Nigel Carter 28 May 1954 - 8 November 2012
Publisher Robert Aplin celebrates Nigel Carter’s eight years with Executive Hire News and Executive Hire Show.
I first met Nigel Carter in September 2003. At the time he was working as an Area Manager for HSS Event Hire. It took me some time to persuade Nigel to leave the security of a large, successful company to join EHN’s small team of publishing professionals. However, he made the critical decision and joined us in January 2004, just in time for that year’s Hire Show at Excel, London.
2005 was a big year for us.We re-located EHN to Wiltshire and Ali Brain (as she was then) joined the team. In May, under Editor Alan Guthrie’s guidance, we published our Hand Arm Vibration (HAV) Supplement to clarify for hirers the key issues contained in the forthcoming Control of Vibration at Work Regulations.
Nigel was one of the founders of the Executive Hire Show in July 2006.
This led to our first HAV Conference in October 2005, held at our offices in Wiltshire. This was where Nigel flourished. He organised a large, clearspan marquee to be erected in the grounds of Hartham Park to house twenty 3m x 2m display stands for suppliers keen to promote their tools and equipment.
Buoyed by this success, in July the following year, we announced the launch of the Executive Hire Show at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, to be held in January 2007 and hosted a second HAV Conference at that venue in October to prove to the industry that we were ready to assume the mantle of staging its annual exhibition. Nigel and Ali led the team in organising the event.
Nigel pictured here busy planning the 2008 Show strategy with Ali (left) and Allie.
However, Nigel’s greatest achievement was the speed with which he set about promoting the new Show and signing up his customers to exhibit at the Ricoh. Don’t forget, there was already a hire show planned for January 2007.
The fact that the Excel event organiser soon decided to cancel owed much to the skilful way Nigel set about convincing exhibitors to take stand space at our new Show, rather than at the existing exhibition.
Nigel was central to the success of that inaugural Executive Hire Show and its continued success throughout the last six years. He also made a significant contribution to EHN’s fortunes in this period. He was passionate about our hire industry and his customers, and was a committed team player. My favourite line from 2006 that ‘we achieved more in 20 weeks with the Show than we had achieved in 20 years of publishing.’ This now, sadly with his passing, becomes the biggest compliment that I can pay Nigel Carter.
On behalf of the Executive Hire team,we now dedicate both this issue of EHN and the forthcoming 2013 Executive Hire Show to his memory. Nigel is sadly missed by all of us.
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The founding Executive Hire Show Team was Highly Commended in the 2007 HAE Hire Awards of Excellence.
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