About Us

Exclusive Ballooning, established in 1999, is the leading aerial marketing specialist in Europe, if not the World. We now operate balloons for clients in over 30 countries spread over every continent. In 2007 Exclusive Ballooning consolidate their position by acquiring the Aerial Display Company which was established in 1987.

Operations Director Andrew Holly has won over 350 ballooning trophies including a World Grand Prix silver medal, various International gold medals and ten years undefeated in the UK counties challenge competition.

You will benefit from our unrivalled enthusiasm, creativity and wealth of media experience.

Our carefully selected pilots are not only the very best in the world, they are also fully media trained, for instance, 7 client name checks in one 13 second live National TV response.

Never over budget, results always surpass client expectations.

Our recent successes include:

• Successfully navigating a hot air balloon UNDER Tower Bridge for Disney Pixar
• Helping to raise almost £5 million for charity using hot air balloons as the tool for fundraising
• Generating publicity for clients in the UK, Europe and further afield
  
• Making the front pages of newspapers in three continents including the China Times
• Our competition team have won over 350 trophies and medals and has represented Great Britain at the European and World Championships, the World Balloon Trophy and the avaiation equivalent of the Olympic Games  - The World Air Games
• Getting a clients' balloon onto the BBC News World homepage for 34 hours during which time the page received a staggering 46,000,000 hits
• Recent major media accreditations include a one hour special - Richard Branson's rebel Billionaire; ITV Guinness World Records show; GMTV; MTV Asia; Sky; BBC News 24; BBC online World News homepage and BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans' Drivetime show; and,
• Getting our client's balloons into Red Square, the steps of Sydney Opera House, the Coliseum - Rome, the Atomium, Brussels, OVER Niagara Falls, alongside the great wall of China, in front of Taipei 101 (World's tallest building), the lawn of Canberra's parliament building, Vineria Reale - Turin, Wembley Stadium, Edinburgh Castle, under and over Tower Bridge and the only company ever to tether a balloon inside Disneyland Paris - on the steps of the fairytale castle...;

Significant historical successes for the Aerial Display Company include...

• Successful campaign to claim the absolute World altitude record for Hot Air Balloons set by Per Lindstrand in an historic flight to 65,000 feet over Laredo, Texas
• The instigation and completion of the Daily Express sponsored London to Paris Hot Air Balloon race
• The first flight by Hot Air Balloon over Mount Everest for Star Micronics
• First flights over Niagara and Tower Bridge by Balloon in the FT special shape.