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UAE ICT and consumer electronics (CE) retailer Jacky’s Electronics is upbeat on the sales potential during this month’s Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF). Jacky’s reckons that an influx of tourists from other GCC states, Russia and India will create the conditions required for sales growth. Jacky’s will offer several promotions to entice shoppers to splash out on products during DSF, which runs until February 3rd.
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Trust outlines multichannel strategy
Digital lifestyle accessories vendor Trust reckons a strategic vision for dealing with e-tail and e-commerce sales has now become a prerequisite for a successful multichannel strategy. Trust is participating at this year’s DISTREE EMEA event in Monaco to meet both existing and potential channel partners to identify new business development opportunities in the region.
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Xmi brings hot sounds from Singapore
Singapore-based Xmi Pte will use this year’s DISTREE EMEA event in Monaco to build routes-to-market across Europe and beyond for its newly-launched Uno and Max products. Xmi is focused on bringing the very latest wave of multimedia products to the global market and aims to create devices that will precede major trends in lifestyle technology.
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Huawei targets consumer device market
Chinese mobile device vendor Huawei has earmarked US$30m for a global consumer branding push, which it is calling ‘ascend to new heights’. The campaign, which is the company’s largest consumer campaign to date, will attempt to build Huawei’s brand equity as a player in the consumer device space. The campaign has been rolled out across 45 markets in 15 regions, including the UAE.
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Samsung meets Saudi channel partners
Hardware giant Samsung met with 200 of its channel partners in Saudi Arabia at two recent meetings held in Riyadh and Jeddah. The events attracted distributors, power retailers and resellers from across the Kingdom and gave the vendor an opportunity to showcase its latest products and devices.
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Urban Factory keeps pace with market innovation
France-based accessories, bags and cases vendor Urban Factory has confirmed its participation at DISTREE EMEA 2013. Established five years ago, Urban Factory remains committed to seeking out new business opportunities by identifying new partners, new markets or developing new product segments. With dedicated products for a wide range of devices – including Galaxy Tabs, iPad Mini and iPhone 5 – Urban Factory is determined to keep up to speed with the latest market developments with a constantly evolving product portfolio.
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G-Form pushes extreme device protection
G-Form’s rapid international channel expansion is all set to continue in 2013 as the company prepares to participate in DISTREE EMEA 2013. G-Form offers extreme protection solutions for smartphones, tablets and laptops using proprietary moulded shapes that provide maximum protection using the company’s reactive protection technology (RPT).
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Escan brand makes its mark in Malaysia
Security software vendor Escan has been recognised as a leading brand in the Malaysia market. Escan was one of the top three brands in the security solutions category in a survey organised by national technology magazine HWM Malaysia and Plaza Low Yat, a leading IT lifestyle mall in Malaysia.
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Darty to seek approval for Italian disposal
European ICT and consumer electronics (CE) retailer Darty will seek shareholder approval to proceed with the disposal of its Italian operations at a meeting scheduled for January 17th 2013. Darty is proposing to hand over its 20 Italian stores, staff and €3m (US$3.9m) cash to electronics retailer DPS. In return Darty would receive a 15% stake in DPS. Darty’s Italian operation has posted more than €100m (US$132m) in cumulative operating losses since 2005.
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Elko adds Hyundai tablets to Russian portfolio
Emerging markets distributor Elko has picked up exclusive wholesaler rights to push Hyundai tablets in the Russian channel. Latvia-based Elko, which operates across the Baltics, Eastern Europe and Russia, struck an exclusive agreement with Blusafir Korea – a specialised Hyundai brand licensing company. Blusafir supplies Korean and Chinese manufactured IT products into the Russian market
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