Stageco

Stageco
Name	Stageco
Industry	Entertainment production
Founded	1986
Founder	???
Headquarters	Brussels, Belgium
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Temporary stages, touring stages, rigging systems

Stageco

Stageco is a Belgian company specializing in temporary stage systems, touring structures, and event engineering for live music, festivals, television, and large-scale ceremonies. The firm has supplied platforms, roof systems, and integrated production infrastructure to global tours, major festivals, and broadcast events, operating across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australasia. Its work intersects with prominent promoters, producers, artists, and venues, delivering solutions that combine modular design, heavy lifting, and integrated technical provision.

History

Founded in the mid-1980s in Brussels, the company grew alongside the expansion of international touring and the festival circuit, responding to demand from acts and organizations such as U2, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay and Radiohead. Over the 1990s and 2000s it expanded operations to service productions associated with Glastonbury Festival, Rock am Ring, Roskilde Festival, Lollapalooza, and Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Strategic partnerships and contract wins with concert promoters and production houses like Live Nation Entertainment, AEG Presents, SFX Entertainment, and Clear Channel facilitated international tours and stadium residencies for artists including Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, and Metallica. Collaboration on televised shows and ceremonies connected the firm to broadcasters and events such as BBC, ITV, MTV Video Music Awards, Grammy Awards, and Eurovision Song Contest. The company’s footprint also extended to sporting ceremonies and national celebrations, linking projects to organizations including IOC, FIFA, and various municipal governments.

Products and Services

The company offers modular stage decks, roof systems, rigging frames, truck-based touring stages, and bespoke stage architecture used by production designers, tour managers, and venue operators. Its product lineup supports load-in and load-out logistics for touring artists, festival site integration for production teams, and turnkey delivery for televised events with lighting, sound, and video interfaces. Clients in the corporate event sector and cultural institutions—such as Olympic opening ceremonies, World Expo, Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Stadium and national theatres—have engaged the company for temporary structures and site engineering. Ancillary services include transport planning, crane coordination, staging supervision, and liaison with local authorities and unions such as IATSE and national equivalents.

Notable Projects and Clients

The firm’s portfolio includes supply and engineering for arena and stadium tours for acts like AC/DC, U2, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Rihanna, KISS, Guns N' Roses, and Adele. Festival clients listed among its references include Glastonbury Festival, Download Festival, Isle of Wight Festival, Tomorrowland, Sziget Festival, and Reading and Leeds Festivals. Broadcast and televised commissions have connected it to productions for BBC Proms, Eurovision Song Contest, and major awards shows such as the BRIT Awards. The company has provided systems for corporate launches and brand activations for multinational companies and automotive shows, linking projects to entities like Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Apple Inc., and Microsoft. Civic and sports staging included work on ceremonies associated with European Capital of Culture, national commemorations, and municipal festivals produced by city administrations such as City of Brussels and other European capitals.

Technology and Engineering

Stage systems produced by the company integrate aluminium and steel trusswork, modular decking, and bespoke fabric roofs engineered to withstand dynamic loading from wind, snow, and crowd movement. In-house engineering teams collaborate with structural engineers, wind consultants, and certification bodies to model load paths and dynamic response for touring rigs used by acts like Pink and U2. The company adopts digital tools and CAD software compatible with production design workflows used by firms like Foster + Partners and theatrical design houses, and coordinates with suppliers of lifting equipment such as Mammoet, Liebherr, and Konecranes. Innovations in rapid deployment truck stages and hybrid roof systems have supported logistics for worldwide tours with compressed schedules, aligning with the operational needs of promoters such as Live Nation Entertainment and AEG Presents.

Safety and Standards

Compliance with national standards and international guidelines underpins the company’s operations: engineering adheres to Eurocodes, national building regulations, and industry best practice promulgated by groups like TISG and international federations of event safety professionals. The firm works closely with certification bodies and testing laboratories and coordinates with unions including IATSE and regional equivalents to ensure safe working practices during load-in, show, and strike. Risk assessments and method statements are prepared for each project, and the company implements inspection regimes for scaffolding, rigging, lifting gear, and fall protection equipment supplied by manufacturers such as Petzl and 3M.

Corporate Structure and Operations

Operating from headquarters in Brussels with regional offices and yard facilities across Europe and temporary bases deployed worldwide, the company organizes teams for pre-production, logistics, engineering, and onsite supervision. Its client relationships span major promoters, tour managers, festival bookers, broadcasters, and corporate event divisions; contracts are typically negotiated with production companies, artist management firms, and venue operators such as Madison Square Garden, The O2 (London), and municipal stadium authorities. Fleet management, asset tracking, and inventory control integrate with transport partners and freight forwarders like DHL, Kuehne + Nagel, and specialist event hauliers to coordinate international moves and customs clearance.

Awards and Recognition

The company and its projects have received industry recognition and supplier awards from festival organizers, tour production publications, and trade bodies within the live events sector. Accolades and shortlistings have appeared in industry forums and awards ceremonies alongside peers and collaborators such as PLASA, Live Design International, and trade publications that cover touring and festival production. Category:Entertainment companies of Belgium