04 l January 2014
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VDC receives birthday bonus from Neutrik
Cable maker is now certified to make fibre products, writes Dave Robinson
VDC TRADING Limited, the London-based company behind the Van Damme cable brand, has recently been certified by Neutrik as a Certified opticalCON Assembler (COCA), one of only 24 facilities worldwide and only four in the UK. The certification follows a programme of staff development and the creation of a state-of- the-art laboratory at the Brandon Road Headquarters. VDC CEO Niall Holden said: “This is a considerable
NETHERLANDS Kocks back in the cockpit
MARC KOCKS will take up the position of director at Sales-All in Bemmel, Netherlands starting in January 2014. Kocks, who previously
spent over 20 years with the Ampco Flashlight Group’s sales companies where he was managing director of TM Audio and Lightco, will be responsible driving Sales-All forward, as well as business development for
Sales-All and sister operation Fairlight. Sales-All is a distributor for L-Acoustics and dBTechnologies loudspeakers, and a dealer for Shure, Sennheiser, Yamaha and Panasonic. “I am looking forward to
working with this professional team to expand sales at both Sales-All and Fairlight,” says Kocks. “The well structured and very healthy financial position of
the companies means we are a reliable and secure partner for customers and suppliers, so we have a very firm base from which to progress.”
His initial goals are to open
new markets, expand Sales-All’s presence in the Benelux region, set up an international network for secondhand sales and establish a European working network for private label
Kocks: new post at Sales-All
products, such as CLF. He will also focus on the design, supply and installation of systems.
The new fibre lab at VDC HQ
investment but natural extension of our capability to deliver bespoke copper-based solutions. It represents a major step forward in our in-house cable technology and, as one of only four similar labs in the UK, will enable us to offer a superior fibre optic service to our clients, but with the same great solution design and production turn- around times they are used to receiving from us.” The endorsement by Neutrik is the icing on the cake for VDC, as the company celebrated 25 years of business with a party at Abbey Road Studios. Around 130 friends, customers and colleagues of the Van Damme cable manufacturer and supplier gathered in the famous Studio Two in late November to toast the company and its founder Holden, chairman Andrew Higginson and non-executive director John Reed. Entertainment during the evening included turns by
comedian musician Earl Okin, US artist Tom Chacon and guitarist duo Bob Wootton and Nick Tilley. Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page was a surprise arrival later in the evening. Holden told assembled guests how the company had been formed in 1987. “A lovely man at the National Westminster gave us £5,000 and we thought, ‘Wow!’. We went on holiday for three weeks with it to Rhodes... “We had a fantastic time in Lindos and then we thought we hadn’t had enough spending, so we bought ourselves two cars, a 1.3 Sierra and a brown Cortina Estate. We did all that and then we had £128 left… and that was what started VDC really.” The company’s relationship with Abbey Road began in 1991, when VDC supplied cabling for Studio Three.
www.vdctrading.com + See cables feature, p22
Sales-All was founded
three years ago and imports, distributes, installs and provides service for professional audio, lighting and video equipment. Fairlight has been one of the largest import and distribution companies in the Dutch market for over two decades and handles distribution for Martin Professional. Both companies are allied to
PA hire company Rent-All, which last year supplied equipment for the Dreamfields Festival and the Mediterranean Olympic Games in Turkey.
www.salesall.eu
Non-executive director John Reed, founder Niall Holden and chairman Andrew Higginson drink to 25 years of business at the party in Abbey Road Studio Two
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