Ogden Gerard Launches Venueâ„¢ Disaster Recovery/Emergency Response/Emergency Housing Multi-Purpose Vehicle
Business Wire- 11/3/2009 10:15:00 AM EST
Ogden Gerard Launches Venue™ Disaster Recovery/Emergency
Response/Emergency Housing Multi-Purpose Vehicle
( BW)(FL-OGDEN-GERARD-LLC)(.) Ogden Gerard Launches Venue™ Disaster Recovery/Emergency
Response/Emergency Housing Multi-Purpose Vehicle
Venue™ Converts Automatically into up to 2,400 Square Feet of
Customizable, Climate-Controlled Space for Uses That Include Disaster
Recovery, Entertainment, Business Displays, Mobile Emergency Housing and
Light Industrial
Ogden Gerard, LLC announced today the launch of its new multi-purpose
specialty vehicle Venue™ http://www.venuevehicles.com,
an enclosed trailer that converts automatically into up to 2,400 square
feet of customizable, climate-controlled space for applications that
include emergency response, disaster recovery, entertainment, business
displays, emergency housing and light industrial.
Venue™ multi-purpose vehicle can be towed by a fifth wheel style pickup
truck, and will serve a broad range of markets, said Eric Gerard, senior
partner of Ogden
Gerard, based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Buyers are reviewing
Venue™ for use as: Hospitality and entertainment space; command and
communications centers; emergency barracks; emergency housing, emergency
shelters, disaster recovery; business continuity; other emergency
response applications: mobile studios, and trade show exhibits.
"Venue is durable, and its versatility is endless," Gerard said.
"Anything that goes under a roof. Mobile clinics, repair stations,
business training centers, press and broadcast centers, and more. Two
people can fully deploy Venue™ and have it up and running in under two
hours in emergency response situations like disaster recovery and
emergency housing - light years ahead of tents, which Venue™ makes
obsolete for most of these uses."
Ogden Gerard is contracting with sports promoters to represent Venue to
professional and collegiate sports as hospitality centers for sponsors
and teams, Gerard said. Venue's customized
space and high-tech lighting, audio/video systems and custom
graphics is easier to deploy and creates a cleaner, more desirable
atmosphere than hospitality tents, which tend to be smaller and
frequently lack climate control.
Beyond hospitality, Venue™ is being examined by government agencies as mobile
command centers, emergency shelters for disaster recovery, and for
emergency homeless shelters. Business interests with multiple locations
also have expressed interest in converting Venue™ into business
continuity modules to re-establish communications and customer service
in the event of natural disaster or other emergency response situations.
In addition to its self-deploying multi-purpose capability, Venue™ is
also fully self-contained, carrying all of its equipment and furnishings
within the trailer, Gerard said. "In disaster response deployments,
whether it's for emergency shelters or other disaster recovery such as
communications, clinics or command centers, it's critical that all
essential parts arrive together and on time. Venue answers this need
perfectly.
"Customers from corporate sponsor hospitality users to first responders
and command center users, do not have to worry if their secondary
shipments and equipment will arrive on time," Gerard said. "When Venue™
arrives at a scene, whether it's disaster response, a sports event or a
for a trade show exhibit, it has everything it needs to get up and
running immediately."
Ogden Gerard also is entering discussions with a number of community and
philanthropic organizations to offer Venue as emergency shelters for the
growing homeless crisis. This type of emergency response allows the
agency to move Venue to where the emergency housing situation exists,
rather than try to move the population to a static location that may be
impossible to reach.
Venue will be manufactured exclusively by Frontline
Communications, based in Clearwater, Florida, and a division of
Oshkosh Corp. (NYSE: OSK).
"We are thrilled to have Frontline on board as Venue's manufacturer,"
Gerard said. "Frontline has built and delivered over 1,000 broadcast,
communications and command vehicles all over the globe, and are leaders
in their field."
To learn more about Ogden Gerard, LLC and Venue™, visit http://www.venuevehicles.com/.
Ogden Gerard, LLC is the developer and exclusive dealership for Venue™
multi-purpose vehicles.
CONTACT:
Ogden Gerard, LLC
Eric Gerard, 800-275-1711 ext. 100
eric.gerard@ogdengerard.com
or
Scott
Ogden, 800-275-1711 ext. 200
scott.ogden@ogdengerard.com
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