Atlona adds RGB for distribution


RGB has added Atlona products to its portfo- lio, expanding the distributor’s remit beyond the custom install (residential) market to the UK commercial AV market. RGB’s Gordon Innocent is particularly excited by this ap- pointment saying:


“Atlona is already well-known for their superb range of switchers, matrix switchers, distribution amplifiers, etc. However, with the advent of its new Huddle Room and ‘Soft Codec’ solutions, ‘OmniStream’ AV over IP range, and the company’s recently-announced ‘Velocity’ cloud-based control system and wireless presentation solutions, we believe our extensive experience of more techni- cally demanding ‘connectivity and control’ solutions makes us the perfect distribution partner to bring these new products to the AV market”.


JOAN has appointed Midwich Ltd to distrib- ute its digital meeting room booking solutions to the UK and Ireland. Part of the Visionect product line, JOAN is an award-winning user-friendly, plug-and-play digital booking


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Gordon Innocent, Chairman and Founder of RGB Communications: believes RGB is the “the perfect distribution partner to bring these new products to the AV market”.


JOAN appoints Midwich


the competitive pricing, JOAN is all about improving office productivity, while installers will benefit from its wireless operation the easy-to-mount system (which even works for glass doors).


JOAN has appointed Midwich Ltd to distribute its digital meeting room booking solutions to the UK and Ireland


solution for meeting rooms. The innovation helps improve office productivity, meeting room scheduling and improves efficiencies in workspaces by making sure employees can access a meeting space when they need it. The simple interface and system enables people to know when rooms are booked, reserve spaces for a desired time slot and du- ration, and even find openings for immediate, ad hoc meetings. JOAN is the first ePaper solution for meeting rooms and a winner of the Red Dot Design Award. Although most buyers focus on the energy-savings and


Available in over 20 languages, JOAN is already used by thousands of companies around the world, including Microsoft, Hyun- dai, KFC, and the Huffington Post. Jon Dew-Stanley, Technical Director at Midwich said: “We’re excited to welcome JOAN into the Midwich family. With smaller meeting rooms or ‘huddle rooms’ growing in popularity, there is a huge need in the UK market for technology that would enable companies to maximise the utilisation of such spaces.”


Europe’s leading technology consultant and AV technology specialist planner Stuttgart-based macom GmbH and one of the leading experts for media and visuali- sation matters for temporary installations, Berlin-based NIYU media projects GmbH have formed a strategic collaboration. The two businesses will retain their autonomy, they are pooling their resourc- es and competences, within the macom group, in favour of a reinforced market cul- tivation and an expanded service. In this context, NIYU will change their company name to macomNIYU GmbH. “NIYU’s know-how is an enrichment for the competences of macom group. NIYU has an experience of the market for tempo- rary installations, previously not available within the macom group. With this rein- forcement, macom group now unites 65 highly experienced engineers with a unique expertise for the specialist planning of AV technology, acoustics and lighting for fixed installations and temporary projects. Thus, together we can serve our customers even better”, Björn Jensen, managing director of macom GmbH, explains. “We have made the decision for this collaboration after careful consideration. It was the obvious step towards the further development of our company, the future and the reinforcement of the brand. macom and NIYU not only have a similar know how, we have our corporate cultures and the quality standards of the planning and the project implementation in common as well. Together we can join our forces and our expertise to direct them in the same direction. Thus, the collaboration of- fers the capacities for a planned strategic growth and the extension of the service portfolio for our customers. Strictly speak- ing, the collaboration even is part of this growth”, Niko Hocke, managing director of macomNIYU GmbH emphasizes. Together the two businesses have a specialist planning expertise stemming from over 2,000 successfully implemented projects throughout the world. With this combined market power, the companies want to address new market segments. A new joint position for sales and marketing responsibilities has been created in favour of the intensified market development. This position is supposed to bundle and focalise the joint efforts on the market.


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