{"id":2578,"date":"2013-06-18T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:42:46","slug":"titanic-awards-for-marcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":"Titanic Awards for Marcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of Northern Ireland\u2019s leading fit-out companies Marcon and Northern Ireland\u2019s biggest visitor attraction Titanic Belfast\u00ae are celebrating this week after scooping two prestigious awards at two separate award ceremonies in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2579\" title=\"Marcon\" src=\"http:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_MAIN.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_MAIN-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;\">(L-R) Tim Husbands, Chief Executive, Titanic Belfast and Mark O&#8217;Connor, Director, Marcon Fit-Out pictured with the two prestigious awards won at two separate award ceremonies in London recently.<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marcon Fit-Out was presented with the \u2018Overall Winner\u2019 award for the company\u2019s fit-out of the Exhibition &amp; Gallery at Titanic Belfast\u00ae at the National Association of Shopfitters (NAS) Design Partnership Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic Titanic Belfast\u00ae building, located at the Slipways where the great liner was built, picked up a second award for its Titanic Store, winning the \u2018Trading + Enterprise\u2019 category at the Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Mark O\u2019Connor, Director, Marcon Fit-Out, says of the double-award achievement:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are absolutely delighted that our work at the state-of-the-art Titanic Belfast\u00ae building has been recognised at the highest level. Winning not one but two awards at two consecutive award events is a tremendous achievement that we are very proud of.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTitanic Belfast is the world\u2019s largest Titanic visitor attraction and we are thrilled that the judges of these respected industry awards acknowledged the excellent quality, bespoke fit-out of the Exhibition &amp; Galleries and the Titanic Store.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xa407Ga_gqc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Marcon Harcourt Testimonial video<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Shopfitters (NAS) Design Partnership Awards recognise the best in interior fit-out across the UK &amp; Ireland. The highly-coveted Museums &amp; Heritage Awards for Excellence are the annual industry awards for museums, galleries, heritage and cultural visitor attractions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the two award wins, Tim Husbands, Chief Executive, Titanic Belfast\u00ae, commented: <em>\u201cTitanic Belfast exemplifies all that is great about the variety of industries, businesses and skills that went in to making it a world class visitor attraction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMarcon\u2019s expertise is evident in the popular and successful Titanic Store and throughout the exhibition at Titanic Belfast, and we congratulate their double awards success.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2588\" title=\"Titanic 1\" src=\"http:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_1.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2591\" title=\"Titanic 2\" src=\"http:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_2.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2593\" title=\"Titanic 3\" src=\"http:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_3.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MARC_TITANIC_3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Northern Ireland\u2019s leading fit-out companies Marcon and Northern Ireland\u2019s biggest visitor attraction Titanic Belfast\u00ae are celebrating this week after scooping two prestigious awards at two separate award ceremonies in London. &nbsp; (L-R) Tim Husbands, Chief Executive, Titanic Belfast and Mark O&#8217;Connor, Director, Marcon Fit-Out pictured with the two prestigious awards won at two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,48,42,22],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-achievement","tag-latest-news","tag-member-achievement","tag-member-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}