Holovis is delighted to announce the opening of its latest offices, development and innovation centre at Southport’s Eastbank Creative and Digital hub in its newly refurbished Enterprise Arcade building in Southport town centre.
The award-winning immersive technology company will bring their expertise and unique immersive and interactive solutions to the collaborative hub on Eastbank Street, which has just received a £1.5m makeover.
The move is part of the continued strategic growth of Holovis and focus on bringing their world-class experiential, immersive and interactive solutions to the entertainment, enterprise and meditech sectors in the north of England.
Holovis has over 20 years of historical connection to the region having supported early regeneration and local-government projects with their large-scale AV systems and are now building on those historic relationships and local-industry partnerships.
Holovis works in the experiential, enterprise and medical research sectors, while delivering their immersive complex AV systems, creative and media services, systems integration and interactive solutions to public venues, visitor attractions and experiences that benefit from their world-class turn-key services.
Stuart Hetherington, CEO of Holovis, said:
“We’re absolutely delighted to be moving back into the region to support local projects with our unique capabilities and solutions. We look forward to expanding our business in the region alongside our local partnerships while promoting and supporting exciting career opportunities for those looking to join our diverse team of experts and work with us in our exciting industry sectors.
“With so much investment and regeneration taking place, this is the perfect time for us to also invest in the region and make this move. We’re looking forward to collaborating with local businesses and delivering world class tech-driven experiences and solutions across the region.”
Jon Corner, Sector Specialist for Sefton Council who is helping to shape the project, said:
“The Holovis move to Southport is a great signal of the emerging eco-system of talent, capability and opportunity in the region, and reflects the genuine ambition across stakeholders here in Sefton to provide opportunities for young people.
“Holovis are a world-class organisation whose presence here will undoubtedly have a positive impact.”
Cllr Marion Atkinson, Leader at Sefton Council, said:
“It comes as no surprise that a company of Holovis’ global acclaim has recognised the incredible potential and benefits of working from Sefton.
“We are delighted that Holovis will be setting up a North of England base at the Enterprise Arcade. This is a testament to our ongoing commitment to revitalise and energise the economy of Southport and Sefton, as well as grow our local Creative and Digital sectors.
“Southport and Sefton is being recognised by major industry leaders as having all the right ingredients for growing and building businesses successfully and we continue to work hard to attract more investment into the borough.”
Holovis are headquartered in Hinckley and have international offices and innovation centres in the USA, Middle East and China.
Holovis has worked with many enterprise clients over the years including JLR, Sony, Saudi Aramco, BAE Systems and many Higher Education establishments. The company also focuses on solutions dedicated to the experiential and entertainment sectors with major clients including Universal Studios, Disney, Netflix, Norwegian Cruise Lines, SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, Miral and SEVEN.
The Southport office will be led by Alex Kunawicz. He has worked in immersive technology for the past decade in the Manchester and Liverpool regions.
Alex announced the move to local business and government leaders at Invest Sefton’s “Sefton Huddle” event on Wednesday evening.
Holovis’ latest project was a Squid Game experience for Netflix.
You can find out more about this here: https://www.holovis.com/projects/squid-game-the-experience
About Holovis:
Holovis creates world-class experiential solutions for global themed entertainment, visitor attractions and enterprise clients.
Specialising in creative-design, systems integration, complex AV, interactive and immersive technologies, software development, motion systems and SFX, to deliver award-winning and market-defining attractions, experiential content, digital centerpieces and turnkey attractions.
Holovis leverages their synergistic capabilities from their diverse interdisciplinary teams to create unique solutions which mix cutting-edge technologies with innovative storytelling and immersive learning.
With offices in the UK, the US (Orlando), China (Shanghai), the UAE (Abu Dhabi) and Saudi Arabia (Riyadh), Holovis solutions are created by their global teams of specialist engineers, developers, creatives, producers, data scientists and project managers.
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