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Nationwide Sets Sights on Custom Integration & Luxury Home Dominance

October 19, 2022 by Ted 2 Comments

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See My Interview w/Nationwide President Tom Hickman

In the days leading up to the recent CEDIA Expo in Dallas, Nationwide Marketing Group, one of the largest buying groups in the U.S., announced that former ProSource VP Andy Orozco would be joining Nationwide as its Senior Vice President of Custom Integration. That news grabbed my attention as it came less than a year after Nationwide’s acquisition of one of the top custom integration buying groups, Azione Unlimited, back in October 2021.

Clearly, something big is going on at Nationwide…

[Read more…] about Nationwide Sets Sights on Custom Integration & Luxury Home Dominance

Filed Under: Buying Groups, Integrators, News, People, Strategy Tagged With: Andy Orozco, Azione Unlimited, Hank Alexander, HTSN, Nationwide Marketing Group, Richard Glikes, Tom Hickman

Former ProSource VP Andy Orozco Named Nationwide Senior VP of CI

September 21, 2022 by Ted Leave a Comment

Nationwide Marketing Group logo

Nationwide Marketing Group (Nationwide) continues to hit the accelerator pedal as it seeks to build upon its plans to expand the custom integration segment for the group, first indicated when it acquired another CI-centric group, Azioned Unlimited, back in October of 2021. Now Nationwide is announcing that Andy Orozco, a former top (and long-time) executive with ProSource, has joined the organization as its Senior Vice President of Custom Integration.

See more on Orozco joining Nationwide Marketing Group

[Read more…] about Former ProSource VP Andy Orozco Named Nationwide Senior VP of CI

Filed Under: Buying Groups, Integrators, Management, News, People, Shows & Events Tagged With: Andy Orozco, Nationwide Marketing Group, ProSource, Tom Hickman

ProSource Expands Leadership Team; Appoints Jim Pearse as President

March 25, 2022 by Ted Leave a Comment

Jim Pearse, new ProSource President

This week, ProSource announced that it was expanding its leadership team by adding well-known retail industry executive Jim Pearse as its new President. The duties of the president were once part of CEO Dave Workman’s role, but the group says this management team expansion is now necessary to support the group’s continued growth.

See more on Jim Pearse joining ProSource

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Filed Under: Buying Groups, News, People Tagged With: Dave Workman, Jim Pearse, ProSource

Azione Unlimited Merges with Nationwide Marketing Group

October 20, 2021 by Ted Leave a Comment

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Azione Unlimited announced today that it has partnered with Nationwide Marketing Group, a group representing more than 14,000 storefronts made up largely of appliance, furniture, and electronics retailers. While Nationwide may not be an immediately obvious choice as a partner for Azione, the custom integration specialist group maintains that it makes perfect sense as they say integrators must be able “to address all of their clients’ needs, no matter the room in the home.”

See more on the merger of Azione Unlimited and Nationwide Marketing Group

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Filed Under: Buying Groups, Dealers, Financial, Integrators, News, Strategy Tagged With: Nationwide

Emerald: The Show WILL Go On!

August 19, 2021 by Ted 3 Comments

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Emerald Letter Tries to Nail Down Remaining Exhibitors

On Wednesday, Emerald emailed a letter to exhibitors that appears to be an attempt to stem the outflow of companies that have canceled their participation in the CEDIA Expo 2021 – 42 brands according to Strata-gee’s tracking – and encourage those exhibitors that have not yet abandoned the show from leaving. Signed by Emerald executives Brian Pagel and Jason McGraw, the letter declared “the show is still very much on as planned.”

See more on the Emerald attempt to stem the tide leaving Expo

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Filed Under: Brands, Buying Groups, Dealers, Health, Integrators, News, Shows & Events Tagged With: Brian Pagel, CEDIA Expo, COVID-19, Delta variant, Emerald, Emerald Expositions, Jason McGraw

High-End Faces A Matter of Survival in Pandemic’s Wake; Here’s What We Should Do Now

June 2, 2020 by Ted 6 Comments

In This GUEST POST, Bill Leebens Takes You on a Journey from ‘Me’ to ‘We’ & Proposes a New Industry Association

A few months ago, I unexpectedly became unemployed. There had been occasions in my career when it was clear that I needed to get the hell out of Dodge —but this wasn’t one of them.

