Archive for January, 2012

Sticky: Rick P. Engels To Play With Family’s WAND

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We’ve had legal spats with more CFOs than you can possibly imagine (as a ‘breed’ they seem to be particularly litigious) so we wanted to check this post out with our in-house legal team (well okay the mighty Phil Austin lets us borrow his) before bringing you news that Rick P. Engels has joined Eden […]

#ISE2012 AOpen Booth 10N129

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

At #ISE2012 in Amsterdam AOpen will showcase a hospitality environment in the form of a café with a digital ordering system and supporting digital signage 3D menu boards. No news yet on what sort of ‘coffee shop‘ that might actually be 😉 or whether they will really be serving coffee. AOpen will be located at […]

James Roles Joins JCDecaux

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Geny Caloisi

JCDecaux, the UK’s leading Outdoor advertising company has appointed James Roles from News International as Director of Client Development. In this newly created senior role, James will have a remit across JCDecaux’s portfolio and will report to Spencer Berwin, He will head up an expanded client team of four, comprising Isabel Howett, Business Development Director […]

Marketing Budgets Conservative Due To Economic Uncertainty

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Geny Caloisi

The latest IPA Bellwether survey reveals that many companies have reviewed their marketing budgets in the last quarter of last year, resulting on a minimal upward revision – net balance* of 0.6% (down from 3.4% in Q3). Business optimism is falling further in the face of economic uncertainty, to levels seen prior to the onset […]

Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos Ciudad de Oviedo

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The creators of this portrait digital signage installation in the car park of Spain’s Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos Ciudad de Oviedo (that’s a Conference and Exhibition Centre to those of you not fluent in Spanish) claim this is the first installation in a parking area in Spain … Mind you, whilst we’ve seen some […]

CBS Outdoor UK And Nike Launch #MakeItCount Campaign

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

CBS Outdoor UK this week announced a partnership with Nike to launch an outdoor campaign entitled ‘Make it Count’, running at Westfield Stratford shopping centre. The initiative is part of Nike’s new multi-media campaign which sees top UK athletes make their pledges for the forthcoming year whilst inspiring people to make their own pledges under […]

Are If Music Inc. Preparing To Go Public?

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Our spiders found this interesting note on the GLOBE NEWSWIRE announcing that IF Music Inc had engaged Hamilton & Associates as its corporate and securities counsel to oversee its compliance with U.S. securities laws. IF Music is a designer and distributor of digital music kiosks. Kent White, the CEO of IF Music was quoted as […]

Imagesound Loses Diane Whalley

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

News just in that Diane Whalley has departed Imagesound, the lovely Diane, who was previously with Headland Media (nee Teamtalk Broadcast) joined Imagesound as Head of Business Development back in September 2008 but quickly took over responsibility for much of the Sales & Marketing.

InfoComm International CEO To Retire

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Randal (Randy) Lemke, Ph.D., executive director and CEO of InfoComm International since 2000, will retire at the end of 2012, capping off 16 years of service to the commercial audiovisual association. Dr. Lemke holds board positions, and has been the chairman of Integrated Systems Events LLC, a joint venture European trade show company, and InfoComm […]

Kim Robbins Joins BTX Technologies

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Kim Robbins has been appointed new senior marketing manager at BTX Technologies, a Hawthorne, New York-based value-added distributor and manufacturer of interface, integration, and system products for audio-visual, digital signage, broadcast, home theater, and security applications. Based in New York, Robbins replaces Mark Chernoff who has taken over as director of A/V sales Northeast. In […]