Thistle Hotels are delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Gallagher as General Manager of Thistle Glasgow. Mark joins Thistle Glasgow just as the Hotel is heading into its busiest period of the year and he is looking forward to the challenge of a demanding banqueting and festive season. With many years at the award winning City Inn group and experience of large scale banqueting at the Macdonald Inchyra Grange beforehand, Mark brings an abundance of experience to his role and is looking forward to a busy but successful season ahead. Mark’s ethos and objective is simply to offer a quality product at great value for money across all areas of the hotel, whether you visit the hotel for a large scale Conference or Banquet or you are simply treating your loved one to relaxing city break or romantic meal for two in the restaurant.

 

Also newly appointed is Jeanette Ward who joins the sales team in the newly designed role of Director of Sales. Jeanette brings a wealth of market knowledge to the team after many years working for Holiday Inn, Macdonald Hotels and more recently the Five Star Hilton Glasgow. Jeanette is looking forward to this new role where the emphasis will be on development of the existing sales team alongside enhancing existing relationships and driving new business for the hotel. Mark Gallagher comments “we are delighted Jeanette has joined Thistle Glasgow and she will play an integral part in seeing the hotel reach its full potential through many opportunities in the Glasgow and Scottish market place”.

 

Joe Queen, one of Scotland’s greatest food ambassadors joined Thistle Hotels as executive chef – an appointment that see’s Thistle’s food ambitions realised. Former President of the Federation of Chefs Scotland, Joe brings the Annual Chefs conference and Gala Dinner to Thistle Glasgow where we will host 550 top chefs from Scotland and around the world this November. This is indeed a busy week, which also see’s Joe’s skills utilised as one of only three top Chefs chosen to cook for the Gordon Ramsay Dinner in aid of Scottish Spina Bifida before heading to the BBC Good Food Show where he will show of his culinary skills in the demonstration kitchen. Joe is a keen Supporter of the World Junior Culinary Grand Prix and a key team member of many culinary competitions including the renowned Future Chef programme.  His philosophy is incredibly straight forward – food should taste just as fantastic as it looks; to create simple dishes with complete confidence and being true to the natural characteristics of ingredients in the finished dish.  One of Joe’s most notable achievements in his highly accomplished career has been cooking for President Gerald Ford in 1986 in Colorado where he was working at The Lodge at Vail. 

 

The awards, now in its sixth year, recognise the crème de la crème of the hospitality industry.  Hosted by the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, Alex Fergusson MSP, the Awards were held at The Crowne Plaza Glasgow with over 360 of Scotland’s elite hoteliers in attendance. 

 

For the third year running, Crowne Plaza Glasgow was crowned winners of the coveted ‘Conference Hotel of the Year’ award which not only recognised its excellence for conference and banqueting but which also acknowledges the support and excellent relationship the hotel has built over the years with the neighbouring SECC.

 

Dominic McVey, General Manager of the Crowne Plaza Glasgow was also honoured for the second consecutive year with the Business Excellence Award for Best Manager – a hotly contested category that is given in acknowledgment of ‘real business results, class leading performance and promise’. 

 

Dominic, who has been with the hotel for almost six years, was delighted with the awards and the recognition the hotel has received, saying: “The hotel has continually shown a dedication to its customers and with our thorough guest satisfactory systems in place, we are able to recognise the positive impact and improvement that this has had on our product and service.

 

“2008 was a difficult year for the hospitality industry and although demand wasn’t as high as we had hoped, we still had a relatively successful year despite the economic conditions.”

 

Recognising the award is a tribute to his team, Dominic added: “The Crowne Plaza Glasgow has so much to offer its leisure and business guests and these awards are testament to the high standards and levels of service we provide within the hospitality market.”

 

With customer service at the heart of the hotel’s ethos and objectives, they were delighted that Allan McDougall was credited for his hard work and dedication to the job by scooping the Concierge 'Extra Mile' Awards 2009 bringing the total to three awards for the hotel on the night.

Stirling-based Marvelus Productions are gearing up for a busy festive period.

 

Whether your need is simply for a reliable, no nonsense a-v provider, offering the keenest prices, allied to exemplary standards of customer care or the planning and delivery of an important annual event, Marvelus would be delighted to help.

                                                      

Marvelus have just produced the prestigious ‘Elite Business Awards’ for First Press and Business Insider Magazine, at Glasgow’s Radisson Hotel, to critical acclaim. The event for 300 of Scotland’s top business leaders and hosted by STV’s Stephen Jardine, featured Former ‘Number 10 Communications Supremo’, Alastair Campbell, as guest speaker.

 

The versatility and experience of Marvelus allows them to transfer our skills outdoors, as demonstrated by our work with the Royal Yacht Britannia. The Marvelus team have worked closely with Diane McRae , Senior Event Manager and her team to produce the prestigious ‘Beating The Retreat’ event, with the Band of the Royal Marines, several times recently.

 

Christmas sees an intense period of activity for Marvelus and we are helping a wide range of local authorities make a dazzling spectacle at more than two dozen Christmas Lights Switch On’s. If you would like some help with yours, please call Sales and Marketing Manager, Dougie Macgowan, on 0845-869 6152 or 07751-675177.

 

Christmas Parties are also one of the company’s specialisms , a field in which the business has more than 25 years experience. This year Marvelus will be ensuring that over 100 of their client’s events get in the swing, for the festive period. If you haven’t organised yours yet, there’s still time.

 

Marvelus Productions are a young, independent events company, based in Stirling, just off the M9 and well placed to service business throughout Scotland and the UK.  For all of your events needs, indoors or outdoors, please contact Dougie Macgowan now at Dougie@marvelus.co.uk or call 0845-869 6152 or visit www.marvelus.co.uk