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Strata-gee Talks to New AVAD President Fred Farrar

June 14, 2017 by Ted Leave a Comment

AVAD logo 2017AVAD, one of the custom integration industry’s leading distributors, is in the process of going through a major transformation, out from under the – some would say – clueless shadows of its previous owner, monster I.T. distributor Ingram Micro…to a more focused posture under new owner Kingswood Capital Management. Now being managed by CEO Tom Jacoby and President Fred Farrar, the company has begun a series of initiatives to transform their geographic footprint, business model, and push to higher revenues.

We spoke with new President Fred Farrar to find out what’s going on at AVAD… [Read more…] about Strata-gee Talks to New AVAD President Fred Farrar

Filed Under: Distributors, Management, People, Specialty, Strategy Tagged With: AVAD, Fred Farrar, Tom Jacoby

AVAD Expands Locations and Vendors

June 8, 2017 by Ted Leave a Comment

AVAD logo 2017AVAD LLC, a leading distributor of custom integration brands, announced this week a dramatic expansion of their business – including no fewer than 11 new facility locations and the addition of Séura, a popular brand of outdoor televisions to their brand assortment. The news suggests an acceleration of their rollout of a new business model that they described in the middle of last year after the company was purchased from Tianjin by Kingswood Capital Management.

See more on this continued expansion by AVAD… [Read more…] about AVAD Expands Locations and Vendors

Filed Under: Distributors, News Tagged With: Alliance of Value Added Distributors, AVAD, Fred Farrer, Tom Jacoby

AVAD Sold to Private Equity Company

July 5, 2016 by Ted Leave a Comment

BREAKING NEWS

Industry Veteran Tom Jacoby is AVAD’s New CEO

New AVAD logoNews comes this 4th of July holiday week that Ingram Micro, itself just recently acquired by a Chinese shipping company, has sold off AVAD, LLC and AVAD Canada Ltd., to Kingswood Capital Management, a private equity company. In an announcement from Kingswood, the company says it has brought in a new upper management team – including a new CEO, industry veteran Tom Jacoby.

See more on the sale of AVAD to private equity… [Read more…] about AVAD Sold to Private Equity Company

Filed Under: Brands, Financial, Manufacturers, News, Pivot Point, Strategy Tagged With: Alex Wolf, Alliance of Value Added Distributors, AVAD, Fred Farrar, Harman, Ingram Micro, Kingswood Capital Management, Klipsch, Tom Jacoby

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