their way in being welcomed by LOLA Lad Alex K looking very professional and very hunky on the door!
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Event Staffing
“A friend of mine who works at one of the world’s (ex) leading investment banks gave me an interesting piece of advice some time ago - ‘Don’t over-analyse. The best understanding you can have is that of an average punter.’
I had been trying my best to get my head around the intricacies of the stock market (and in my case, China’s demand for natural resources). By that stage I’d read every Financial Review expert opinion over the last 6 months and I must say I was baffled that in many cases they were in direct contradiction to the opinions they’d shared six months prior.
For instance, it wasn’t so long ago that we were reading about China’s forecast double digit growth on a daily basis. The ‘experts’ predicted this would continue for as long as any of us could imagine. We should all jump on the commodities band wagon as China’s demand for the likes of iron ore was expected to expand exponentially until the cows came home.
Before we knew it, the bubble burst and the growth slowed; dramatically.
Having thought about it for some time, the only logical explanation I could find for the sudden seizure in demand was, in one word - sentiment.
I have concluded that market sentiment, driven by the average punter is the most powerful force regulating demand and supply throughout the world. Hence, I have rationalized to stop over analyzing and think more like the average punter. This is a mindset that comes easily, being an average punter.
So I have applied this to my industry. The Events and Promotional world has suffered greatly during this global financial crisis. Companies have stopped launching new products, in fact they have stopped making new products. Parties (and in particular Christmas parties) are a thing of the past and corporate networking nights seem to be as rare as hen’s teeth.
Special event catering companies are going into administration at an extraordinary rate and of course (as we all know) the semi-nationalised banks in the UK are not making life any easier for start-ups and small businesses.
So in an effort to counter the doom and gloom I’d like to start the ball rolling with some much needed positive sentiment:
My company is a young business of 18 months. Although 2008 was a tough year, we survived and we did quite well.
We took on a few fantastic big name clients, and many helpful smaller clients. We were profitable and although we missed our targets by a small margin we were buoyed by the strong reaction to our brand and the relative success of our online strategies. So as an average punter, I’m thinking ‘things don’t look that bad.’
Having read all the expert opinions we expected the worst for January 2009. However, for us, they were wrong. LOLA Event and Promotional Staffing turned over more than 90% more business in January 2009 than January 2008. We have grown our client list significantly (even in the last six weeks) and we have just expanded our business into Manchester in response to a strong demand from the north of the UK.
I believe that soon companies will again start launching new products, booking event staff for parties and networking like they used to. And as a result, I believe my business will continue to grow at a steady rate and I will continue to send out event staff as quickly as I can get them through the door.
My business is in providing attractive, skilled and well presented people for events, whether they be hospitality staff or hosts and hostesses. I intend to make 2009 a great year for event staffing and I urge all of my peers to take a similar attitude towards their businesses.
A wave of positive sentiment from average punters is sure to eclipse the Armageddon forecast by the ‘experts’ that monopolise our televison sets.”
Duncan Mitchell - LOLA Staffing
I had been trying my best to get my head around the intricacies of the stock market (and in my case, China’s demand for natural resources). By that stage I’d read every Financial Review expert opinion over the last 6 months and I must say I was baffled that in many cases they were in direct contradiction to the opinions they’d shared six months prior.
For instance, it wasn’t so long ago that we were reading about China’s forecast double digit growth on a daily basis. The ‘experts’ predicted this would continue for as long as any of us could imagine. We should all jump on the commodities band wagon as China’s demand for the likes of iron ore was expected to expand exponentially until the cows came home.
Before we knew it, the bubble burst and the growth slowed; dramatically.
Having thought about it for some time, the only logical explanation I could find for the sudden seizure in demand was, in one word - sentiment.
I have concluded that market sentiment, driven by the average punter is the most powerful force regulating demand and supply throughout the world. Hence, I have rationalized to stop over analyzing and think more like the average punter. This is a mindset that comes easily, being an average punter.
So I have applied this to my industry. The Events and Promotional world has suffered greatly during this global financial crisis. Companies have stopped launching new products, in fact they have stopped making new products. Parties (and in particular Christmas parties) are a thing of the past and corporate networking nights seem to be as rare as hen’s teeth.
Special event catering companies are going into administration at an extraordinary rate and of course (as we all know) the semi-nationalised banks in the UK are not making life any easier for start-ups and small businesses.
So in an effort to counter the doom and gloom I’d like to start the ball rolling with some much needed positive sentiment:
My company is a young business of 18 months. Although 2008 was a tough year, we survived and we did quite well.
We took on a few fantastic big name clients, and many helpful smaller clients. We were profitable and although we missed our targets by a small margin we were buoyed by the strong reaction to our brand and the relative success of our online strategies. So as an average punter, I’m thinking ‘things don’t look that bad.’
Having read all the expert opinions we expected the worst for January 2009. However, for us, they were wrong. LOLA Event and Promotional Staffing turned over more than 90% more business in January 2009 than January 2008. We have grown our client list significantly (even in the last six weeks) and we have just expanded our business into Manchester in response to a strong demand from the north of the UK.
I believe that soon companies will again start launching new products, booking event staff for parties and networking like they used to. And as a result, I believe my business will continue to grow at a steady rate and I will continue to send out event staff as quickly as I can get them through the door.
My business is in providing attractive, skilled and well presented people for events, whether they be hospitality staff or hosts and hostesses. I intend to make 2009 a great year for event staffing and I urge all of my peers to take a similar attitude towards their businesses.
A wave of positive sentiment from average punters is sure to eclipse the Armageddon forecast by the ‘experts’ that monopolise our televison sets.”
Duncan Mitchell - LOLA Staffing
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