HOME INTERVIEW: Carlo Albai, TeleQare Europe
TeleQare will participate for the first time at this week’s DISTREE EMEA consumer tech channel event in Monaco. TeleQare’s multinational team provides product design, manufacturing management, quality control, kitting, warehousing and logistics services to global distributors of accessories for mobile devices. Channel EMEA caught up with Carlo Albai, business development director for TeleQare Europe, to get the lowdown on the company’s services and plans for this year’s event.
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Comet ‘buoyant’ on floating smartphone demand
Comet will showcase ‘the world’s first buoyant smartphone’ at this week’s DISTREE EMEA event in Monaco, bringing distributors from across the region up to speed on the product’s features and technology. Comet has been working on testing and manufacturing processes for the last 12 months and is now ready to build out its routes-to-market. A pre-order campaign resulted in orders from 42 countries and interest from distributors in Europe, Asia and North America. In total, Comet has already secured orders for 500,000 devices, according to the vendor.
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Thomas Rockman, Deutsche Telekom
There is a growing debate on open versus proprietary systems in the smart home channel. Thomas Rockman, VP Connected Home at Deutsche Telekom, brings us up to speed on the key issues.
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Game, set and channel match for QLIPP
New smart tech products will take centre stage at this week’s DISTREE EMEA channel event in Monaco. Brands from around the world will hold pre-scheduled meetings with top distributors as they look to launch, build or manage routes-to-market across the region. Singapore-based QLIPP is hoping it will be game, set and channel match for its smart tennis dampener as it looks to recruit new channel partners.
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Proove to promote multiple brands at DISTREE EMEA
Proove is a Swedish company that develops and provides products under its own label or as an ingredient brand to partners. The portfolio includes three brands - Holdit, Smartline and Telldus - providing products spanning electronics, mobile accessories, electrical equipment, lighting and smart home technology. The company is participating at this week’s DISTREE EMEA in Monaco to promote its multiple brands to distributors from across the region.
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PhotoFast to expand EMEA channel reach
Premium smart accessory brand PhotoFast will use its participation at DISTREE EMEA to hold face-to-face meetings with senior executives from top tech distributors from across the region. Expanding channel reach in Russia, Italy, Germany and France, is a top priority for the PhotoFast team at this week’s event. With hundreds of distributors confirmed to attend DISTREE EMEA, the event provides a perfect opportunity for PhotoFast to fulfil its channel ambitions.
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INTERVIEW: Soum Rakshit, MysteryVibe
Have you heard the saying sex sells? The crossover between sex toys and connected technologies has created a fast-growing sextech sector, that represents a significant growth opportunity for forward thinking distributors. Channel EMEA caught up with Soum Rakshit, CEO & Co-Founder, MysteryVibe, ahead of the company’s participation at this week’s DISTREE EMEA in Monaco, to find out more about the channel opportunity and market potential.
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Pradip Somaia, Regent Partners
Pradip Somaia, partner at Regent Partners, outlines the current European ICT channel M&A trends ahead of his workshop session at DISTREE EMEA 2017 in Monaco.
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DISTREE confirms 2017 calendar of events
DISTREE Events has confirmed its 2017 event calendar, with five consumer technology channel events planned around the world. DISTREE Events, a division of Infopro Digital, provides ICT and consumer electronics (CE) brands with the most effective platform for managing, developing, or launching volume routes-to-market for consumer technology and consumer electronics (CE) products through retailers, resellers and distributors.
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T’nB confirmed for DISTREE EMEA
Hundreds of consumer tech brands will use next week’s DISTREE EMEA event in Monaco to launch, build or manage their regional distribution channel through pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with existing and potential partners. Accessories brand T’nB will promote its portfolio of 1200 products across 7 ranges as it looks to the next stage of business development.
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