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Latin America’s premier ICT and consumer electronics (CE) channel event is taking place from September 11-13th 2013 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Leading distributors and retailers from across the region are set to attend the event. Now in its third year, DISTREE Latin America brings hundreds of top distributors and retailers together to meet ICT and consumer electronics (CE) vendors looking to manage, build or launch routes-to-market in Latin America.
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‘EMEA Channel Academy: 2013 Awards’ winners announced at DISTREE EMEA
Fifth annual channel awards ceremony took place in Monaco last week in conjunction with DISTREE EMEA. Ingram Micro and Tech Data picked up two distributor awards apiece, with a new voting system in place for 2013. Live electronic voting by hundreds of retailer and distributor executives saw Microsoft and Samsung both pick up two vendor awards.
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DISTREE EMEA 2013 ends with record number of meetings at channel forum
More than 6000 pre-scheduled meetings took place at DISTREE EMEA 2013, setting a new record for the annual channel event. More than 140 brands were represented, meeting channel executives from the region’s leading distributors, retailers and e-tailers. Thousands more informal meetings also took place during the three-day event in Monaco.
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Canon Middle East sets up Kenya operation
The Middle East arm of imaging and printing product vendor Canon has set up a subsidiary in Kenya to target the rapidly growing markets of East Africa. Canon Kenya will function as a Canon Middle East office focused on providing marketing and channel development services to both new and existing partners and clients across Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Rwanda and Burundi.
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Widget adds Trekstor tablets in UK
Distributor Widget has expanded its portfolio, adding Trekstor Android tablets in the UK. Widget will push Trekstor’s Surftab Breeze 7” tablet to its customer base of UK retailers and resellers. The Surftab Breeze tablets are imported into Europe and quality checked by German brand Trekstor. The devices will be sold with a suggested retail price of £79.99 (US$123) including VAT.
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CONTEXT emerging markets summit at DISTREE EMEA
This year’s DISTREE EMEA event in Monaco begins today with an Emerging Markets Summit hosted by channel tracking experts CONTEXT, taking place from 13:45-15:45. The session will include exclusive results from CONTEXT’s EMEA-wide ChannelWatch survey, which canvassed the opinions of thousands of resellers and retailers across the region.
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DISTREE EMEA 2013 drives ICT & CE channel business at record-breaking Monaco event
Channel management and business development in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region becomes a whole lot easier for 140-plus ICT and consumer electronics (CE) brands this week. DISTREE EMEA, the region’s leading annual event for the volume ICT & CE channel, starts today with more than 5500 pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings already confirmed for the three-day event.
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WD appoints CMS for Red hard drives
Storage vendor WD has appointed CMS Distribution as a regional OEM for the UK and Ireland. Under the terms of the deal, CMS will populate and distribute home and small office network attached storage (NAS) systems manufactured by Synology, QNAP and Thecus with WD Red hard drives.
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Asbis picks up Fujitsu rights in Algeria
Emerging markets distributor Asbis has added Fujitsu distribution rights in Algeria. The agreement between Asbis and Fujitsu Technology Solutions will see the distributor sell a range of products for the vendor including desktop PCs, notebooks, tablets, peripherals, servers and storage products.
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Lenovo fully focused on channel needs
Fast-growing Lenovo is a Silver Sponsor at this year’s DISTREE EMEA in Monaco. Lenovo continues to climb the PC rankings and will use its participation at the channel event to listen to existing and potential partners, discuss its channel engagement priorities for 2013 and showcase the full breadth of the Lenovo portfolio. Neil Berville, executive director EMEA channels and alliances at Lenovo, will take part in the Live@DISTREE presentation session to outline the company’s strategy to delegates.
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