Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre combined with Prestbury Conference seating and Stanway Stacking chairs make a winning team.

The annual Meetings and Incentive Travel magazine awards were held on Wednesday the 13th of February and proved to be in favour of the Scottish capital. Amongst the award winners were the Glasgow located Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre who picked up the “Best UK Conference Centre” accolade. SECC beat off contenders such as The ICC in Birmingham, Church House Conference Centre and London and Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

SECC offers a wide range of facilities and seating plans. From conferences and exhibitions to concerts, SECC regularly host big events. Due to the range of events and flexibility offered, the SECC has a variety of conference and event seating. One of their chosen favourites is the enormously comfortable, highly adaptable Prestbury seating. This beautifully designed conference chair is admirably hardwearing, with looks that last, complementing some of the world's premier conference venues.

Sir Norman Foster, Partners and Race Furniture designed the Prestbury conference seating is the product of years of innovative, forward-looking design and manufacture. It boasts a range of ergonomic and functional features, including lumbar cushion support, anti-panic foldaway writing tablet, removable seat cushions, end of row lighting and a facility for audio visual and data wiring. If required folding backrests can be specified that turn alternate rows into desks making the Prestbury conference seating a highly versatile seating system. Whether rows are straight or shallow curved, whether floors are flat or sloping, the Prestbury seating is easily adaptable.

Prestbury seating can be found around the country in auditoriums, universities and conference centres. For more information on where it has been installed and its benefits, please visit http://www.racefurniture.com/.

In addition Race have supplied some 1500 of their Stanway stacking chairs to the SECC for their break out conference rooms. The chair is favourite amongst conference facilitators providing comfort, durability and value for money. Details of the Stanway stacking chair can be found on Race’s tailor made stacking chair website http://www.stacking-chairs-uk.com/.

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