Zurich Global Bollywood Summer Party

After a winning pitch back in February and plenty of hard work from the design, events and marketing teams we finally put on Zurich Global’s Bollywood themed summer party in Zurich this weekend.

The event was named ‘A Taste of Bollywood’ and 180 staff and special guests from Zurich’s head office in Switzerland attended. The event was held at a restaurant and nightclub called Aqua on the shore of Zurichsee (that’s Lake Zurich for non German speakers). It seems a long time ago that we were first designing and sending out the html email invitations and developing the theme of the evening. Since then we have been in liaison with the client and the venue to arrange every detail of the event from communications and entertainment to food and themeing. Our work in promoting the event through posters, emails and even a Bollywood dance class had obviously done its job, as by Friday afternoon the Zurich office was buzzing with anticipation.



After a hard day of setting up the venue to ensure the perfect Bollywood atmosphere, our guests started to arrive. They were greeted by 2 Indian elephants and gifts of scarves and bindis which thrust them straight into the spirit of the evening. Food was provided on site by one of the finest Indian restaurants in the city with mango lasse offering cooling refreshment on a sunny evening.



After dinner it was time for entertainment provided by one of the most popular comedians in Switzerland; we had no idea what he was on about but the Swiss seemed to love it. Then we introduced the 5 dhol drummers we had flown over from the UK to the stage. They made a massive impact with their fast paced modern take on Indian music. A range of Indian desserts was served on the roof terrace and then everyone put on their dancing shoes and headed downstairs to throw some shapes to tunes provided by our London-based Indian DJ.



The last guests left at around 3am and that just left us to take all of our kit out and return the venue to a usable state for breakfast the next morning. So there we were at 6am sat outside the venue with a full truck ready to return to London when, all of sudden, David said:

“I know, let’s go for a swim in the lake”…

A really enjoyable event finished off in a really unusual way. Zurich was great, the people were fantastic and we can’t wait to go back.


Click here to see what the clients had to say and for more pictures: pressrelease.pdf