Last Saturday, Beaver Design held the 2009 Beaver Challenge Trophy football tournament. The five-a-side competition was this year raising money for Stapleford Primary School and Early Learners group and we managed to raise £230, which will go directly to the school.

Teams played out in 13 matches, lasting 10 minutes each, taking on each other to win the impressive Beaver Challenge Trophy. Team Beaver unfortunately got knocked out before the semi-finals, but we’ll be back again next year!

The winning team of this year’s tournament were ‘Athletico Pathetico’ winning the final match against ‘NNC’: 3-1. The award for Top Goalscorer 2009 went to Andrew Trayler, who scored an impressive eight goals throughout the day and Best Beaver Shot went to Kevin Hughes, for a spectacular shot which he took from beyond the half-way line. Player of the tournament was Jon Addy, for a high number of goals and consistently good play.

Congratulations to everyone who took part and thank-you for your donations!

The gala award ceremony for the Federation of Small Business (FSB) Awards 2009 was held last week and Beaver Solutions, part of the Beaver Group, is proud to have won second place in the category of “best e-business”.

Beaver Solutions is the sister company to Beaver Design, both of which form the Beaver Group. The Beavers beat off a lot of difficult competition with our innovative and successful work in the field of digital signage and web development. The awards noted our continuing work in integrating digital signage with a range of different web technologies.

All the Beavers are proud to have won another award for our work and would like to congratulate all the other winners and finalists from the evening.

Every week, new movies are released and shown throughout the country’s cinemas. This means that each week, new posters are needed to promote the current and upcoming movie releases. For Showcase Cinemas, this means digital posters – since throughout their Bristol, Leicester, Derby and Nottingham venues, they are using a complete digital signage system provided by Beaver Group.

The Beaver Group provide weekly designs and content for Showcase’s upcoming movies. The artwork comes direct from the movie distributors to Beaver Group, where we edit, animate and create the digital signage posters for the cinema.

Because the physical space a digital signage screen takes up can be reused again and again, more than just one poster can be shown on the same screen. This means that Beaver create the posters for smaller movies, as well as the big films from Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Disney and others.

For more information about the award-winning work for Showcase Cinemas, take a look at the case-study page >

As part of the ongoing service we provide for Showcase Cinemas, the Beaver Group, designs new promotions for the concession stand menu boards to tie in with current movie releases. Recently, this has been in the form of a number of pieces for promotional content to tie in with the releases of Terminator Salvation and the Ron Howard thriller, Angels & Demons.

Along with all design services we provide (graphic, web & digital signage), the content design for promotions on digital menu boards is a specialist service which the Beaver Group provides.

For more information on our award-winning work with Showcase Cinemas, take a look at this case-study page >

Since the first Showcase Cinema de Lux site was completed in Derby last May, Beaver has continued providing content design and support services to this award winning project.*

Each week, new movie posters and promotions are created and published in the three Showcase Cinema de Lux venues. Using digital signage instead of traditional print allows the spillway signage to use subtle animations to draw peoples attention as they move around the cinema. Beaver provides these content creation services in-house, along with all the technical support.

For more detail on the content services provided by Beaver to Showcase Cinemas, take a look at the content article by Digital Signage Universe >

*For more information on the award winning Showcase Cinemas project as a whole, take a look at our case-study page >