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Avenir Telecom will showcase its portfolio of products to hundreds to retailers and e-tailers at next week’s DISTREE Middle East consumer tech channel event in Dubai. Avenir Telecom creates and distributes under licence with Energizer - a battery products leader - a full range of mobile phones, smartphones and mobile accessories.
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Lime Concepts eyes new retail channels
Fast-growing UAE-based consumer tech distributor Lime Concepts plans to further extend its retail channel reach. Lime Concepts is participating at next week’s DISTREE Middle East tech channel event in Dubai. With 190 tech retail executives from more than 20 countries already confirmed to attend, the event is a powerful opportunity for vendors and distributors to meet existing and potential new channel customers face-to-face. As a Gold Sponsor for DISTREE Middle East 2017, Lime Concepts will promote its growing portfolio of brands to retail buyers from across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.
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Middle East e-tailer JadoPado has been acquired by a ‘large regional business’. The deal was announced in a blog post by JadoPado founder Omar Kassim. The identity of the acquirer has not been revealed. The acquisition of Souq.com by Amazon earlier this year raised interest in the potential of e-commerce in the Middle East, with a wide range of major business now looking to position themselves for future growth opportunities.
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DISTREE Middle East 2017 workshops to cover consumer tech market developments and e-commerce trends
DISTREE Middle East has confirmed the line-up of workshops and small group sessions at this year’s consumer technology retail channel event. The sessions form part of an extensive conference programme that runs alongside the main exhibition and pre-scheduled meetings between consumer tech suppliers and trade buyers that take place at the event.
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Badgy confirmed for DISTREE Middle East
Plastic card printer brand Badgy, part of the Evolis Group, is ready to expand its channel reach into the Middle East in 2017. Badgy will attend DISTREE Middle East, which takes place in Dubai on May 8-10th. The event will give the Badgy team the ability to pre-schedule one-on-one meetings with a range of retailers, resellers, sub-distributors and trading houses capable of taking its products to market in the wider Middle East region.
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Tech retailers, e-tailers and marketplaces from 20-plus countries confirmed for DISTREE Middle East
More than 160 senior executives from retailers, e-tailers and online marketplaces have already confirmed their participation at DISTREE Middle East, which takes place from May 8-10th at the Meydan Hotel in Dubai. The three-day event allows consumer tech vendors and brands to showcase their portfolio and pre-schedule one-on-one meetings with retail channel executives from across the wider Middle East region.
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Gearkom to meet top tech retailers at DISTREE Middle East
Leading consumer tech retail distributors are participating at next month’s DISTREE Middle East to showcase their portfolios to hundreds of senior retail channel executives. Dubai-based Gearkom, which has now been operating for six years, will pre-schedule one-on-one meetings with retail and and e-tail executives at the event. Gearkom currently represents four brands in the region: Aiino, HyperX, Rivacase and Sandberg.
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Azur Digital, CONTEXT and GfK keynote topics confirmed for DISTREE Middle East 2017 in Dubai
DISTREE Middle East 2017 will include a packed conference programme comprising keynote presentations, workshops, VIP sessions and panel discussions. E-commerce models in the Middle East, omnichannel strategies and changing consumer behaviour will all be covered during keynote presentations at regional consumer tech channel event.
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CMS Distribution boosts 2016 sales
Storit Limited, the holding company of CMS Distribution, has reported record revenues in 2016 with sales up 82% year-on-year to £325m (US$417m). In April 2016, CMS Distribution acquired Widget. Frank Salmon, founder and CEO of CMS Distribution, said: “The Widget business was integrated into CMS Distribution in August 2016, as part of our ongoing strategy of bringing companies together to leverage strengths and synergies. We are very excited with the future potential of this acquisition and its impact on the group’s financials.”
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MMD, the Asia Pacific brand licensing partner of AOC and AGON, has appointed Dubai-based distributor SDC to market the AGON range of gaming monitors and AOC’s premium range of monitors across the GCC. Sameh Gamal, business development manager at AOC in Middle East and Africa, said: “It is our pleasure to partner with SDC. Their experience in gaming market with various other leading brands and network of resellers convinced us that they will play a key role in increasing the presence of the AOC brand in the region.”
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