Stageco

Stageco Group
Staging company
Industry live music, sports, corporate events, public celebrations
Founded 1985 (1985)
Founder Hedwig De Meyer
Headquarters Tildonk, Belgium
Number of locations
 Belgium, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, United States
Area served
 Europe, UK, United States, Australia, Middle East, South Africa
Key people
 Hedwig De Meyer
Products custom stages, temporary buildings, festival stages, sporting structures, spot & delay towers, PA & video supports, turntables, lifts & hydraulic platforms, scaffolding structures, roof structures
Services structural calculations, design, build & installation
Number of employees
 170
Website www.stageco.com

Stageco is an award winning[1] international staging, event and structures engineering company.

The company has nine offices situated across the globe where they design and custom build concert stages[2] and festival stages,[3] corporate and sporting structures[4] and temporary buildings[5] for every kind of event as well as supplying PA structures, sport and delay towers, event scaffolding, roof structures, hydraulic lifts and platforms and grandstand structures.[6] They have built stages for some of the top grossing tours.[7] 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of Stageco.

With headquarters in Belgium, Stageco also have offices in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, UK and USA. The Stageco Group comprises around 170 staff including in-house designers, engineers, project managers and onsite crew.

Company Profile

Stageco designs and builds custom-made as well as standardized concert stages and temporary structures for all kind of events. The latest examples of their work include touring stages for Coldplay, Muse and the U2 360 Tour.[8] In 2010 Stageco created the double configuration stage at Download for AC/DC and bespoke temporary event structure The Drum[9][10] for the Middle East Gas celebrations organised by WRG for the 77 Mta Task Force. The company also provide stages for a variety of festivals including 11 stages for Lowlands Festival[11] and a wide variety of high end fashion shows, including French designer Sonia Rykiel.[12]

Company history

Stageco was officially founded[13] by Hedwig De Meyer in Belgium in 1985 and is now one of the most prominent international staging companies in the world, winning Total Productions Best Staging Company[14] for five consecutive years. However the first Stageco stage was actually built for the renowned Rock Werchter Festival in 1977. By the mid eighties Stageco were touring with Genesis and Pink Floyd, whilst refining the tower systems and roofs. In 1992 for Genesis’ We Can’t Dance tour the staging company worked directly with an architect to create a custom built stage. 1992 was the same year that Stageco US was incorporated, after touring in the states with Guns N Roses and Metallica. Over the following years, new offices were opened in the Netherlands, Germany and France.

Recent Work

2012

2011

2010

Awards

Stageco was among seven winners in the Plasa innovation award[15] for the companies new The Arena Lift[16] Stageco won Favourite Staging Company in the 2012 TPi Awards.

References

  1. ↑ "Stageco win favourite staging company at TPi Awards 2011". eventindustrynews. 7 February 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Total Production International Magazine: Muse Resistance Tour". October 2010.
  3. ↑ "Event Industry News: Stageco Go Above and Beyond at V Festival". 5 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "Lighting & Sound International: Stageco Supports Winter Olympics". 15 February 2010.
  5. ↑ "Digital Production Middle East: Stageco Builds 'The Drum'". 19 December 2010.
  6. ↑ "Stageco website: Products".
  7. ↑ "Top Grossing Tours 2010". Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  8. ↑ U2 360 Tour http://www.etnow.com/news/2009/7/stageco-delivers-360-and-deg-stage-for-u2
  9. ↑ The Drum http://www.etnow.com/news/2010/12/stageco-build-royal-drum-in-middle-east
  10. ↑ Offord, John (December 13, 2010). "Stageco Builds Royal Drum". ET Now. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  11. ↑ "Lowlands Festival Success for Stageco Netherlands". Total Production Magazine. 2 September 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  12. ↑ Evans, Jim (7 December 2009). "Stageco Builds Replica Paris". Lighting and Sound International. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  13. ↑ "Stageco chronicle 'From Belgium with Love'". Total Production. October 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  14. ↑ "Total Production International Awards". Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  15. ↑ "Events Guru: Stageco's Arena Lift Wins Plasa Innovation Award". Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  16. ↑ "Event Industry News: Stageco Launches Arena Lift". Retrieved April 2012.

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