The UK holds a national Learning at Work Day each May and every year BI WORLDWIDE takes part by dedicating a week to increasing associates’ knowledge and allowing them to learn more about the areas of the business, their colleagues and themselves.

Over a hundred people gathered at the Bvlgari Hotel in London for our annual Partners in Success event. This unique event is where we recognise excellence among our community of event partners. As a marketer, this was my first experience of Partners in Success, and I attended under the guise of ‘social media manager’ for the night, in charge of tweeting the happenings of the evening, live from the event.

We're delighted to be able to confirm that for a second consecutive year, our filed accounts confirm a year of positive results. Improvements were made across all areas of the business – employee engagement programmes, sales incentives, and events, which have all played their part in achieving this excellent result!

We were in a meeting the other day, and one of the team just happened to mention she was "stunned" by a Christmas tree in the lobby of a hotel she had visited. And that got us thinking …

2012 is coming to a close and we thought it was worth looking onward to 2013 now we’re sure the world isn’t ending this year, which we’re all very grateful of I’m sure! So here goes, our look at what’s going on here at BI WORLDWIDE and view of destinations, aviation, and the whole industry in general.

We are very excited to annouce that our ability to service the global events, employee engagement and incentive market is strengthened with the addition of BI WORLDWIDE Latin America to our network of regional headquarters.

Last weekend four members of the BI WORLDWIDE events team were transformed into boules players for the grand finale of a boules competition in Monte Carlo where events companies battled their boules off to win the big prize!

We’re pleased to announce that for a second year running, we have closed our financial year with pre-audited results showing business improvement. Key performance indicators showed improvement in all major operating areas – events, sales incentives and employee engagement programmes.

We like to keep you in the loop when important or exciting things happen within the UK offices at BI WORLDWIDE, and this month we are focussing on the Events Department. In recent months they’ve increased their head count by five, to meet the needs of the ever growing list of projects we are managing.

As part of the investment into our global reach and cababilites, BI WORLDWIDE announced Andrew McMeekin as the Managing Director of its Australia offices. McMeekin comes to BI WORLDWIDE with over 25 years in marketing and communications expertise from both advertising agencies and corporate businesses.