Best News World n. 12 - Summer 2014

BEST NEWS WORLD SUMMER 2014

N. 12

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GOOD NEWS FOR GOOD PEOPLE after a first quarter with doubledigit growth in each of the main economic indicators we are about to close the first half and to analyze the prospects for the end of the year. The macroeconomic outlook is having its ups and downs and this is why we have decided to give a further decisive boost to growth in countries which are strategic and significant to our business. I am referring to France and China.

In France we have acquired IREC, one of the leading companies in the transalpine market as for revenues and reliability, with the intention of further implementing its revenues and margins. France is today, after Italy, the second largest market for sales of our group.

In addition to numerous new and confirmed orders, the preparatory activities on EXPO 2015 and the Louvre project are successfully going on. Our broad vision and intent to grow know no borders.

For this reason, we continue to be committed to recruit new highquality resources , while paying attention to the already existing ones.

In this regard, I wish to share with you this thought: “Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and fi n a l l y i t ro t s t h e i r s o u l s ,

allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues.

Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game In our group we admire our rivals and we do our best to be admired; the same way we search for similarly excellent

people and tur n away the mediocre ones.

Thanks to everyone, inside and outside our company, who has the courage of truth and pursues it without compromise.These people are our strength and I ensure my full personal commitment in order to make the markets understand that the quality of our group also reflects the quality of the people belonging to it.

It is one of my tasks to keep our i d e n t i t y, a n d t h i s i s m y commitment while I am now giving you appointment to the next issue. Greetings to all.

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Dear Readers,

In China we are now present through our French subsidiary in Beijing, where a dozen colleagues deal with the many customers we have acquired so far.

The Best Union Group is enjoying their new role as ticketing system partner for the Louvre Museum!

The Louvre is using Best Union’s BOS ticketing and access control system to handle onsite sales, web sales and call center sales of tickets to the Louvre’s museum, the auditorium and the Museum de la Croix.

Using a phased-in approach, the Best Union team first installed BOS to enable the Louvre to perform back office sales. After a successful back-office launch, the highly customized B O S ticketing system w a s implemented at the ticketing stations at the worldfamous Pyramid. And BOS will be rolled out to the rest of the Louvre complex very soon!

Best Union Company CEO Luca Montebugnoli comments, “With about 10 million visitors each year, the Louvre is the largest and most visited museum in the world. Having achieved this opportunity to successfully support such a complex international project demonstrates the quality of our products and the ability of the Best Union t eam t o provide world-class solutions.”

Montebugnoli continues, “By winning the p u b l i c a n n o u n c e m e n t i s s u e d by t h e prestigious French museum, the Best Union Group continues its international growth in the worldwide ticketing market, as earlier demonstrated by the partnerships with The Metropolitan Museum of Arts, the Historical Royal Palaces of London and La Biennale di Venezia.Best Union recognizes France as a market with excellent growth prospects and has recently opened a new branch based in Paris.”

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NEWS FROM FRANCE MARKET!

BEST UNION GROUP I M P L E M E N T S B O S AT THE LOUVRE MUSEUM!

OMNITICKET NETWORK EXHIBITS AT ASIAN ATTRACTIONS EXPO 2014 IN BEIJING The OmniTicket team was proud to be promoting the Best Overview Solution (BOS)! BOS is the global solution for ticketing, retail POS, access control, stored value cards and online sales, and is installed at theme parks and attractions around the world.

Recently BOS has been installed at multiple prestigious attractions, including the Louvre Museum, FinnairSkywheel in Helsinki, Hornblower Niagara Cruises, Roosevelt Park Zoo and Wet ‘n’ Wild Sydney.

In addition to the BOS system the OmniTicket booth presented a variety of innovative s o l u t i o n s including: • M o b i l e such as our and the newest optimized websites.

Solutions, IPhone app m o b i l e

• RFID stored value solutions that enable the use of RFID enable wristbands and tickets throughout an attraction to pay for admission, products, food & beverage, lockers and more.

• Cloud hosting services and remote access options that are now available based on the BOS system’s architecture which has been designed to support remote and distributed operations.

• Interactive online opportunities for attractions to build and maintain relationships with their visitors before, during and after their visit to the attraction.

