Connecting engineering and technical companies with the media couldn’t be simpler.

Steph Osborn, Head of PR

Sage UK

Client reviews

“The First Friday Editor Briefings are the best opportunity to communicate and influence the manufacturing, engineering and industrial sector. The events are meticulously organised to ensure editors receive the most relevant and newsworthy information, guaranteeing that their attendance is worthwhile time and again. The team are a pleasure to work with and I am sure we will be participating again for a third time.”

Charlotte Stonestreet, Managing Editor

Western Business Media

“Throughout the year, the First Friday Club events always feature highly relevant companies talking about a range of interesting and topical subjects. Attending editors benefit not only from gaining knowledge about important new products and services in the industrial sector, but they also have the opportunity to network with representatives from presenting companies and form working relationships that continue long after the event. A stand-out feature is the high calibre of the guest speakers, who are drawn from industry bodies and associations, educational organisations and the like, and always provide the basis for some great copy. A variety of venues and the occasional ‘takeover’, when presentations come from a single company, keep the format fresh. The team at Cadence is also excellent at supplying follow-up material and further information as needed.”

Aaron Blutstein, Managing Editor

Plant & Works Engineering/ Smart Futures

“The First Friday Club is an institution for industrial trade press journalists. I’ve attended for over 15 years and it has been the one place in an ever-changing publishing world I can justifiably say editors want to attend because of the variety of new technologies, news and information gained at each and every event. The relaxed environment culminating in an enjoyable lunch has also helped me to cement many business relationships and create new opportunities to network, benefiting my publications enormously over the years. Although the FFC is legally owned by Cadence its guardians are the editors of each generation who see it as their own event and this for me is why it is so valuable to the industry.”

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Lombard
Weidmuller
Institute of Asset Management
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Variohm
Moog
Guardian Water Treatment
Walenius
The Renewables Event
The Energy Event
IET
BCAS

Sabien
ABB
Gambica Association
Rockwell Automation
Baldor
Emerson
Nexans
SICK
Omron
PILZ Automation
Primary Engineer

EAMA
TR Controls
Schneider Electric
EEF
Primary Engineer Programmes
Midland ACS
iGus
Powervar
Micro Epsilon
Global Sense
Nuclear Institute

Automation
Boards & Solutions
Building Services & Environmental Engineer
Control Engineering Europe
Controls Drives & Automation/Industrial Plant & Equipment
Design Solutions
DPA / PSB
Drives and Controls
EfficientEnergy.net
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Products & Applications
Electrical Review
Electrical Times
Electronics Manufacture & Test
Embedded Control Europe/Boards and Solutions
Energy Engineering
Engineering & Technology
Engineering subcontractor
Eureka
European Design Engineer
MachineBuilding.net
Facilities Management Journal
Factory Equipment and Automation

FAST
Food Processing
Forest Bioenergy Review
HazardEx
Industrial Automation Insider
Industrial Plant & Equipment
Industrial Technology
IP&E (UK)
MachineBuilding.net
Machinery World Journal
Maintenance & Engineering
Metal Bulletin
Metalworking Production
Oil review Middle East
P&CT
Plant & Works Engineering
Process & Control Today (www.PandCT.com)
Process Engineering
Professional Electrician
Professional Electrician & Installer
Quality Manufacturing Today
The Manufacturer
Water, Energy and Environment

“I find the First Friday Club an invaluable source of news and networking opportunities. The companies selected to present always have interesting information to impart, whether it be the launch of a new product or addressing market issues. Guest speakers – such as those from BARA, MAKE UK and The Energy Institute – are a particularly notable element of the First Friday Club and add a further dimension in terms of background knowledge and current thinking.”

Charlotte Stonestreet, Editor

Controls, Drives & Automation

‘The First Friday Club has been a very useful and worthwhile regular event for us for many years now and continues to be with always attracting some of the leading companies and biggest names in our industry. It’s an excellent opportunity to meet many of those key people working for the leading companies and chat to them in-depth about their new products and developments and what they think the future trends for the market are going to be. The presentations by these companies are often carried out by one of their sales engineers so tend to be very knowledgeable, informative and straightforward presentations which we find extremely useful when you’re reporting in a “non-nonsense” way. We will certainly continue to use the FFC as a core means of gaining first hand information on the latest new products.”

Greg Horsley, Editor

Process and Control Today

“First Friday Editors’ Briefings collect together a number of presentations that saves me time while retaining the value of face-to-face meetings, which always yield more interesting and divergent conversations! Also, with the variety of presenting companies there are invariably opportunities for learning something completely new, resulting in broader editorial coverage for our readers. I also enjoy meeting with the FFC team and my peers in the technical press – it’s often the best way of finding out what’s going on in our industry!”

Tim Fryer, Technology Editor

E&T Magazine

“For nearly two decades I have regarded First Friday as a tried and trusted way of putting my engineering clients in front of the media they most need to meet. It’s great for generating coverage in the short term, and even better in the long term for building relationships with editors.”

Andrew Bartlett, Director of Science and Engineering Chart.PR FCIPR C.Eng

Definition – the B2B Growth Agency

“I have always found the First Friday Club a very informative and useful event. The structure of the presentations is always very efficient and there is always plenty of opportunity for networking with the various presenters in the afternoon. For me, the key benefit I have always thought the FFC brought to the press is the multiple presenter format. In this day and age, when everyone is very busy and time is precious, it is so advantageous to be able to attend one event and glean as much information as you would from attending several individual events, thus saving a lot of time. With the FFC you are effectively getting 3/4 press conferences in one – it’s a format that enables us to do our job much more efficiently.”

Joe Bush, Editor

The Manufacturer

“I have been attending the First Friday Club for many years now and I find it it is the best place to network with top people in the industry, gather multiple news stories and save me time when it comes to broadening my contacts.”

Paige West, Managing Editor

Electronic Specifier

Briefings are held on the first Friday of each month at a central London location. Our experienced briefings coordinators are ready to help you reach your target media – get in touch!

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