A new job would not appear overnight; that was obvious. I was up to my ears in fearful self-absorption.

Then things changed…and the world was in upheaval.

This changed everything…

[Read more…] about High-End Faces A Matter of Survival in Pandemic’s Wake; Here’s What We Should Do Now

Filed Under: Associations, Buying Groups, Pivot Point, Shows & Events, Strategy Tagged With: Bill Leebens

Sound United and HTSA Partner to Expand Market Availability of Top Audio Brands

May 20, 2020 by Ted Leave a Comment

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Sound United LLC, the parent company to brands such as Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio, Definitive Technology, Classé, and Boston Acoustics, announced on Tuesday that they have joined forces with Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA), a leading trade consortium of custom integration dealers. This new partnership will expand availability of some of the top specialty audio brands throughout North America, thanks to HTSA’s extensive network of top dealers.

See more on this Sound United and HTSA partnership…

[Read more…] about Sound United and HTSA Partner to Expand Market Availability of Top Audio Brands

Filed Under: Brands, Buying Groups, Integrators, Manufacturers, News Tagged With: Boston Acoustics, classé, Classe, Definitive Technology, Denon, Frank Sterns, Home Technology Specialists of America, HTSA, Jon Robbins, Marantz, Polk Audio, Sound United

Uninvited Guest: Attendees of ProSource Summit 2020 Exposed to Coronavirus COVID-19

March 19, 2020 by Ted Leave a Comment

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ProSource Confirms COVID-19 Exposure from Exhibitor at Annual Member Conference

ProSource wrapped up their annual Summit, this year known as Summit 2020 on March 11th. The event had barely wrapped up when within days many other organizations began canceling their events due to the rapidly propagating coronavirus epidemic sweeping across the U.S. ProSource barely got their event completed just as health authorities around the country began restricting gatherings such as conferences like theirs which congregate a lot of people in one place at one time.

And now we know that there was another attendee at the ProSource Summit 2020 – coronavirus COVID-19, an uninvited guest, visited the group’s annual event..

See more on COVID-19 at ProSource Summit 2020…

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Filed Under: Buying Groups, News, Shows & Events Tagged With: AVB, Coronavirus, COVID-19

Expanding Local Presence, SnapAV Acquires Volutone

November 13, 2018 by Ted 2 Comments

BREAKING NEWS

Graphic of Volutone/SnapAVSnapAV, a leading provider of custom integration brands and products, announced today that it has acquired Volutone, a respected California-based distributor with seven locations throughout California and Nevada. The move expands SnapAV’s local touch points in a key market, a strategy that first emerged with their earlier acquisition of another large regional distributor in March of this year, Chicago’s Allnet Distributing.

See more on this dramatic advancement of SnapAV’s local strategy… [Read more…] about Expanding Local Presence, SnapAV Acquires Volutone

Filed Under: Buying Groups, Distributors, Financial, Industry Trends, News, Pivot Point, Strategy Tagged With: Allnet Distributing, AVAD, SnapAV, Volutone, Wally Whinna

Does the WAVE/AVAD Deal Signal a New Era in Distribution?

October 10, 2018 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of WAVE's new Dania Beach locationAs we reported last week, the world learned that the private equity group that owns AVAD has made another deal, acquiring Houston, TX-based WAVE Electronics, another major custom integration distribution company. After an initial ripple of excitement over the deal, most of us went back to our daily lives – looking at this deal as nothing more than just another private equity acquisition. But there may be more here than meets the eye…

See how distribution is changing… [Read more…] about Does the WAVE/AVAD Deal Signal a New Era in Distribution?

Filed Under: Buying Groups, Distributors, Industry Trends, Management, News, Strategy Tagged With: Alliance of Value Added Distributors, AVAD, Kiingswood Capital, WAVE, WAVE Electronics

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