Cotton Events + Incentives
Founders
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Incentives, conferences and events produced since 2008
Cotton has produced incentive trips, conferences and events since 2008. That's 1,175 experiences, 56,950 people hosted and 17 countries.
Clarissa Meyer and Elri Mans
Clarissa Meyer and Elri Mans founded Cotton in 2008, and they still run it as its two directors of events and incentives. The business is based in Pretoria and works nationwide.
The founders work directly with clients. Each director has a direct email address and phone number, so a brief goes straight to one of the two people who will plan it, rather than through a general inbox.
Cotton Events + Incentives
Cotton, Events + Incentives is a Pretoria studio that produces high-end incentives, conferences, events and digital experiences for clients across South Africa. It was established in 2008 and works to the line "Your imagination, our reality".
The work is organised into four services. Incentives are trips and rewards for clients and teams. Conferences are built around focused content and well-made rooms, with no "death by PowerPoint". Events run from small gatherings to large productions. Digital covers online and hybrid experiences that carry the feel of a live occasion to the screen.
Behind those four sit twelve disciplines that one team handles from first idea to the last day on site. They are concept development, destination and venue sourcing and bookings, budget management, invitations and RSVP management, food and drink, space and decor design, event stationery, corporate gifts, live entertainment with MCs and speakers, sound, audio, visual and stage production, travel logistics including flights and transfers, and on-site project management. The studio's line for the stationery is "if it's printed, we do it".
Cotton has delivered 1,175 experiences, hosted 56,950 people, boarded 733 flights and worked in 17 countries, with more than fifteen years in event production. Past projects are collected in a section called On the Books.
The studio is on Instagram as cotton.events.incentives and on Facebook.
Cotton suits companies that want one team to plan and run a conference, a launch, a staff celebration or an incentive trip, in South Africa or abroad. To start, write to clarissa@cottonevents.co.za or elri@cottonevents.co.za with a brief.