Future Ready Solutions (FRS), a distributor of cable and connectivity products, announced this week that it has appointed Lawrence Davis as Vice President of Business Development. Davis has a long career in tech, mostly in sales management for a wide range of prominent brands.
Distributors
Snap One Acquires Canadian Distributor Staub Electronics
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Snap One announced on Thursday that it has acquired Staub Electronics, a distributor based in Canada who has been the Snap One distributor there for ten years as an independent entity. Snap One says this “strategic move” will “elevate [the] partner experience in Canada.”
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[Read more…] about Snap One Acquires Canadian Distributor Staub ElectronicsSnap One Continues Local In-Market Expansion; Adds New Florida ‘Store’
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Snap One announced this week that it has opened another “Partner Store” – a locally based warehouse location – that carries its products as well as other brands and offers support and training for area integrators. This new location opened in Hollywood, Florida, and – interestingly – is being operated by their Allnet branch.
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[Read more…] about Snap One Continues Local In-Market Expansion; Adds New Florida ‘Store’New Vanco Introduction Powers Up Your Assortment, Client Satisfaction & Profits
I recently became aware of the fact that Vanco, the Chicago-based manufacturer of a broad range of mostly accessory products had decided to become a master distributor for a product category that we all need, we all use, and yet to which we pay little attention. It is in this reality, Vanco’s President Mark Corbin tells me, that there lies a tremendous opportunity to better serve our customers and to add meaningful profit to our financials.
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[Read more…] about New Vanco Introduction Powers Up Your Assortment, Client Satisfaction & ProfitsCEDIA Expo Attendee Videos Show Wide Open Aisles, Draped Empty Halls, and Sparse Attendance
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In a post yesterday, I suggested that the evidence seemed pretty clear – this year, attendees would find a very different CEDIA Expo. Today, the opening day of the event has seen a few videos and photos uploaded on Facebook, YouTube and other social media sites which seem to suggest that this is indeed a very different Expo.
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[Read more…] about CEDIA Expo Attendee Videos Show Wide Open Aisles, Draped Empty Halls, and Sparse AttendanceVoxx Announces Final Deal to Acquire Onkyo, with a Twist
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Voxx International has announced that they have finalized their agreement to partner with Sharp Corporation to acquire the Home Entertainment Division of Onkyo – news that Strata-gee readers knew about last week. The news comes as a result of Onkyo shareholders voting last Friday to approve the sale of the company to Voxx’s subsidiary known as the Premium Audio Company. Not much was new here on the Onkyo front, as we already told you about the deal only covering the Onkyo and Integra brands. However, we did learn some more interesting details on the company’s attempts relative to the Pioneer and Pioneer Elite brands.
See what’s happening with Voxx, Onkyo & Pioneer
[Read more…] about Voxx Announces Final Deal to Acquire Onkyo, with a TwistISE 2021 ‘Heralds’ Getting the Industry ‘Back to Business,’ But Did They?
In a press release distributed Wednesday morning, Integrated Systems Events (part of Integrated Systems Europe) announced the conclusion of their annual ISE event, this year in Barcelona, Spain for the first time on June 1-2. It was a hybrid-style event, offering an online or virtual conference as well as an in-person event with exhibitors in the Fira de Barcelona exhibition center. The organizers heralded the event as helping “the industry getting back to business.”
But how successful was the ISE this year? See more…
[Read more…] about ISE 2021 ‘Heralds’ Getting the Industry ‘Back to Business,’ But Did They?SnapAV Takes Preliminary Step Ahead of Registering for Public Offering
In a move that has been widely anticipated for some time now, Wirepath Home Systems LLC, the corporate name for SnapAV, has filed paperwork with the SEC to preliminarily begin the process of registering their stock for sale to the public. We learn little in the rather terse announcement from the company, but many in the industry had expected this day would come for years now.
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[Read more…] about SnapAV Takes Preliminary Step Ahead of Registering for Public OfferingBudding Onkyo & Voxx Romance Grows, Adds Teac & Esoteric to 11 Trading Company
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This week we learned that 11 Trading Company…part of Premium Audio Company…which itself is part of Voxx International (love those big corporate structures), has added the only remaining Onkyo brands – Teac & Esoteric – to their distribution line list. They did not include these brands in the original announcement of their agreement with Onkyo, but most people expected it to be added in time. With this new development we get a nice progression of the budding relationship between the companies – Voxx distributing Onkyo, Integra, Pioneer, Pioneer Elite, Teac & Esoteric – while Onkyo Corp. becomes the Klipsch distributor in Japan. Where could this be heading?
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[Read more…] about Budding Onkyo & Voxx Romance Grows, Adds Teac & Esoteric to 11 Trading CompanyBarely Pausing to Catch Their Breath, Vanco Launches More New Audio Products
Chicago-based Vanco International has recently been releasing new products, especially audio products, at a furious pace. Once again, after barely stopping to catch their breath, the company is introducing five new audio products into their PulseAudio line of affordable, easy-to-integrate products for the residential and commercial markets.