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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…

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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…

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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

Photo of entryway into ProSource Summit 2020

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

ProSource Partners with SnapAV on Select Brands

January 18, 2018 by Ted Leave a Comment

SnapAV logoProSource, a large industry dealer buying group, announced this morning that they are partnering with SnapAV, a diversified manufacturer/distributor of a wide group of diverse brands, to offer programs on several of their brands to group members. According to the ProSource management, members will be offered access to SnapAV’s Araknis, Luma, OvrC, Visualint, and WattBox brands.

See more on this ProSource announcement which is a bit unusual… [Read more…] about ProSource Partners with SnapAV on Select Brands

Filed Under: Buying Groups

ProSource Adds a Lucky 13 New Members

October 11, 2017 by Ted Leave a Comment

ProSource LogoProSource, one of the larger retail buying groups in the U.S. announced today that it has added 13 new members to their organization. As a multi-tiered group, these new additions were in two different groups – 12 dealers were added as custom integrator members, while one was added as an Associate PRO level member.

See more on this news from ProSource… [Read more…] about ProSource Adds a Lucky 13 New Members

Filed Under: Buying Groups, Integrators, Retailers Tagged With: Electronics Express, ProSource

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