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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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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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INTERVIEW: Siamack Ghanimfard, Naghsh
Next month’s DISTREE Middle East consumer tech channel event in Dubai will gather hundreds of senior executives from vendors, distributors, retailers and e-tailers together in one place at one time. The event is a powerful platform for distributors to hold pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with both vendors and retailers. Channel EMEA caught up with Siamack Ghanimfard, managing director at distributor Naghsh, to learn more about the company’s plans for the event.
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Home Electronics confirmed for DISTREE Middle East
Home Electronics from Bahrain will join consumer tech retailers and e-tailers from across the wider Middle East region at this year’s DISTREE Middle East channel event, which takes place in Dubai from May 8-10th 2017. Channel EMEA caught up with Sumith Thekkayil, category manager digital and IT at Home Electronics, to learn more about the retailer’s strategic objectives and to get the inside track on the highly competitive consumer tech market in Bahrain.
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Amazon reaches agreement to buy Souq.com
NASDAQ-quoted Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire SOUQ.com, a major e-commerce player in the Middle East. The move ignites an intriguing battle for e-commerce supremacy in the fast-growing region, with Noon.com, which has financial backing from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, due to launch in the coming weeks.
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DISTREE Middle East invites retailers, distributors and vendors to enter 2017 MERA initiative awards
DISTREE Events has confirmed a deadline of April 29th for companies to enter the submission-based awards, which form part of the ‘Middle East Retail Academy (MERA): 2017 Awards’ taking place at DISTREE Middle East in May. The annual MERA Awards, taking place for the 10th consecutive year in 2017, celebrate excellence in the region’s consumer technology retail channel.
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