One hundred and fifty-five events-and-celebrations firms across six sub-sectors; venues carry half — 77 spaces including hotel function rooms, eleven parish churches, and nine community centres. Wedding work is the connective thread: 45 firms trade on it — nine florists, seven venues, five caterers, five celebrants. —
59 organisations are counted with Events & Celebrations as their primary sector — 2% of everything with a sector on record, and the 15th largest of 16. An estimated 89% of the sector is counted, measured against an independent listing rather than assumed.
The 198 listed on this page and the 59 counted above are different claims, not a discrepancy: this page lists everyone who works in Events & Celebrations; the census counts those whose primary sector it is.
Seventy-seven venues — hotel function rooms lead, alongside a heritage tier, eleven parish churches, and nine community centres.
Forty-five of 155 events-and-celebrations businesses trade on wedding work — nine florists, seven venues, five caterers, five celebrants.
Eleven event-services firms — five in AV and staging, two in security, plus DJ, first-aid, staffing and civil-protection specialists.
Thirteen hire firms — six in sound-and-lighting, five in AV, four in furniture, and three each in marquees, staging, and portaloos.
Nine planners — the oldest, Bonboniera Occasions, since 1982; three DJs and entertainers, two full-service producers.
Nine acts on the island — weighted toward mobile DJs (four), with two classical performers as the counter-pole.
Tagged in Events & Celebrations but not in one of the sectors above.