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ASIAN ATTRACTIONS EXPO 2014

The Asian Attractions Expo 2014 was held the 18th to 20th of June at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, China, and OmniTicket Network’s team from Asia was onsite and exhibiting in Booth #319.

FINNAIRSKYWHEEL IN HELSINKI GOES LIVE WITH BOS! FinnairSkywheel u s i n g OmniTicket Network's BOS ticketing system as they opened to the public on Tuesday June 3rd at the KatajanokkaHarbour in central Helsinki!

This special VIP cabin features a glass floor, leather seats and VeuveClicquot champagne service.

While one standard trip on the FinnairSkyWheel takes about 15 minutes, a ride in the VIP cabin lasts approximately 25 minutes!

The installed BOS system provides a state-ofthe-art solution for the F i n n a i r S k y w h e e l ’s t i c k e t i n g operations onsite, with online sales are planned soon!

The 40-metre high observation wheel is equipped with 30 climate-controlled gondolas which accommodated over 2.5 thousands visitors on the first day of operations! In fact, the first paying customers where newlyweds who arrive at 7:00 PM to take a ride in the VIP cabin.

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OmniTicket Network’s UK project team was proud to see the

OMNITICKET’S BOS SYSTEM GOES LIVE AT ROOSEVELT PARK ZOO OmniTicket Network's US project team has successfully installed the Best Overview Solution (BOS) at the Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, North Dakota! The Roosevelt Park Zoo is now using BOS to sell admission tickets onsite, with online sales coming soon.

Established in 1920, the Roosevelt Park Zoo "strives to provide education, experiences, and knowledge promoting wildlife understanding, conser vation, and an intrinsic, personal connection with the natural world."

The Zoo is home to many wonderful animals, such as the grey wolf, and has a long and storied history of survival, still going strong after two major floods over the years, in 1969 and again in 2011, that forced the evacuation of every bird and animal to temporary housing!

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This quickly growing zoo set a record for attendance in their 2013 season, and their new BOS system is sure to support their future growth during and beyond their 2014 season which started on May 3rd.

HORNBLOWER NIAGARA C R U I S E S C E L E B R AT E S M A I D E N V O YA G E

The “Voyage to the Falls” cruise departs every 15 minutes and starts each day with an early morning sunrise boat tour as well as a spectacular nighttime fireworks cruise.

Hornblower Cruises hopes to welcome alarge volume of passengers on a and will use O m n i T i c k e t BOS system, the ticketing access control ticket sales, access control and

Niagara aboard daily basis Network’s world’s leading solution, to handle Web sales.

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Hornblower Niagara Cruises made its long-awaited maiden voyage into Niagara Falls this May. The “Voyage to the Falls” boat tour provides un-paralleled viewing of the glorious Great Gorge, American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls and world-famous Horseshoe Falls.

Lucky passengers get to experience the awesome power of nature on display at Niagara Falls during the approximately 30minute journey.

OMNITICKET 2014 USER SUMMIT HEADING FOR LAS VEGAS THIS SEPTEMBER!

Attendees will be able to network with fellow users, meet OmniTicket Network staff and learn about exciting new products and solutions on the horizon.

We ask all OmniTicket Network users to save the date for the OmniTicket Network 2014 User Summit in Las Vegas!

Hope to see you in Vegas!

Omniticket Network invites you to join our team and fellow users for networking, case studies, best practice sessions, and much more!

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OmniTicket Network’s 2014 User Summit will be held in Las Vegas on September 28 - October 1, 2014 at the Rio Las Vegas Hotel and Casino! Users are invited to join the OmniTicket team for case studies, best practice sessions, end user discussions and m u c h more!

The exhibition curated by Germano Celant explores the relationship between art and sound and the way it has developed from the 16th century to the present day, examining the iconic aspects of musical instruments, the role of the artist-musician, and the areas in which the visual arts and music have come together. The exhibition sets out to investigate the relationship of symmetry and ambivalence that exists between works of art and sound objects. The intention is to offer a reinterpretation of the musical instrument that turns into a sculptural-visual entity and of the artworks that produce sound, in a continual encroachment and inversion of fields.

ART OR SOUND The exhibition comprises more than 180 artifacts: clocks and carillons, automata and musical machines, paintings and scores, sculptures and readymades, together with decorated, assembled, imaginary and silent musical instruments.

