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The 16th annual DISTREE Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) event will take place at the luxurious Fairmont Hotel in Monaco on 6th to 9th February 2018. DISTREE EMEA is a premium hosted buyer event, giving consumer tech brands access to 400 senior executives, representing 350 consumer tech distributors from 50-plus countries within the EMEA region.
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Barracuda teams with CMS for MSP push
Barracuda Networks, a provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions, has entered into a new agreement with CMS Distribution to expand UK & Ireland channel relationships and bring more managed service providers (MSPs) into Barracuda’s partner programme. Barracuda’s MSP channel development strategy is to deliver value to managed service partners and their SMB customers through award-winning technology and 24x7 monitoring and management professional services.
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Panasonic signs pan-EMEA deal with Nuvias
Panasonic Business has appointed Nuvias as its first pan-EMEA distributor for its range of business IP phone handsets. The initial roll-out will focus on established markets for Nuvias, including the UK, Benelux, Germany and France, along with Southern Europe and the Nordics. Nuvias will act as a high value distributor for the full range of Panasonic IP handsets. This comprises desktop phones, and both single cell and multi-cell DECT solutions, for use within cloud-based UC environments, including BroadSoft.
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ASSMANN confirmed for DISTREE APAC
ASSMANN Group has confirmed that it will exhibit at DISTREE Asia-Pacific (APAC) 2017, which takes place in Singapore from November 8-10th. The fifth annual DISTREE APAC regional channel event gives consumer technology vendors and brand owners the opportunity to hold pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with APAC’s leading distributors, plus senior executives from some of the region’s top retailers and e-tailers. ASSMANN will use the event to promote its ednet retail brand.
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Tech Data expands Docker rights in Europe
Distribution giant Tech Data’s technology solutions business, formerly a division of Avnet, has extended its distribution agreement with Docker, to deliver their enterprise edition (EE) offering across a wider European footprint. The extended footprint includes Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, as well as the East region countries where it operates, including Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, and the Adriatic region.
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INTERVIEW: Evgeniy Zaitsev, PocketBook
Asia-Pacific (APAC) has been identified as a target market for PocketBook’s business expansion in 2017. The company, which provides e-reading devices and business-to-business (B2B) solutions for e-book commerce, will participate at DISTREE APAC in Singapore this November. The event gives tech brands a unique opportunity to meet senior executives from top tech distributors and channel partners from 20-plus countries in the region. Channel APAC caught up with Evgeniy Zaitsev, VP sales and marketing at PocketBook, to get the lowdown on the company’s plans.
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Ingram Micro adds GFI Software rights in MEA
Distributor Ingram Micro has signed a Middle East and Africa (MEA) distribution deal with secutity and communications software provider GFI Software. Building on its existing relationship with GFI Software in Turkey and Australia, this new agreement will allow Ingram Micro to distribute GFI’s complete range of IT solutions to channel partners in 17 additional countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen.
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Kingston appoints Brightstar in India
Memory products vendor Kingston Technology has appointed Brightstar Telecommunication as a national distributor for its flash business in India. Kingston hopes that the agreement will allow it to reinforce its current footprint in India and expand into new market segments. Brightstar has a customer base of more than 5000 channel partners in India.
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Bowers & Wilkins sets up Australian subsidiary
UK-based audio brand Bowers & Wilkins is entering the Australian market. The company has set up a dedicated Australian subsidiary to start marketing and distributing its products from the start of August. Lars Hundborg, Bowers & Wilkins CEO for Asia Pacific, said: “Australia is a key strategic market for Bowers & Wilkins and so we determined that the best way to service the Australian consumer and support our existing dealers would be to establish direct operations in the country.”
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PocketBook targets APAC expansion
PocketBook has confirmed its participation at DISTREE Asia Pacific (APAC) 2017. Pocketbook offers OEM and ODM business solutions for e-reading including devices, reading apps, cloud platforms for partners, plus full technical and service support. DISTREE APAC 2017, which takes place in Singapore on November 8-10th, will give the Pocketbook team the chance to hold pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with APAC’s leading distributors, plus senior executives from some of the region’s top retailers and e-tailers.
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