Samsung Electronics has changed the account management structure of its UK and Ireland IT business in order to strengthen its reseller engagement strategy. It will create one centralised reseller account management team to be lead by Mark Vatcher, head of reseller partners – IT Division, who joined Samsung in April this year.
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Midwich Limited recently attended the annual Sunday Times Top Track awards in recognition of securing its place for the third year running in the UK’s top 250 independently owned mid-sized companies. The gathering also included Danwood Group, Kelway, Civica and VIP Computer Centre.
AWE Europe has strengthened its sales team with the appointment of Martin Twiss as Area Sales Manager for the Midlands andNorthern territories. Martin joins the team as AWE increases its product offering with several new distribution deals.
Vivitek Corporation has appointed Beta Distribution to distribute the Vivitek projectors suited for the office equipment sales channel. Vivitek offers a variety of products in different brightness and resolution categories, including the innovative Qumi pocket projector, which is now available with a 5-year warranty for the educational market.
BenQ’s implementation Philips ImageCare technology on the DLP platform has been doing the rounds of the trade shows for the best part of a year. To give credit where it’s due, BenQ is the first vendor of DLP projectors to bring a version of ImageCare to market and as such hopes to have a six month advantage over its competitors.
SMART Technologies has launched a new SMART Reseller Accreditation Programme in the UK. SMART says the programme has been developed to enhance the sales and technical competencies of SMART’s resellers who are focused on sales to business customers. The accreditation programme is a global initiative allowing for deployment through a network of accredited resellers, so enterprise companies with offices in different markets can be assured of the same level of service in all locations.
The UK’s National Maritime Museum has marked the opening of its new £36.5m Sammy Ofer Wing, with the installation of ‘Voyagers – a permanent gallery dedicated to helping visitors gain a richer understanding of Britain’s maritime heritage. Electrosonic was selected by the museum to supply, install, commission and provide warranties for the audio-visual hardware.
Worldwide Olympic Partner, Panasonic has already started supplying and installing huge 33.6m² ultra bright outdoor LED screens for the London 2012 Olympic Games countdown events taking place at London’s Trafalgar Square. Since the two year and one year to go proceedings, Panasonic has continued its support by supplying scores of huge screens ranging in size from 14m² to 52m² for the London Prepares test event series that feature exciting sports ranging from BMX and basketball to hockey and beach volleyball.
True Colours Distribution has added Atlona Technologies’ new 8×8 and 16×16 high-speed HDMI matrix switchers to its portfolio, together with TV One’s CORIO3 range of products. Atlona’s AT-PRO2HD88M and AT-PRO2HD1616M feature HDBaseT technology. The switchers extend HDMI sources, including full uncompressed HD video and audio, up to 330 feet at 1080p resolution over a single Cat 5/6/7 cable.
Magenta Research has named Vincent Juchniewicz General Manager. Juchniewicz has a track record of engineering and operations-related service, joining Magenta from the M.H. Rhodes/Cramer Company – a manufacturing firm where he served as VP of operations.