The visitor, observing and listening to the works on display, is invited to identify the variety of ways through which art and sound have embarked on the same journey or become intertwined. The exhibition is organized in order to offer the viewer a broader engagement than that provided by the categorical perception of the artwork dictated by the eye, thus giving both the acoustic and visual elements equal prominence. The aim is to explore the possibilities of a multisensory approach to appreciating exhibits, where the act of seeing is accompanied by those of hearing, touching, smelling and tasting, enriching the understanding of art through all our senses. A unique event, also possible thanks to the contribution of the Best Union Group, long-time partner of Venetian cultural institutions.

Fondazione Prada presents “Art or Sound” - Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice - June 7 - November 3, 2014

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FONDAZIONE PRADA - ART OR SOUND

FONDAZIONE PRADA

EUTROPIA - L’ALTRA CITTÀ “When he enters the territory of which Eutropia is the capital, the traveler sees not one city but many, of equal size and not unlike one another, scattered over a vast, rolling plateau”.

So Italo Calvino described the city of Eutropia, a city made of many cities.

Beginning June 6, 2014 Campo Boario in Rome hosts the exhibition Eutropia - L'ALTRA CITTÀ, a three-month series of concerts, cinema, DJ-sets and gastronomic events.

Various performances will include folk music (Eugenio Bennato) to reggae (Sud Sound System, Alpha Blondy, 99 Posse), to the sounds of Balkan Goran Bregovic to the most important Italian performers (Vinicio Capossela, Marlene Kuntz, Baustelle, Frankie hi-nrg, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and many others). The cinema will present the latest season’s best films, as well as special events with important guests. Starting at midnight the town turns into a huge disco under the stars. From funk to swing, from beat to rock and roll, the DJs promise a different set for each night in the summer. Everything will take place in a multi-ethnic setting which is colorful, full of sounds and flavors… a perfect place for socializing and dating.

Enjoy a summer full of events that you can book on www.vivaticket.it now, because Vivaticket never goes on holiday!

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EUTROPIA - L’ALTRA CITTÀ

Eutropia - L'ALTRA CITTÀ is a city within a city, a place of exchange, just as Italo Calvino had imagined it in his "Invisible Cities". The project enhances Testaccio, one of the "more Roman" areas of the city, which is rich in history and already the scene of many social and cultural initiatives.

The Palazzo Cini Gallery is a refined example of a museum house. Created in 1984, it contains a valuable collection of historic art works that belonged to a leading 20th-century Italian collector: the industrialist and philanthropist Vittorio Cini (1885 – 1977).

THE REOPENING OF THE PALAZZO CINI GALLERY To mark the 30th anniversary of the first opening, the gallery – in the renovated palazzo with a restyled layout – has been reopened by the Giorgio Cini Foundation in collaboration with Assicurazioni Generali.

The original galler y was established thanks to a donation b y Ya n a C i n i A l l i a t a d i Montereale. In 1981 she presented the Foundation with part of her father’s collections and some rooms on the piano nobile of the palace, which he had acquired in 1919 as a residence on the Grand Canal. His daughter’s gift thus preserved the vital bond between the collection and the house.

The donation consists of 13th- to 16th-century Tuscan paintings, some fine sculptures and items of decorative arts, such as the outstanding group of Renaissance enamelled copper objects made by a Venetian manufactory, a group of Gothic ivories and the elegant Cozzi porcelain table service, laid out in the Neo-Rococo oval room, designed by Tomaso Buzzi. In 1989 an extraordinary collection of Ferrarese Renaissance paintings was added to the initial collection, courtesy of the Cini Guglielmi di Vulci heirs.

As usual Best Union Group is the protagonist of the most important Italian cultural events. Visit Vivaticket website and start planning your next encounter with art!

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FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI

Ven ice, M ay 2 4 - N ovemb er 2, 2 014

ÂŤI've had two serious accidents in my life. The first was when a tram filled me in on the carpet, the other was Diego.Âť Frida Kahlo

FRIDA KAHLO DIEGO RIVERA Genoa, Palazzo Ducale 20 September 2014 - 8 February 2015

He was the m o s t famous painter of revolutionary Mexico, asked to paint a mural in the amphitheater of the institute, while she was an irreverent girl.

