The Cavendish Group

During 2011, we are celebrating 30 years of successful event management and hospitality throughout the world

The Cavendish Group is the one of the UK’s leading corporate hospitality and event management companies providing these services to companies around the world.

With over 30 years’ experience, Cavendish has built up an unrivalled reputation for quality, reliability and integrity in providing event management services to businesses and rights holders of major events. . You can rest assured that your events will be properly planned and professionally managed.

There is no substitute for experience.....

Creating a truly memorable event is about dotting "i’s" and crossing "t’s". This way everything runs smoothly and ensures the experience matches your corporate goals. Our extensive industry knowledge, events expertise and record of success ensures that everything runs exactly as it should.

The Group consists of six complementary divisions, combining to provide a range of corporate event services, from ‘one-off’ corporate functions to access to a ‘must see’ new show or sporting event’.

Cavendish Sport and Entertainment

Hospitality packages to all the major sporting sporting events including Wimbledon and Twickenham (England Rugby) plus concerts at the O2 Arena, Wembley and the Royal Albert Hall.

Cavendish Sport and Entertainment

Hospitality in Partnership

The global events division of Cavendish creates, manages and markets major event hospitality programmes such as the Rugby World Cup, Cricket World Cup and the Tutankhamun Exhibition.

Hospitality in Partnership

Cavendish Sponsorship

Cavendish Sponsorship provides hospitality event management support services to sponsors of major sporting and showbusiness occasions.

Cavendish Sponsorship

Cavendish Special Event Services

Incentives at home and overseas, sporting events, activity days, corporate golf days, seminars, dinners ........

Cavendish Special Event Services

Cavendish Travel Services

Full hospitality services for top overseas sporting events including Roland Garros, Stade de France and FI Grand Prix throughout the World.

Cavendish Travel Services

Cavendish Consultancy Services

Cavendish can help you maximise ‘return on investment’ from your corporate hospitality programme.

Cavendish Consultancy Services
Cavendish offers//
  • A proven track record of delivering memorable event experiences
  • Unrivalled experience and market knowledge
  • A 'benchmark’ of quality of service
  • Delivery on time, on budget and exceeding expectations
  • A 'total care’ service, pre-post and during your event
  • Genuine passion to deliver successful events
  • Financial Security
As a founder member of the Corporate Event Association (formerly the Corporate Hospitality Association and now part of Eventia), the UK’s primary industry body for corporate hospitality – and having provided two past chairmen, the company has continued to be at the forefront of the industry development – continually striving for higher standards and levels of service.

The company has a blue chip client base of regular hospitality buyers, from a myriad of industry sectors. By operating an account management principle the company has developed long standing relationships with a number of key clients including a number of major sporting organisations such as the IRB and the ICC.

Cavendish offers these clients access to a comprehensive range of events from sporting through to cultural, internationally as well as nationally - in some cases as a nominated official provider, or alternatively through pre-purchasing a significant allocation of hospitality packages.

recent appointments include//
  • The ICC World Twenty20 in the Caribbean May 2010
  • Tutankhamun the Golden King and the Great Pharaohs - Official Hospitality Provider 2009 - Atlanta, USA
  • Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of The Pharaohs - Official Hospitality and Special Events Provider 2007-2008 - 10,000 guests
  • European Athletics - Official Hospitality Provider 2005 -2008. 8,000 + guests
  • Rugby World Cup 2007 – Official Corporate Hospitality Agent. 7,500 guests
  • ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 – Official Hospitality Provider , 22,000 guests
  • The 2006 Ryder Cup – Approved Sales Agent
  • The 2006 FIFA World Cup – Approved Sales Agent
  • Clipper Round The World Yacht Race 2005 – 2006 – exclusive official hospitality provider
  • Cirque du Soleil, Saltimbanco 2005 – Official Hospitality Agent, (Manchester and Birmingham)
  • The Rugby World Cup 1999 & 2003, - official hospitality agent
  • Heineken European Cup 2000-2002, official hospitality agent
  • Rugby League World Cup 2000 – management of hospitality programme
  • The Millennium Dome - official hospitality partner
Major Event Experience//
Cavendish was a partner in the organisation that sold and operated the official corporate hospitality programme for the 1999 and 2003 Rugby World Cups. In 1999 as part of a consortium of agencies, Cavendish provided the Chairman of the Central Operations Executive, which had specific responsibility for the fulfilment of all hospitality provided including 6000 covers at the Final itself.

In 2003, Cavendish was responsible for the central co-ordination of the official hospitality programme. with Chris Bruton acting as Chief Executive, based in Sydney, overseeing in excess of 53,000 hospitality packages across 11 stadia.

Hospitality in Partnership//

Following the success of the company’s involvement in the 1999 and 2003 Rugby World Cup, Hospitality in Partnership was created as a vehicle to offer rights holders, event organisers and governing bodies, the benefit of their expertise in maximising the standards of delivery and financial returns from the provision of hospitality to both sponsors and non-sponsor corporate clients.

The company was appointed by Clipper Ventures, the owners of The Clipper Round The World Yacht Race 2005-2006, as their official hospitality provider. This is a worldwide appointment offering shore based and ‘on board’ hospitality opportunities at stopovers around the world.


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The Cavendish Group is a trading name of Cavendish Consultancy Limited, registered offices at 161-169 Uxbridge Road, London W13 9AU. Registered number; 1916730

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