NEW YORK — Bob Moses, longtime AES member and officer, accomplished product designer, technologist and pro audio industry advocate, has been named executive director of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), effective Jan. 1, 2012. AES president Jan Abildgaard Pedersen made the announcement Dec. 20.
Read More »TEL AVIV, Israel — Giveon Electronics Ltd. is celebrating 75 years as a Shure distributor. The company has been distributing audio products since 1934, and began its affiliation with Shure just two years after being founded.
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POTTERS BAR, UK — Harman named production and operations veteran Harry McGee to its Mixer, Microphones and Headphones business unit for Soundcraft, Studer and AKG-branded gear.
Read More »NASHVILLE — JoeCo Limited has announced that, following years of distributing the BlackBox recorder in the U.S., Nashville-based Full Scale AV will now also distribute the JoeCo product range in Canada.
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FORT WAYNE, IN — Sweetwater, the third largest music instrument and pro audio retailer in the U.S., recently hired 10 new Sales Engineers, with nine of them coming to Fort Wayne from outside Indiana. The new hires bring total Sweetwater employment to more than 500.
Read More »BELGRADE, Serbia — dBTechnologies named Sky Corporation as its distributor in Serbia. “I’m very impressed by Sky Corporation,” said dBTechnologies sales area manager Gianluca Dalessandro, who closed the deal. “They handle everything from rental to retail, organize events, logistics and are able to offer every kind of service to meet all needs.”
Read More »CONCORD, CA — D-Tools, Inc. announced that AV product manufacturer SnapAV renewed its D-Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) program Partnership. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, SnapAV makes close to 1,000 custom AV products for customers in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Their product data within the D-Tools database was updated recently to help users specify products for end user customers.
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WORCESTERSHIRE, UK — XTA Electronics promoted Richard Fleming to application and support manager. Fleming has 20 years working in pro audio R&D. Prior to XTA, Fleming worked at Klark Teknik and Laney/HH Amplification.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Harman Professional named Nick Owen senior director, worldwide sales for its Signal Processing business unit. Owen will be responsible for global brand strategies for the dbx, Lexicon, BSS and DigiTech brands. He is based in Harman’s Sandy, UT facility and reports to Rob Urry, vice president and GM of Harman’s Signal Processing and Amplifier business units.
Read More »BATON ROUGE, LA — PreSonus and Rational Acoustics agreed to incorporate Rational Acoustics’ Smaart Measurement Technology into PreSonus products.
Read More »NASHVILLE, TN — Gibson Guitar acquired the assets of the Stanton Group, including KRK Systems, Cerwin-Vega! and Stanton DJ, and announced the formation of the Gibson Pro Audio Division, based here. The acquisition marks Gibson’s further expansion into the pro audio market with loudspeaker, monitor and electronics technology. Gibson noted that Stanton Group’s R&D base added value to the deal.
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FLERO, Italy and APELDOORN, The Netherlands – Outline s.r.l. named The Audio Specialists b.v. (TAS) as their exclusive distributor for Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany.
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