Seven years later, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were

husband and wife. It was the beginning of a long and tormented love, full of betrayals and twists (including a gun), destined to become a legend.

The exhibition, organized by the Genoa Ducal Palace Foundation for Culture, MondoMostre and Skira, is curated

by Helga Prignitz-Poda, with the extraordinary collaboration of Cristina Kahlo (Frida's greatgrandson) and Juan Coronel R i v e r a (nephew of Diego).

The exhibition brings together 120 works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and tells the secrets links that united both in their art and life two artists so profoundly different.

Once again Charta will be involved in one of the most important cultural events, which will take place this autumn. Tickets are available now at www.vivaticket.it.

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FRIDA KAHLO - DIEGO RIVERA

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera first met in 1922 under the scaffolding of the National Preparatory School.

INDIA THE REVEALED MYSTERIES

From June 5 to September 30, Venice hosts the largest exhibition of contemporary Indian art.

The 1200 square meters exhibition has been organized

by EbLand in partnership with Vela Spa, sponsored by the Venice City Council and promoted by Maba Notify Ltd.

100 works on display, including paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, photographs and a performance, will allow us toexperience the mysteries of this wonderful country.

India has long been considered a country full of contrasts and contradictions; indeed, it is a mixture of races and languages, religions and traditions which have survived for centuries, almost impenetrable to the rest of the world.

As usual, the Best Union Group offers the opportunity to enjoy the most thought-provoking cultural events, simply by booking your tickets from the comfort of home.

Now the "mysteries" of this land will be revealed thanks to the insight into the Indian culture offered by a fabulous exhibition of the works by 28 contemporary artists.

Visit www.vivaticket.it and begin your journey into the mysteries of India!

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INDIA - THE REVEALED MYSTERIES

28 artists for the largest exhibition dedicated to indian contemporary art. A journey in the culture and the mysteries of a booming country.

FIERA DEL LEVANTE Be st Union Compan y welcomes the visitors to Fiera del Levante Fiera del Levante has always been a meeting point between the different economic realities facing the Mediterranean Sea, from the southern Italian regions up to the Balkan countries and the Middle East.

Specialized exhibitions which take place at Fiera del Levante are numerous: Business Centre, Agrimed, Motus, Edil L e v a n t e Abitare, Salone dell'Arredamento and Med Fishing Expo, in addition to a whole area dedicated to national craft products, catering and bakery equipments, earth-moving machines as well as to consumer goods.

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Fiera del Levante is a great opportunity to get closer to new markets and establish profitable trade for all exhibitors, and it represents a unique showcase by offering to the public visitors the opportunity to purchase different products.

Best Union Company will support Fiera del Levante by providing staffing services, as well as ticketing and access control system.

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FIERA DEL LEVANTE

Fiera del Levante binds together European markets and the commercial realities in developing countries of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, by providing propulsion to countries that are normally outside of the major international exchanges. Fiera del Levante covers a very wide area, so as to reach more than one million visitors and about 2000 exhibitors.

The 24th edition of the Game Fair Italia was a great success!

The Game Fair is considered to be a reference point for all lovers of outdoor activities and sports.

Over a three day period the Italian country fair hosted 170 exhibitors, with a 22% increase compared to 2013, and the participation of the largest weapons manufacturers. The fair also registered an increase in the number of visitors with more than 35,000 people taking part in the event held in the picturesque estate of Spinicci.

The town of Tarquinia hosted more than 250 events from May 31 to June 2, 2014, including demonstrations dedicated to the different disciplines of shooting sports, hunting and fishing, horseback riding and various programs for dogs. Many areas were dedicated to country with stands of clothing, furniture, accessories and food.

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The success of the exhibition was guaranteed by the collaboration between the company GFI Srl (incorporated by Fiera di Vicenza SpA, and CNCN Odescalchi family) and Best Union Company, one of the leading companies in the provision of qualified personnel dedicated to t i c k e t i n g , hospitality and security services.

Thanks to this excellent synergy t h e next edition which will take place September 6-7, 2014 in the Bay of Calenella, in the heart of the Gargano National Park, will be unforgettable as well.

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GAME FAIR ITALIA 2014

GAME FAIR ITALIA 2014

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