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Wendy Von Fries (SITE, CMP and TOA): President & CMO works together with a permanent staff of highly qualified individuals, who all speak a minimum of 3 languages, and who take pride in handling your event. Our team gathers over 25 years of experience, primarily in Event Management, as well as in Public Relations and Marketing.

Our team works from strategy planning to creative development, design, implementation and production. We manages logistics, with a highly qualified full time operations team, and carefully selected preferred suppliers.

Our aim is to create a unique experience that your guests will never forget, exceed your expectations, that will result in a stronger and better brand identity.

Whether you are planning a trade show or exhibition, a conference or road show, an award ceremony, a public or private company celebration, a fashion show, a charity fundraising operation, an engaging product or company launch aiming to create greater brand awareness, a winning internal team building experience, or a press event – with an achievable Public Relations plan, experiential consumer engagement, or a sport and sponsorship event, then you need not look further. Paris Prelude will be delighted to be your partner in France.

Wendy von Fries President - CMP

Paris Prelude About Us…..

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Paris Prelude What We Do …..

Paris Prelude is your insurance that your program is an absolute success in the eyes of your internal or external client. We work quietly behind the scenes to ensure that you and all variables of your event shine.

Our Event Management Company specialises in Exclusive Private Events, Product Launches, VIP Concierge Services, Congress support and the creation and operation of unique programs for Corporate Meetings and Incentives. Paris Prelude is privately owned by the hands on management team working with great enthusiasm and local pride. We are a concierge level event management team with certified event planning degrees and a combined experience of over 25 years in the industry. Our creativity, work ethic and local relationships offer a unique advantage to our customers. Over 70% of our business is by word of mouth. Our keen knowledge of the meetings and incentive end user expectations and local relationships enable us to provide a high level of efficiency and standard of quality well above normal expectations.

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Other Paris Prelude Services…..

CATERING Gourmet and exclusive Creative and In line with theme

HOTEL ACCOMODATION Hôtels 3* to 5* De luxe apartments in any requested area

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES Group / individual transport from and to airports or stations luxury cars or coaches with private drivers Shuttles to/from venues, exhibitions etc..

STAFF AND HOSTESSES Bilingual hostesses , transportation coordinators Staff qualified to high standards Interpreters Masters of ceremony, speakers

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UNIQUE VENUES Privatised museums, unusual locations Catering and Audiovisual equipment, theming, event design,Dinners, gala, ceremonies, cocktails, Press conferences, networking, product launches and much more…

Paris Prelude Unique Venues specific to Requirements

Ribbon Chem – Company merge party Venue: Privately owned Museum - Paris Aim: Create a synergy between staff clients around the merge theme whilst ensuring a memorable

eveningGuests: 200 people, internal staff and clientsType of event: Dinner, entertainment, live concert, in line with evening theme.

Vereenigde – Team Building weekend combined with Senior staff farewell party Venue: ParisAim: Build management to staff working relationship, and an homage to the senior member of the company Guests: 50 peopleType of event: Team building exercises, interactive activities (cooking classes at The Ritz, visit of Paris in 2CV, Garçons

de Café races), private dinner.

Paris Prelude Scope of Work.. A few examples

Orangina – Product Launch Venue: Aquarium and privatised restaurant – Paris Aim: Launching a new productGuests: 100 people, internal staff and top distributorsType of Event: Themed catering, entertainment, workshops

Branding Opportunities, Experiential Venues: Private venues, outdoorsAim: Increase brand awareness and visibilityGuests: Clients and internal staff 300, visibility outdoors over15,000 Type of Event: Cocktails, stand, street marketing

Paris Prelude Scope of Work.. A few examples

“With little budget Wendy pulled all stops with her local contacts to secure the last private yacht available at a bargain price and pulled off a high level event for our top league players and board members during Bastille weekend in Paris. We could not consider anyone else for all our programs.” Michelle Sajan – National Hockey League Players Association

“Our program in Paris, thanks to Wendy and her team, turned out to be the most memorable and complimented program in our clients’ survey in 15 years for this group. We highly recommend this unique French/American team in France.” Gary Baldwin – Baldwin Marketing & Incentives – UK

“Wendy and her team are intuitive in understanding our needs, proactive in recommending options and following up and through to produce results worthy of our event objectives. What’s more she is fun to work with and I have no hesitation in recommending Paris Prelude for anyone.” Vish Deshmane V.P. Marketing – Intel (former V.P. Marketing – Marvell)

“Wendy Von Fries organization’s contributions to worthy charities is unprecedented in France. The tireless efforts from Wendy and her kind and devoted team deserves mention. Bravo et merci beaucoup!” 

Translated from Ministry of Culture News – France

What they are saying about Paris Prelude… A few words

Creative, original and well connected

Flexible and creative with all budgets

Local Full Service support by experienced staff

A warm, friendly team dedicated to making your event special

Strong relationships in the local and business communities

Dedicated multilingual project team

Proactive and immediate response regardless of time zone

High level of customer service

Available all year round

A very high standard of work ethic

Selected suppliers who share our philosophy of quality service

Strict confidentiality

Exclusive and tailor-made solutions

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Why Choose Paris Prelude?

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Barcelona Prelude Events

www.barcelonaprelude.com

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Paris Prelude Sister Company ~ Barcelona Prelude

Please visit our sister company with our local team based in Barcelona for your event management requirements in Spain.

annelaure@barcelonaprelude.com | General Manager, Barcelona Prelude