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Middle East e-tailer and online marketplace Souq.com has whipped the covers off its first customer experience centre, located on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai. The move to open a physical space highlights the complexities of new omnichannel supply models embracing both offline and online. Souq.com claims that the new facility will make life more convenient for customers as well as sellers across the UAE.
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Jarir Bookstore opens new store in Medina
Saudi Arabian tech retail giant Jarir Bookstore recently opened a new showroom in Medina, taking its store network inside the Kingdom to 39. Jarir’s total store network now numbers 47, including its outlets outside of Saudi Arabia. The new Medina showroom on King Abdullah Road spans more than 4000 square metres. Jarir Bookstore invested more than US$16m in its latest outlet. More than 60% of the staff employed at the new store are Saudi Arabian.
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DISTREE Middle East moves to Dubai for 2017 event
DISTREE Middle East 2017 will take place on the 8-10th May at the Meydan Hotel in Dubai, UAE. The three-day channel event unites consumer technology brands and distributors with senior executives and buyers from the region’s leading retailers and e-tailers. Exhibitors pre-schedule one-on-one meetings with retailers and e-tailers attending the event, enabling them to target specific markets or channels for their product portfolio.
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DISTREE Russia announces return to Moscow for 2017 technology channel event
DISTREE Russia will return to Moscow in 2017. The country’s leading technology channel event will once again offer technology suppliers access to Russia leading retailers, e-tailers and resellers in one place at one time. DISTREE Russia will take place at Hotel Yahonty in Moscow on the 21-23rd June 2017.
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Canon honours Emax, Carrefour, Media Square and Extra
Canon Middle East, a leader in imaging solutions, reinforced its commitment to channel partners at its latest regional awards. The awards formed part of a two-day ‘Imaging Inspired’ event that saw 170 decision makers from Canon’s tier one and tier two channel partners from across the Middle East region gather together. In the Middle East region, Emax UAE bagged the Canon Middle East performance award for 2016 in the DSLR and lens category, considered a prime business area for Canon.
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Fourth annual DISTREE APAC delivered new channel opportunities for consumer technology brands
The fourth annual DISTREE Asia-Pacific (APAC) ends today in Singapore. The focused consumer tech channel event provided a unique opportunity for vendors and brands to hold pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with senior executives and buyers from the region’s top consumer tech channel partners, including retailers, e-tailers and distributors.
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DISTREE APAC welcomes consumer tech distributors and retailers to annual channel event
The fourth annual DISTREE Asia-Pacific (APAC) takes place this week in Singapore. The focused consumer tech channel event provides a unique opportunity for vendors and brands to hold pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with senior executives and buyers from the region’s top consumer tech channel partners, including retailers, e-tailers and distributors.
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APAC consumer channel hungry for new brands
The fourth annual DISTREE Asia-Pacific (APAC) consumer tech channel event takes place in Singapore from the 2-4th November. In the run-up to this year’s event, DISTREE APAC conducted a survey of distributors and retailers across the region during October. The 2016 Asia-Pacific Consumer Tech Channel Survey, which included responses from distributors and retailers in 10 countries, revealed that 88% of respondents expected to increase their vendor portfolio in the next six months
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Mirakl marketplace selected by Elkjøp
Mirakl, a global marketplace solutions provider, will provide Elkjøp Nordic, part of Dixons Carphone and the largest consumer electronic retailer in the Nordics, with its B2B SaaS marketplace platform. The new deal will see Elkjøp, which has 400 stores in four countries and 10,000 employees, grow its online offering with a new marketplace that will keep customers excited about its brand through experimentation with new product lines and promotions. Elkjøp has sales of €2.7 billion (US$3.02 billion), €600m (US$671m) of which are through its existing online channels.
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ASUS targets UAE gamers with latest kit
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) has announced that it is bringing the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10-series graphics cards to the UAE for the first time through its G752 notebook. Available to buy now, the G752 will also be showcased at Gitex Shopper this week priced from AED 11,499 (US$3131). The latest graphic cards designed specifically for laptops allow users to play games with a significantly improved experience similar to that of a desktop device, but at a far more accessible price. It will also be available in the UAE through world’s most powerful 18-inch gaming laptop, the GX800, by the end of this year.
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