AVAD Expands Corporate HQ

VAN NUYS, CALIF. — Nationwide custom installation distributor AVAD relocated to an expanded corporate headquarters here just a block from its old facility.

The 40,000-square-foot building incorporates 5,000 square feet of showroom space, training and display areas; a customer lounge; and warehouse space. The building also features a 10,000-square-foot corporate office facility with its own entrance.

AVAD, acquired by Ingram Micro in July 2005, provides just-in-time delivery, training and technical support to installers from the facility, from 37 other locations in the United States, and from a new Toronto facility, AVAD's first in Canada.

Product lines that AVAD distributes include: Acme Brackets, APC, Aprilaire, Artison, Atlantic Technology, ATON, Belden, Bose, Carlon ChannelPlus, Chief, Coleman Cable, H-P Products/Dirt Devil Central Vacuum Systems, D-Link, Draper, Dymo/RhinoPRO, Encore!, Escient, Fujitsu, Gefen, Goo Systems-Visual Reality, Inc., Harman Kardon, InFocus ScreenPlay, iPort, JVC Professional Products Company, Key Digital, Labor Saving Devices, Lutron, Marantz, Middle Atlantic Products, Inc., Midlite, MuxLab, NetStreams, Niles Audio, OmniMount, OnQ Technologies, OpenHouse, Optoma, Panamax, Panasonic Phones, Peerless, Philips, Polk Audio, PROconnect, ProFlex, RTI, Rockustics, Samsung, Sharp, SharpVision, Spaun USA, Terk, Toshiba, Universal Remote Control, Velodyne and others.