PM Amusements Expands its Business Through Acquisition of Distinctive Party Design

Port Chester, NY (PRWEB) October 11, 2004

PM Amusements, a full-service event planning company, today announced it has acquired Distinctive Party Design, formerly known as Westchester Party Design. The acquisition supports PM Amusement?s strategy to be the area's largest one-stop event planner with the most diverse and convenient suite of event capabilities for corporate and private events.

Established in 1980, PM Amusements provides event/theme planning, amusement rental, and entertainment throughout the tri-state area and beyond. Distinctive Party Design?s offerings include floral design, thematic event services, and customized décor including props, centerpieces, draping, lighting and signage. The combined team of on-site floral/art designers and event planning staff offer full event and conference planning expertise for catering facilities, corporations, event planners, country clubs, and hotels. Such corporate events comprise 75% of revenues, with the remaining 25% consisting of social events, such as bar mitzvahs and weddings.

"Through our acquisition of Distinctive Party Design, we will expand upon our proven success in the event planning arena by extending our capabilities to include floral and décor services,? said Mark Damiano, President, PM Amusements, who led the transaction. ?The acquisition constitutes a logical, strategic extension of our capabilities and we look forward to delivering the best event planning solutions available in this area.?

?More than ever, our clients want one-stop shopping and find it difficult working with several vendors when planning an event,? added Richard Randall, Creative Director/Event Planning Design. ?Joining forces with such a well-established company as PM Amusements will allow us to strengthen our respective portfolios and positions both entities for significant market growth.?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

PM Amusement?s 20,000 square foot facility, which houses everything from air bounce rides to high-tech surfing simulators, is currently being renovated to accommodate Distinctive Party Design. The new on-site design studio and showroom featuring separate themed areas (i.e., nautical, western) boasts an extensive array of décor packages, custom thematic artwork, entertainment options, floral and design creations.

Distinctive Party Design and PM Amusements have partnered on corporate and private events for several years. Their first collaborations under this new arrangement involved event management services for Westchester Country Club?s 75th anniversary gala and Stew Leonard?s company outing.

PM Amusements and Distinctive Party Design are located at 36 Bush Avenue, Port Chester, NY. For additional information, call (914) 937-1188 or visit http://www.pmamusements.com.

About PM Amusements

?We supply the fun and then some? has been PM Amusement?s credo since the Company?s inception in 1980. PM Amusements is the area?s leading full-service event planning company dedicated to helping clients create the ultimate event through a solution-oriented approach. Headquartered in Port Chester NY, the Company provides a wide range of event planning services for full-scale conference, corporate meeting, wedding, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, and gala celebrations. Event solutions include arts & crafts, carnival games, carnival rides and attractions, casino parties, catering, decorating, entertainers, field games, game shows, inflatable rides, interactive games, music, photo fun, prizes, props, simulators & hi-tech, games, snack foods, sport & arcade games, tents, tables & chairs. The Company?s wide range of event solutions have been implemented for such prominent organizations as Stew Leonards, Master Card International, Sony Electronics, Clairol, Bed Bath and Beyond, Fourth Federal Savings, and Fleet and local hotels and catering facilities.

About Distinctive Party Design

Distinctive Party Design, formerly known as Westchester Party Design, provides floral and design services for private and corporate events. Established in 1986, the company offers floral design, thematic event services, and customized décor including props, centerpieces, draping, lighting and signage. Staffed with in-house floral and art designers, Distinctive Party Design has produced some of the most innovative event solutions for Fortune 500, non-profits, smaller companies, and families alike. Representative clients include Bear Stearns Inc., PepsiCo, Kraft General Foods, Sony, Trump?s Castle Hotel & Casino, Hilton Hotels, Bloomingdale?s, Metropolitan Life, and Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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Brand Learning continues to build its business despite the global recession and is growing 30% year on year on track for a turnover of ?15 million. It has secured 25 new clients over the last year alone including Kellogg?s, Bacardi, Paypal and Snapfish. Over 50% of Brand Learning?s business is now sourced outside the UK and it operates in over 56 countries. Earlier in the year Brand Learning beat 1,000 companies to the accolade of ?Best Company 2011? in The Sunday Times Best Small Companies Awards.

