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DISTREE Events has appointed Caio Campos as a new Sales Manager in Brazil. Caio has a wealth of experience in the Brazilian market with more than a decade of experience in the business-to-business tradeshow sector, with a focus on business development, growth strategies and event management. In his new role, Caio will focus on the continued growth and expansion of DISTREE Brazil.
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Sungale, the innovative consumer electronics brand, has announced the release and introduction of the Netchef G3 Smart Kitchen Gateway, a true smart home product for the modern kitchen. Using cutting-edge voice search technology, the Netchef G3 allows the home cook to simply use their voice to search for the groceries they need, and then from there the selected online grocery store will deliver the groceries to their doorstep.
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European distribution channel rebounds
The latest European distributor report from research house IT Europa shows that the region’s top 500 distributors recorded combined sales of US$153.75 billion in 2014, up 7.25% year-on-year. The number of staff employed by the top 500 distributors came in at 100,007, according to the report. The numbercrunchers at the research firm reckon that Tech Data was the largest distributor in Europe by revenue.
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Ingram Micro signs NEPA deal with Microsoft
Everyone loves a good regional acronym in the IT channel. Distributor giant Ingram Micro has announced an agreement with vendor colossus Microsoft covering the North Africa, East Mediterranean and Pakistan (NEPA) region, which includes the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Pakistan. With this contract, Ingram Micro is authorised to distribute the entire line of volume licensing products from Microsoft.
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Egenera, a provider of wholesale cloud services and cloud management solutions, today announced that Entatech, a privately owned UK IT distributor, has signed a contract to offer Egenera’s wholesale cloud solution to its channel customer base of 5000 multichannel IT-focused resellers.
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DISTREE EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) 2016 will be held from February 24-27th at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. Taking place for the 14th consecutive year in 2016, DISTREE EMEA will gather more than 1000 senior executives including vendors, plus distributors, retailers and e-tailers from across the entire EMEA theatre. The annual event provides a powerful business development platform for consumer technology brands at all stages of maturity to manage, build or launch channels across the expansive EMEA region.
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Yankon and Kii team up for smart lighting
Internet of Things (IoT) cloud platform provider Kii has teamed up with Yankon Lighting, an LED manufacturer, to launch next-generation IoT smart lighting solutions for homes and offices. The smart lighting products, which can be accessed through a smartphone, have adopted a system-on-a-chip solution provided by MediaTek. The new products will target consumer demand for a lower cost, comfortable, convenient, energy-efficient lighting system.
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Hardware giant Lenovo has given a glimpse at the future technologies and trends that will shape its product portfolio in the years ahead. During the company’s Tech World event, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing addressed five themes that will change the way people use technology: creating more natural ways for people to use devices; building reliable device and network connections; making devices more interconnected; giving customers the power of big data and their own personal cloud, and leveraging smart connectivity to let customers pick the services they want.
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Acer launches wave of new products
Hardware giant Acer has unveiled a number of new products across a range of different form factors at a launch event in New York. Acer’s full device offering, ranging from 1” to 100” screens, aims to offer enhanced opportunities for productivity, education, entertainment, gaming and connecting. Acer is a Gold Sponsor at May’s DISTREE Middle East event, and a Silver Sponsor at June’s DISTREE Africa, giving the brand a powerful opportunity to meet the most influential consumer technology retailers and e-tailers in both regions.
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Linksys tops 100 million routers globally
Networking brand Linksys has now sold more than 100 million wired and wireless routers globally since it started to sell the products back in 1999. Today, Linksys offers more than 60 different routers connecting hundreds of millions of people and devices to the internet. Belkin Linksys is a Platinum Sponsor at next month’s DISTREE Middle East event in Abu Dhabi, UAE. As a leading networking brand in the region, the Belkin Linksys team will use the event to hold pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with senior retail and e-tail executives from across the region.
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