Crestron Electronics announced today that it is returning to the CEDIA Expo show for the first time since Strata-gee broke the news of their surprising exit from the event four years ago in 2016. This announcement marks a triumphant return for a company that has seen its residential business soar over the last few years, particularly with the launch of their Crestron Home software solution.
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Emerald Expositions Announces Death of Sally Shankland, Its Most Recent CEO
Emerald Expositions announced this week that Sally Shankland, it most recent CEO who had been hired in June 2019 to replace resigning CEO David Loechner, has died following her month’s long battle with cancer. The company says Shankland passed away at home peacefully.
See more on this news about Shankland…
[Read more…] about Emerald Expositions Announces Death of Sally Shankland, Its Most Recent CEOIFA 2020 Show, Scheduled in September, is Now Canceled
All Eyes Turn to the Emerald City – San Juan Capistrano
IFA 2020, a huge consumer electronics show scheduled to take place in Berlin on September 4-9, 2020, is now canceled, the organization behind the event announced this week. It is yet another show joining a long line of mass, in-person marketing events to suffer this fate. The promoter is promising “an innovative new concept” to replace it – which some speculate will be a virtual online conference.
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[Read more…] about IFA 2020 Show, Scheduled in September, is Now CanceledEmerald Cancels All Trade Shows & Events for First Six Months of 2020
Status of CEDIA Expo Remains in Doubt
Emerald Holding Inc. (NYSE: EEX), formerly known as Emerald Expositions Events Inc. – a national exposition company that is home to both the CEDIA Expo and CE Pro magazine – has announced that they are postponing all events for the first two quarters of 2020 due to the rapid spread of the global pandemic Coronavirus (COVID-19). Given their position as one of the largest producers of B-to-B trade shows in the U.S., this is a major development with huge impact on the various industries their shows serve.
Learn more on this major Emerald move…
[Read more…] about Emerald Cancels All Trade Shows & Events for First Six Months of 2020Another Tumultuous Year for Emerald Expositions in Fiscal Q4 & Full Year 2019
Owner of CEDIA Expo & CE Pro, Emerald Books Revenue Drop of $20M & a Record $50 Million Net Loss
I hardly know where to begin, there’s so much to unpack here from a 20-page quarterly report and a 210-page annual report. Emerald Expositions Events, Inc. [NYSE: EEX] has released their fiscal 2019 fourth quarter and full year results…and it’s hard to overstate the level of turmoil exhibited there. What kind of turmoil, you ask? Read on…
Tremendous turmoil: sales declines, record losses, executive turnover and more at Emerald Expositions…
[Read more…] about Another Tumultuous Year for Emerald Expositions in Fiscal Q4 & Full Year 2019CEDIA19: Origin Acoustics in Big Entry into Commercial Market
Always an entertaining stop at CEDIA, Origin Acoustics didn’t disappoint again this year with a significant number of new models, some other updated models, and new announcements. See what caught my eye at this CEDIA Expo…
See new commercial products from Origin…
[Read more…] about CEDIA19: Origin Acoustics in Big Entry into Commercial MarketCEDIA19: Fred Rosen Says Red Carpet Home Cinema is Ready for Their Close-Up
While others are just now discovering them, Strata-gee first told you about Red Carpet Home Cinema back in April of 2019. At that time, they were really just a concept. But now, CEO Fred Rosen told me at CEDIA, the premium home movie delivery service has arrived and they are now in active beta testing in about 100 homes…
Rosen says why Red Carpet will succeed where others failed…
[Read more…] about CEDIA19: Fred Rosen Says Red Carpet Home Cinema is Ready for Their Close-UpCEDIA 2019: In Turbulent Economy Sony’s Frank Sterns Tells His Team Just ‘Work the Plan’
Much like any trade show, CEDIA Expo 2019 was full of optimism and good cheer. But with just a few questions to top executives of major exhibitors it is fairly easy to pierce that veil of good cheer to reveal underlying concerns of approaching economic storm clouds. I chatted with Frank Sterns, Sony’s Vice President of AV Specialty/Custom Integration, about the turbulent waters our industry is sailing through and how Sony is faring in the face of these increasing headwinds.
See the course Sony has charted in these turbulent times…
[Read more…] about CEDIA 2019: In Turbulent Economy Sony’s Frank Sterns Tells His Team Just ‘Work the Plan’CEDIA 2019: OSD Audio Continues Expansion of Innovative System Solutions
OSD Audio, a specialty supplier of a wide assortment of audio solutions, continues to expand their offerings with new subwoofers, amplifiers, and streaming devices shown at last month’s 2019 CEDIA Expo. The company also featured a dramatic 7.3.4 Dolby Atmos theater system which not only showcased their new Trevoce12 subwoofers (three of them, no less) but also their monster Theatro X11 amplifier with 11-channels of 380 wpc. To say it just about knocked my socks off would be an understatement.
See more from OSD Audio’s CEDIA booth…
[Read more…] about CEDIA 2019: OSD Audio Continues Expansion of Innovative System SolutionsCEDIA 2019: Lenbrook Launches Array of New Models from Multiple Specialty Brands
At the the CEDIA Expo earlier this month, Lenbrook had a substantial launch of multiple new models from their collection of brands. Firmly positioned in the mid- to high-end technology market, the new products from Bluesound, Dali, NAD, and PSB continued to forge a path into the new digital audiophile market with high-quality streaming models and high-end in-wall and on-wall speaker and subwoofer solutions.
And in the case of one model, it was an award-winning presentation…