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Events 27 maltatoday, Sunday, 29 March 2015 Design Hub Malta takes on two restaurant projects Salt is a newly fully refurbished restaurant located on Pioneer Road, Bugibba offering a delectable a la carte menu. The existing restaurant was a steak house, which had a particular décor that needed changing for new client aspirations. The client requested to have the restaurant called Salt and leave the rest to Sean Cassar, lead designer and owner of Design Hub Malta. Design Hub Malta was contracted to create the logo together with brand establishment, exterior and interior design including custom built furniture and fittings. Design Hub Malta's first priority as a company is to deliver aestheti- cally pleasing, functional, afford- able interior and exterior design solutions. Both local and foreign clients are welcome to a selection of design packages dependent on the client's intentions budgets and briefs. These may range from building a property from scratch and taking it to the fi- nal design stages, or simply, re-de- signing one particular room within an existing space. Steered by varied clients' aspira- tions, as well as their widespread ex- periences, the firm designs exteriors and interiors, which allow clients to fully express what they are about and what holds meaning to them. Catering establishment concepts and designs are offered to customers as a package. The package includes creating the concept logo and brand identity dependant as per client's re- quirements. The exterior and inte- rior design and space allocation are also determined, benefitting from a holistic brand design approach. We decided to focus creativity and concept on the curious pink Hima- layan and black lava salt varieties. This particular concept features within the brand establishment, exterior and interior design of the whole space. There are many dif- ferent quirky features that depicts both the salt in its solid, course and molecular state. One will figure them out dependent on where they are seated within the space whilst enjoying a totally different concep- tual experience and view. Restaurant features a reception area, bar, wine cellar, lounge area, fixed seating areas, enclosed private dining and a mezzanine VIP dining area and more. Another project was Tosca, an ex- isting restaurant running from the Solana Hotel Mellieha. The food was always held to very high stand- ards, exploring new twists within the mouth-watering Italian cuisine. A couple of months back, the inte- rior lacked a coherent concept and ambience. Sean Cassar, lead design- er and owner of Design Hub Malta was contracted to re-design the logo, create a new corporate iden- tity for the same name 'Tosca' and follow through with the interior and exterior design including all custom furniture and fittings. The newly re-structured design incorporates a healthy selection of fixed seating and loose seating op- tions. Areas may give groups or couple an increased sense of privacy and a different experiences on re- turn visits. The proposed design also address- es the open glass kitchen, relating it to the bar and wine storage feature area. Specific materials were used in the space to bring tribute the era of Tosca. Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January, 1900. Within the logo, corporate brand- ing, menu and interior design dif- ferent materials and styles are used to emit a particular aura within the space, whilst not being too clichéd. Express Trailers is announcing fur- ther growth to its vast network of European hubs with a new hub in Birmingham in the UK to where is will start operating a new weekly road freight service. This new development was made possible thanks to a partnership agreement with Sheldon Clayton Logistic Group. Based in West Bro- mwich, Sheldon Clayton Logistics offer complete multimodal logistics services including pallet storage, transport, groupage services and freight forwarding. The company, established 35 years ago also sup- plies cost-effective distribution and warehousing services. "The UK is one of our strongest markets and this new collaboration with Sheldon Clayton Logistics will support our growing business in the UK's Midlands region. Besides keep- ing costs stable, this new collabora- tion should help Maltese importers and exporters work closer with their clients and help them achieve faster collection and delivery times. We also hope this development will lead to more new business opportunities for our clients and also for Sheldon Clayton's customers who want to strengthen their groupage activity to Malta and the neighbouring re- gions," said David Fleri Soler, Mar- keting & Business Development Manager at Express Trailers. David Fleri Soler thanked Antoine Vella, Head of International Opera- tions and Steve Coldicott, Offshore Director from Sheldon Clayton Lo- gistics who were