ActionscoresbigatMonacoFCstadium
Timestheyare
a-changin’
AyearagoIwroteinthis
columnpredictingwewere
headingforchallenging
timesandwehad
plannedaccordingly.
Inarockyenvironmenttherisklies
It is said that if at first you don’t succeed, you should try and try again.
inwishfulthinking– thebetterwe
arepreparedthegreaterthe
In this case it may have taken almost eight years, but Action proves
advantage.Ihavebeenopenand
the point that pursuing a job can eventually pay off.
consistent,actionshavealready Action have tendered to the Monaco Stadium managers the advantage of using LED
beentakentoreducecosts,capital screens instead of outdated alphanumeric scoreboards for almost eight years, but
expenditurehasbeenscaledback the managers, having no clear understanding of what the LED screens could display
andourfocusisoncashtoaddto
amid claims that they are too expensive, proved each tender unsuccessful.
ourfinancialstrength.
However Vincent Alloing, head of business development at Action, invited an LED
Thisisatimeforcoolheadsand
screen vendor (Tecnovision LED screens) along to this year’s tender meeting.
firmaction.Allourrolesaretwice
“We took a tour of the stadium where I took a picture of the original OMEGA screen
asimportant,weneedeveryone
in situ. I then created a simulated picture to help the clients imagine what the
tobeeffective,efficientandcare
scoreboard would be like with an LED screen,” remarks Vincent. “This simulated
evenmore. picture was then sent to Prince Albert’s office and he decided to buy two screens to
Theeconomicdownturnmay
enhance the events held at the Louis 2 Stadium.”
havejustbegun,butitwillend; The tender was restricted to LED screen manufacturers only, such as Barco,
andwewillbetheretoseize
Lighthouse, Panasonic and Tecnovision with the proviso that the manufacturer who
theopportunity.
won also had to provide a company to use and maintain the screens. As
Tecnovision won the tender, Action was contracted for this job.
IAN MARTIN
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
As Vincent says “In this business we set clocks to ring but we do not see when it will
ring, sometimes it rings very quickly, sometimes it takes a very long time!”
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