38 l December 2013
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livenews Turbosound transplanted
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history at the upcoming Winter NAMM show.” Fears that all loudspeaker
By Dave Robinson
ULI BEHRINGER’S Music Group, the owner of Turbosound, is relocating the loudspeaker brand from its Partridge Green base in Sussex, ahead of the March 2014 expiration of the lease on its existing property. The shift marks a “regeneration” for the company, PSNEurope has learned.
As a result, manufacturing for
Moving, but not far away: Turbosound manufacturing will remain in the UK, PSNEuropeis told
Turbosound – an unquestionably iconic brand first created in the mid-1970s – will move to premises owned by Music Group in Kidderminster in the UK Midlands, which serves as Midas and Klark Teknik’s UK manufacturing facility and Music Group’s European Care Centre. Turbo’s research and
development activities will relocate to Music Group’s research facility in Manchester. Existing staff have been offered the opportunity to relocate to the new premises. No further information about possible job losses was available at press time. Nigel Beaumont, senior vice
president, Professional Division, said in a statement, “Our long-term strategy includes the opening of a new acoustic and digital research facility in Manchester, which will allow the seamless integration of Midas and Klark Teknik’s world-class digital technology expertise with Turbosound’s award-winning speaker technology. “As a result of our massive
investment, we are planning to launch the largest range of new Turbosound products in its
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manufacture might be transferred to the massive Music Group City in China Zhongshan were allayed by marketing manager for the Professional Division, Graeme Taylor. “I can categorically state this is not the end of manufacturing in the UK,” he told PSNEurope. “In fact, it’s more the regeneration of Turbosound, with more investment than it’s had in years.” Music Group acquired
Turbosound from Proel in June 2012, some 30 months after buying Midas Klark Teknik from Bosch. The Group has already invested over $20million in high-tech manufacturing equipment, and a further $4million in a state-of-the art building in Manchester to house the R&D centre. Staffing levels there are reported to have grown from an initial eight to over 60 in less than three years, “and we are continuing to recruit,” said Uli Behringer in a statement. “This is a new chapter for this iconic speaker brand that was founded over 40 years ago and provided one of the first PA systems for Pink Floyd.” In related news, PSNEurope has also learned that Costa Lakoumentas has recently left his role as senior vice president of marketing for Music Group.
www.turbosound.com
GERMAN RENTALcompany Ambion supplied almost 80 speakers from Nexo’s PS Series for this year’s Windsurfer World Cup, a 10-day event held on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Fourteen Nexo PS15-R2 high powered speakers were used indoors, for the tents and mobile venues. Outdoors, 52 x PS10-R2s, together with 12 x Nexo PS8s and four RS15 bass units, covered the beachfront area.
The entire system was powered by NXAMPS. “As a long time Nexo user, we know all about the reliability of its products,” says Ambion’s business liaison manager Stefan Puslat. “Nexo offers the perfect all- round tools for the sporting events we put on. The system we provided for the 2013 World Cup Sylt rose to the challenges we faced admirably.”
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