instrumental in setting up this partnership. Sheldon Clayton Logistics enjoys an excellent reach across all the Midland area and operates daily connections to Ireland, Scotland and other islands. We felt this com- plemented our existing UK network in the Manchester and London ar- eas. "At Sheldon Clayton we are very delighted with this new collabora- tion with Express Trailers in Malta and we are looking forward to share our logistical experence for the ben- efit of both our growing customer base," said Steve Coldicott on behalf of Sheldon Clayton Logistics. "With over 35 years of trading experience, Sheldon Clayton Lo- gistic shares the same philosophy and passion for logistics and our commitment seeks to maintain the highest possible standards across all our services," added Mr Coldicott. The new collaboration between Express Trailers and Sheldon Clay- ton will enter into effect on the 1st April. Customers may request more information by email on sales@ex- pressgroup.com ROCS and OZONE have just signed an agreement embarking on a long term plan to integrate all differ- ent offices / retail outlets in Malta, Libya and Yemen onto one platform, incorpo- rating the best of what cloud communications solutions can offer. Incorporating more than 16 years of experience in building IT infrastructure along with a suite of sophis- ticated Wireless Voice and Data equipment, OZONE network has been built spe- cifically to allow companies to do what you do best, run their business. OZONE leverages this network to deliver solutions that are among the most recent and advanced in the Telecoms industry. From VLAN, WLAN, Wi-Fi to SIP Voice to our investment in people, we deploy our range of products and services to make sure you always experience the best in class. Telecommunications is an impor- tant tool for businesses, it enables companies to communicate effec- tively with customers and deliver high standards of customer service. Robert Runza Chief Executive Of- ficer at Ozone Ltd said, "We have been collaborating with ROCS Group for a good number of years now and are very pleased that ROCS Group have entrusted Ozone Ltd. to handle their long term plan of inte- grating and consolidating commu- nication services across the group. "Ozone's unified communications cloud platform will help simplify the proliferation of everyday technolo- gies bringing to the Group's several offices and outlets based locally and abroad audio, web and video confer- encing, unified messaging, instant messaging, presence, and more. In- tegrating voice, video, and data will enable users to communicate and enjoy collaboration in real time." Runza added, "ROCS Group like Ozone is a forward looking com- pany that take advantage of lat- est technologies to maximize the potential of their work force." Colin Aquilina Head of Finance & Business De- velopment at the ROCS Group commented, "It is with great pleasure that ROCS is hereby ap- pointing Ozone as the official communications partner. Ozone has been handling our internal communications since 2007. As you can imag- ine our requirements are quite hefty both in terms of traffic and quality. This is why we have chosen Ozone – a one stop solution, based on the latest cloud technology connecting our various offices and retail outlets in Malta, Libya and Yemen." He continued by saying, "We be- lieve that this choice is a step in the right direction through which ROCS will benefit from a digital platform which is financially fea- sible, reliable, flexible and offering top notch quality." For more information, you can visit ROCS Travel offices in Flo- riana or Mellieha, call ROCS on 20151515, check out our website www.rocsholidays.com or email di- rectly on travel@rocsgrp.com. You can find us on facebook – ROCS Group.*terms and conditions apply Express Trailers strengthens UK service with new Birmingham depot ROCS appoints OZONE as corporate communications partner As a closing event of the winter season, in cooperation with Caro- line Navarro, Sales & Marketing Manager of Grand Harbour Mari- na, Charles Grech sponsored a golf tournament at Royal Malta Golf Club. The tournament participants counted a high number of yacht captains and their crew who had an exceptional day at the courts as well as at the ceremonial prize giv- ing event afterwards. The event was perfectly matched with Mouton Cadet Bordeaux wines that internationally spon- sor the highly prestigious Ryder Cup Golf Tournaments. In line for this event Charles Grech launched this very special edition of 'Mouton Cadet Ryder Cup' and gifted to all respective winners and captains. Very limited stock of Mouton Ca- det Ryder Cup is still available at Charles Grech Wine Boutiques (B'Kara, Sliema, Taxbiex, Valletta , Ibragg and Bugibba) Charles Grech & Mouton Cadet sponsor yachters' golf tournament at the Royal Malta Golf Club Sealing the agreement: Robert Runza and Colin Aquilina