{"id":2008331,"date":"2025-09-09T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2008331"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:15:09","slug":"umg-veteran-launches-haffenden-co-events-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/umg-veteran-launches-haffenden-co-events-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"UMG veteran launches Haffenden &#038; Co events firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-249302\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>Organising more than 20 Brit Awards after-parties for the world\u2019s biggest major label is quite the feat. Now Claire Haffenden is putting her experience to work for a wider range of clients with her new firm <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/haffendenandco.com\/\">Haffenden &amp; Co<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haffenden was Universal Music U\u2019s director of artist relations and events for more than 29 years until leaving the company in April this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her new venture will operate across event production, artist liaison, brand partnerships, hospitality and VIP management for a range of clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe creative landscape is shifting, and there\u2019s a growing need for a more flexible, personal service that\u2019s deeply in tune with individual needs,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s a major brand activation, artist launch, executive gathering, or a private celebration, we deliver every detail to the highest standard, with discretion, care, clarity and purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new company is launching armed with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/haffendenandco.com\/#testimonials\">testimonials<\/a> from  artists including Sheryl Crow and Enrique Iglesias, as well as former Universal execs David Joseph, Selina Webb and Darcus Beese.<\/p>\n\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section>\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organising more than 20 Brit Awards after-parties for the world\u2019s biggest major label is quite the feat. Now Claire Haffenden is putting her experience to work for a wider range of clients with her new firm Haffenden &amp; Co. Haffenden was Universal Music U\u2019s director of artist relations and events for more than 29 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2008332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[324888],"class_list":["post-2008331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-startups"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/UMG-veteran-launches-Haffenden-Co-events-firm.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}