The University of Exeter’s commercial trading arm, Event Exeter, was named Commercial University of the Year at the College and University Business Officers (CUBO) 2012 Conference’s gala dinner (20 June).
Held at Edinburgh University, the conference’s awards were launched this year to recognise and reward the non-academic areas in Higher Education, which through business and innovation support the core work of a university.
“Event Exeter impressed the judges by demonstrating its ability to exceed its commercial targets over the past three years, by securing some of the UK’s largest conference business which allowed them to become finalists,” Director of Operations for Campus Services at the University of Exeter, Jilly Court, said. “It was then the votes of other CUBO members which made the University overall winners.”
As well as providing a marketing and sales service, Event Exeter is the operational manager of the University’s 1,400-seat conference centre.
The CUBO Award comes seven weeks after the University’s £48m Forum was opened by HRH The Queen as part of the Jubilee tour.
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