Logitech
Logitech is a leading designer and manufacturer of specialist video conferencing solutions and peripherals, which are designed with a clear focus on user experience and sustainability. With hybrid now the standard model, Logitech ensures that workers are able to perform at their best and collaborate with their teams with confidence, wherever they are. With every product, Logitech aims to improve the experience for employees, enhancing productivity and collaboration. In line with this, it has launched a number of innovative tools this year, powering new ways of working, including an AI-powered headset and video-conferencing bar designed for huddle rooms.
Logitech is a true market leader, having the highest market share for mice, keyboards and webcams in the UK. In EMEA it has the highest market share for traditional and USB video devices (no UK specific data available). In the UK Logitech’s mouse market share grew +5.2% YoY to May ’23. Keyboard market share grew +2.5%, with webcams growing 7.6% to May ’23, now accounting for a massive 77.4% of webcams sold. Logitech knows that effective collaboration requires providing users with high quality audio and visuals not just in the office, but wherever work is happening from, whether that’s at home or on the move. That’s why it launched the most innovate headset on the market, Zone Wireless 2 – an AI-powered headset with two-way noise cancellation.
Vestel
Vestel Visual Solution UK has spearheaded the giant Turkish electronics company’s growth from OEM manufacturer to a major brand name across the UK AV, TV, digital and interactive display markets. Leveraging Vestel’s manufacturing expertise and economies of scale at its 1.3m sqm European manufacturing site, Vestel branded screens offer unrivalled value, reliability and performance. 2023 saw Vestel UK broaden its display and interactive screens range, grow distribution, increase reseller, CMS and integrator partnerships, and host its inaugural Vestel Reseller Awards event. Investing heavily in the UK Vestel is set to become a major force in the UK display industry.
With its European manufacturing facility Vestel offers short lead times from factory to UK customers, local parts, service and support, and an enviable reputation for product reliability. Upgrades across the Vestel display range include high-brightness signage, interactive displays for corporate and education and fast System on Chip processors across the range, all offering exceptional value in markets like corporate, retail and education.
BenQ
BenQ is a global provider of people-driven products and technologies. For over 20 years, BenQ has maintained a consistent presence, evolving across areas that matter the most and have the greatest impact on the enjoyment and quality of life. Their range of consumer-to-consumer products from professional products to interactive displays includes initiatives such as HealthCare+ technology which gives consumers the assurance that BenQ will continue to enhance people’s lives by creating innovative products and solutions. Over the course of the year, BenQ have proved their dedication education and schools up and down the country through their ClassroomCare technologies. With interactive screens becoming more of a fixture in classrooms, and teachers and students increasingly spending more time using them, safeguarding eyesight is crucial.
Education is at the heart of BenQ’s brand and in order to drive this further, BenQ partnered with CENTURY Tech in August, to accelerate learning for pupils across the UK. The partnership enabled CENTURY’s world leading AI-powered teaching and learning platform to be accessible via a bespoke app on BenQ’s interactive displays, providing access to content and resources to save educator time on marking, resource creation and admin. The collaboration also enables educators to gain access to detailed performance data through easy-to-use dashboards that enable them to make timely, targeted interventions, while also promoting agency in learning by providing students with access to their own learning analytics. As well as this, CENTURY helps students improve their scores, gives personalised feedback and allows parents and guardians to see their child’s progression.
Boom
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Austin, TX, Boom Collaboration develops conferencing and collaboration hardware solutions for a wide array of meeting environments. Boom was born by founders Fredrik Hörnkvist and Holli Hulett who have a natural love for collaboration and a strong desire to address both current and future video conferencing trends, through an agile organization that brings innovation to today’s dynamic and diverse meeting room spaces. Boom believes excellent hardware that delivers smooth video and crystal-clear audio brings the world one step closer and helps customers accomplish more together in less time.