Joining the business are:

???? Karen Licurse ? an American joins from global management consultants A.T. Kearney. Earlier in her career she worked in the USA at Merrill Lynch as vice president, marketing and communications, global markets and investment banking and JPMorgan Chase Bank as vice president, marketing, retail financial services.

????Allisyn James ? previously held global commercial and innovation roles in GSK and Cadbury Schweppes, and buyer and product manager roles at Safeway. Most recently she has been specialising in brand strategy and innovation excellence consultancy.

????Nilufar Scharipova ? an Uzbekistan national joins from P&G where she worked across several categories including fabric care, home care, hair care, styling & grooming. Her most recent role was as associate marketing director/multi operations team leader for Caucasus and Central Asian Republics.

????Emma Foulds ? joins from P&G with experience across many of the UK?s largest beauty brands including Max Factor, Olay, Pantene, Head and Shoulders, Gillette and Clairol. Her most recent role was as brand manager for beauty and grooming, brand operations UK/Eire.

????Jonathan Ganley ? joins from Virgin Atlantic where he was senior product manager for Upper Class. His career includes marketing roles at The Walt Disney Company, Arcadia Group (Topman), British Airways and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

????Sarah Williamson ? joins from GSK having held roles including group brand manager Ribena and senior brand manager Ribena and Group BM Horlicks. Earlier she worked at Cadbury Trebor Bassett.

????Aruba Rafique ? a Pakistani national who joins from Dabur (West Asia), an Indian home-grown FMCG manufacturer, India?s fourth largest, where she was Head of Marketing. Previous experience includes brand manager roles at Reckitt Benckiser (Pakistan) and Novartis (Pakistan) and project experience with Procter & Gamble and Citibank.

????Sebastien Thomas ? a French national who has strong drinks credentials built via brand manager roles for global brands belonging to Chivas Brothers and Pernod Ricard UK. He began his career with L?Or?al in the Luxury Product Division in France.

????Adam Tomlinson ? Joins from Zenithoptimedia Group where he was a senior communications and digital planner across the P&G and Whitbread (Costa Coffee and Premier Inn) businesses.

Andy Bird, co-founder and joint managing director of Brand Learning, comments: ?Brand Learning has enjoyed an average annual growth of 25% since we set it up ten years ago. A key factor in our success has been the high calibre of the people who work at Brand Learning and who use their diverse talents and a shared passion for capability-building to such great effect.

?Our new team members bring with them a host of key skills in marketing and consultancy, both in national and international roles. As we grow our global footprint we will continue to look for outstanding individuals who can help us meet the needs of our global clients.?

Brand Learning?s passion is to transform the marketing capabilities and commercial performance of people, teams and organisations across the world.

For further information, contact:

Jo Sensini

Velvet PR

Tel: 0208 996 1800/07710 316759

Email: Jo(at)velvetpr(dot)biz

Background Information ? Brand Learning (http://www.brandlearning.com)

Brand Learning is the leading international specialist consultancy in marketing capability development. The company is privately owned. Its co-founders and joint MDs are Andy Bird and Mhairi McEwan ? ex Unilever and Pepsi-Co VP marketing executives, who set the business up in 2000 and who jointly won the ?Best Leader? 2011 in The Sunday Times Top 100 Small Companies Awards.

Brand Learning is a dynamic consultancy carving out a unique presence in the growing discipline of marketing capability development. Brand Learning works with the world?s leading companies to help add rigour to their marketing skills in order to drive better effectiveness and cut-through of this major corporate investment.

Brand Learning is a fast growing business. It is actively recruiting talented individuals and has over 50 multinational corporations on its client list including Unilever, Shell, Diageo, Kellogg, Astra Zeneca, PepsiCo and Philips. Brand Learning worked on client projects in over 56 countries last year alone.

Brand Learning has picked up a host of accolades in recent times including securing the top slot in the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies 2011 and a top 5 place in the past 3 years. In 2008 Brand Learning won Marketing?s greatest prize - the Marketing Society?s Grand Prix across all categories for its work with client AkzoNobel (formerly ICI) and the 2009 Marketing Excellence Award for Marketing Capabilities with client Shell.

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