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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DISTREE Middle East 2014 to host wide variety of Retail Academy workshop sessions
DISTREE Middle East has confirmed the line-up of Retail Academy workshop sessions taking place at next week’s channel event. Topics covered include iBeacon technology, the growth of wearables and changes in Middle East consumer purchasing patterns. A total of nine Retail Academy sessions will take place, giving delegates access to a wide range of consultants, analysts and research houses. DISTREE Middle East takes place in Abu Dhabi from May 20th to 22nd 2014.
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DISTREE Africa to deliver powerful exhibitor mix
DISTREE Africa 2014 will unite a broad cross-section of technology and electronics vendors focused on developing and managing both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) channels. Major distributors have also confirmed their participation at DISTREE Africa, using the event as a platform for three days of pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with senior executives and buyers from the continent’s top resellers and retailers.
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Middle East Retail Academy (MERA) launches new award categories ahead of DISTREE Middle East 2014
The Middle East Retail Academy (MERA) has announced that its 2014 awards will include four submission-based categories, including two brand new awards. All entries will be assessed by a VIP Jury of retail channel experts, with the overall winner in each category announced at the ‘MERA: 2014 Awards’ Gala Dinner held in Abu Dhabi in conjunction with DISTREE Middle East on 21st May 2014.
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