Sam Newman Jnr gets his tie straightened and his mascara touched up before the lights and camera come to life for his live appearance on Channel Nine’s Footy Show. The team at Giant inflatables and Sam Jnr, wish our man Sam a speedy recovery and look forward to his return to pilot the ship once again. It was a job that posed some serious challenges for the team who worked an 18hr shift to get him camera ready. We need to say a HUGE thanks to the fabulous guys at Covercraft – Les and the team - without whose wizardry with the artwork and the die-sub printer this ‘Sam inflatable character’ would have never come off. I am always grateful to the extended team and our specialist partners, who make the “edge of the envelope” a workable adventure!

It’s a nerve wracking wait when a client who has implicit trust in our ability to understand what they require gets their delivery. Our expectations of ourselves not to let them down are always so high. Our credo is that “we are here only to make it better for our clients”. So until we get that feedback from the client that we “did it again” the tension of expectation remains. We thank the team at Zing and trust that we will never let them down even if the fan may. This product is a customized inflatable shelter 7m in diameter. It folds down into a bag that can fit in the boot of a family car and weighs just 28 kgs.

We congratulate Zetta Florence on the opening of their new shop in High Street Armadale. Zetta Florence specializes in the supply of Archival Quality storage products to museums, galleries, libraries and archives. It’s a worthwhile experience to visit their site http://www.zettaflorence.com.au/ and to view their extensive range.

February has ended and the year is well under way when March appears from nowhere. What happened to the New-year break? It’s already so busy back at the works. There are so many projects on the go all at once. One of our new wings, Giant Industrial Inflatable Solutions, is busy launching a new range of inflatable workshops, and temporary storage shelters. These fascinatingly useful portable spaces are going to offer many clients possibilities in shelter and temporary space that only in their dreams could they have access to. At the same time, our Architectural Design team are involved with exciting projects all over the world. Our specialist space manipulation and modification solutions are finding ever increasing acceptance with established and mainstream designers. These custom designed solutions for enhancing, modifying and dividing space are being increasingly accepted as ‘Environmentally Sustainable Design’ because of their energy efficient creation, energy efficient operation, en

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Hot Dog Man and Mighty Dog went to a gig in Cairns for Fire ART - http://www.fireart.net.au/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKYmirlyj0&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q48F3eulhPE&feature=related

Many of our clients comment on the ease they have in understanding the process of ‘design to supply’ of the product we produce. We try really hard to make all our clients’ experience an enriching and rewarding process. We make it our aim to demystify inflatables and take the worry out of their expectations. It’s also vital to us that they in turn can communicate to their clients. We train with them so that they can feel completely confident and knowledgeable when talking to their clients. For us, that is even more important than the successful, timeous [sometimes just] supply of the finished product. This is part of the process of which much is very visual in nature.

Then yet another late-night sprint to the finish for the motocross……and some inflatable punch bags for the start line. These huge EVIBS - Extreme Visibility Inflatable Branding Solutions are ‘tall inflatable columns’ used as branding for the sponsors of the event. They were used as start and finish gates and stood tall at 6m high. At last we can offer, after nearly 6months of trials, our new technology, low-energy, whisper-quiet internally mounted inflation fans .This was not our easiest of R&D experiences.

What has The Giant Inflatables Team been up to? The day we completed a new ‘Start/finish arch’ the team took it out to a school fund raising event for the Leibler Yavneh college Yavnathon. The caterers were overjoyed to work under the SNOPE – a 4 legged inflatable dome. At last complying with the OH&S regulation requiring food service and preparation to take place under shelter could easily and seamlessly be done. Anthony and his team were overjoyed when they saw the ease with which the arch was installed. Last year saw organisers climbing trees to erect the banners across the roadway.