Martin Hawthorn, Managing Director remarks, "We've been looking for some time now for London premises and the opportunity arose.  Having an established base in London provides another resource to the London customer as we continue to grow and grow.   An increasing amount of our conference and party work is London-based and now is a great time to build on that success with Core's experienced full time staff and equipment based in town".

The Hawthorn inventory of £5 million worth of state-of-the-art lighting, sound, drapes and staging will be based across the two locations, supporting the events market with their hugely successful creative in-house project management  team and the continued dry hire of equipment.

The move will make Hawthorn a £9 million turnover company employing 87 full time staff.

Mike Kershaw, Chairman of The Concerto Group said "We have worked with Hawthorns on many large productions over the past few years and we look forward to working with them in the future with our ever expanding client and venue portfolio".

This deal follows shortly after the addition of EventWise, Full Circle and The Delfina to the rapidly expanding Concerto Group, which is budgeted to turnover in excess of £20m in 2007.