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DISTREE EMEA 2015 will host a record number of senior executives and buyers from top retailers and e-tailers. DISTREE EMEA, which takes place in Monaco from February 24th to 27th, offers technology and consumer electronics brands a unique opportunity to pre-schedule one-on-one meetings with retailers and e-tailers looking to expand their product portfolio, identify new suppliers and place orders.
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Consumer technology: a trillion dollar market?
This year’s International CES event in Las Vegas kicked off with the traditional analysis of global market statistics and trends. Steve Koenig, director of industry analysis at CEA claimed that global consumer technology spending hit US$1.024 trillion in 2014. While it is always nice to come up with a value for the global market size, it is also important to recognise the limitations of the data available and understand that some degree of estimation may be inevitable.
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INTERVIEW: Holger Knöpke, Deutsche Telekom
Holger Knöpke is head of connected home at Deutsche Telekom and is one of the driving forces behind the company’s QIVICON smart home project. QIVICON is an alliance of companies, initiated by Deutsche Telekom, with the aim of promoting the field of smart home technology and providing solutions for customers on a multi-manufacturer basis. Knöpke gave Channel EMEA some insight on what to expect in the smart home space in the years ahead.
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DISTREE Russia & CIS 2014: Q&A with Frederic Simard
DISTREE Russia & CIS provides vendors and distributors of technology products and solutions with a unique opportunity to pre-schedule one-on-one meetings with the region’s leading channel partners. Ahead of this year’s eleventh annual event, Frederic Simard, Director & Co-Founder at DISTREE Events, took part in a Q&A session with Channel EMEA to discuss the format of the event and what new developments delegates will benefit from in 2014.
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Africa Channel Academy: 2014 Awards - WINNERS
DISTREE Africa 2014 hosted the ‘Africa Channel Academy: 2014 Awards’ Gala Dinner and live voting ceremony on Friday June 20th. Channel partners operating in African ICT and consumer electronics (CE) markets used a live electronic voting system to select an overall winner in each category.
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Inaugural DISTREE Africa unites ICT & CE vendors with channel partners from across region
The inaugural DISTREE Africa event is now underway, bringing the successful DISTREE Events’ format to the continent for the first time. The carefully structured event format gives ICT and consumer electronics (CE) brands the opportunity to pre-schedule a series of one-on-one meetings with leading distributors, resellers and retailers from across the region.
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Russian channel eyes SMB growth potential
A recent survey conducted by DISTREE Events has found that 62% of ICT resellers and retailers operating in Russia expect their sales to small and medium business (SMB) customers to increase in 2014. The survey was conducted ahead of this month’s DISTREE Russia & CIS channel event, taking place in St. Petersburg from June 24th to 26th.
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MERA 2014 AWARDS: Retailer & individual winners
The seventh annual Middle East Retail Academy (MERA) Awards Gala Dinner took place on Wednesday 21st May in conjunction with DISTREE Middle East. The ICT and consumer electronics (CE) channel event was held at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi. Hundreds of senior vendor, distributor and retail channel executives attended the Gala Dinner.
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MERA 2014 AWARDS: Vendor & distributor winners
The seventh annual Middle East Retail Academy (MERA) Awards Gala Dinner took place on Wednesday 21st May 2014 in conjunction with DISTREE Middle East. The ICT and consumer electronics (CE) channel event was held at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi. Hundreds of senior vendor, distributor and retail channel executives attended the Gala Dinner.
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DISTREE Middle East announces MERA 2014 Awards nominees
DISTREE Middle East has announced the full list of nominated companies for the ‘Middle East Retail Academy (MERA): 2014 Awards’, which are taking place in conjunction with this year’s regional technology and electronics retail channel event. Farouk Hemraj, CEO at DISTREE Events, commented: “We congratulate all the nominated companies for this year’s MERA Awards."
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