New event management agency, Touch Associates, launches

Event management and communications agency, Touch Associates, officially launched today (19/1).
 
Touch, based in Leatherhead, is a new venture for Patrick Collins, former Owner and Chairman of Universal CIT, Nick Bender, former MD of Grass Roots, Collette Murphy, former Operations Director at UniversalProcon and Mike Ford, former MD of UniversalProcon.
 
The agency will target a range of industry sectors including pharmaceutical, providing venue sourcing, event management, event communications, creative design, event production and strategic meetings consultancy.
 
Colette Murphy said: “Although ourselves and Nick were competitors once upon a time, it is incredible how like-minded we are and I am extremely excited about our future together.
 
“We all bring something different to the table and it is a stroke of great fortune that our strengths compliment each other so strongly.”
 
The Touch team say it has already won seven clients and have been running events in both Europe and the rest of the World in the last few months.
 
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