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Samsung Closes Offices To Dedicate Day Of Service
Samsung employees in the U.S. today are holding their fourth semiannual Day of Service — a day dedicated to improving lives in their communities...
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Alec Conrad & Bret Leatherwood Join Middle Atlantic Products
Middle Atlantic Products has added two new members to its product management team. Alec Conrad has joined the company as senior product manager for...
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Innovative Technology Names Tim Trzepacz New VP
Innovative Technology is going all-in on a new e-commerce strategy and has brought on Tim Trzepacz as its e-commerce VP, a new position. The...
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Appliance Manufacturers Salute Bob Baird
Bob Baird officially stepped down this month as head of The Home Depot’s multi-billion-dollar appliance and kitchen businesses after half a century in white-goods...
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Reflections On An Industry: Bob Baird Looks Back … And Ahead
Legendary appliance merchant Bob Baird is widely lauded for building Home Depot’s majap business into a dominant force in the white-goods industry, and influencing...
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Epson America CEO John Lang To Retire; Keith Kratzberg To Assume Title
Epson America president/CEO John Lang will retire on June 30, the company announced on Thursday. Keith Kratzberg, currently sales and marketing senior VP, will...
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5 Reasons Prince Was An Internet Pioneer
Prince, may he rest in peace and purple, not only left a prodigious musical legacy but was also an unheralded pioneer in the digital...
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Sharp Taps Todd MacGregor, Jae Park For Sales Team
Sharp Electronics Marketing Company of America (SEMCA) has sharpened its appliance focus by adding industry veterans Todd MacGregor and Jae Park to its sales...
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Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam Calls Bernie Sanders ‘Contemptible’
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam came back hard at Bernie Sanders after the presidential candidate accused his company of “corporate greed” while addressing striking wireline...
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Karl’s TV Turns 60
In 1956 Korean War vet Elmer Karl borrowed some money from his dad to open a TV store on Main Street in Gregory, S.D....
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ETC’s Ted Bremekamp Joins ProSource Board
ProSource, the A/V specialty and custom integration wing of the BrandSource buying group, has elected ETC’s Ted Bremekamp to its board of directors. Bremekamp...
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Doug Kern Named Brand Marketing Director For Hisense, Sharp TV
Hisense USA tapped former Panasonic and Sharp executive Doug Kern to the newly created position of brand marketing director for the Hisense and Sharp...
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Daniel Kippycash, DaVinci Group Founder & CEO, Dies At Age 49
Daniel Kippycash, CEO and cofounder of The DaVinci Group, passed away April 3 of complications from diabetes at age 49. The DaVinci Group is...
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CTA Promotes Kara Dickerson, Ellen Savage, Tyler Suiters To VP
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced Kara Dickerson, Ellen Savage and Tyler Suiters have all been promoted to VP positions. Dickerson will be strategic...
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Sears Hires James Andrew As CAO To Help Right The Ship
Sears Holdings has brought in turnaround specialist James Andrew as chief administrative officer to oversee a wide swath of corporate functions. Andrew comes to...
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hhgregg CIO Trent Taylor Departs
hhgregg, the troubled multi-regional retailer, has lost another senior-level executive. Trent Taylor, the chain’s chief information officer, resigned yesterday “to pursue other opportunities,” the...
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Amazon Dock-Blocking New Target Employee
Amazon has filed suit against a recent Target hire to prevent him from starting his new job next week. But this isn’t just any...
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Klipsch Brings On Jeff Denman As Key Accounts Director
Klipsch continued its steady reorganization with the announcement it has added Jeff Denman to the sales team as director, North America, key accounts. Denman,...
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D+M Wants A Say In Voice Control, Hires Robby Kilgore
D+M Group became the latest audio company announcing plans to develop a voice interface for its products. D+M’s hiring this month of Robby Kilgore...
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Best Buy’s Brad Anderson Leaving The Board
Brad Anderson, Best Buy’s onetime president, COO, vice chairman and CEO, is stepping down from his board-of-directors’ duties in June. In an 8-K filing,...
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Thiel Audio Names Stuart Levine Global Sales Director
Thiel Audio announced its second executive appointment in a week, bringing on former Harman employee Stuart Levine as its new global sales director. The...
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Jeannette Howe Returns To BrandSource As Membership Director
Industry veteran Jeannette Howe is back at BrandSource after a 10-year absence. Howe, who brings an extensive background of CE retail service, will serve...
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Home Depot Appliance Boss Bob Baird Stepping Down
Bob Baird, who helped make The Home Depot a destination for major appliances, is leaving the chain after 15 years. The merchandising VP will...
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Richard Goldberg Joins iLuv
Richard Goldberg has joined tech accessory maker iLuv Creative Technology Group as sales VP. Goldberg, an industry veteran with more than 40 years in...
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Thiel Audio Gets New CEO
Thomas Malatesta, an entrepreneur and former Procter & Gamble executive, has been appointed CEO of Thiel Audio. Before coming to the high-end speaker company...
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Voxx International Shifts Roles For Tom Malone, Aron Demers
Longtime Voxx International executives are taking on new roles in the company. Voxx Electronics president Tom Malone will head up a new Voxx division...
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Want To See Donald Trump Strike Out?
Weary of polls and searching for a new way to judge the presidential nominees? Debateball wants to bring America’s pastime to the current circus....
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Jack Pluckhahn, Former Panasonic Executive, Dies
Former Panasonic executive Jack Pluckhahn, who held multiple volunteer leadership positions in CTA’s predecessor associations, passed away. Pluckhahn served in several leadership roles with...
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Target Appoints Amazon’s Arthur Valdez Supply Chain Chief
Target has named former Amazon operations VP Arthur Valdez chief supply chain and logistics officer to shore up longstanding inventory issues at the discount...
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Lou Gervolino, Former PacBell President, Dies
CE industry veteran Lou Gervolino Sr. passed away this month. He was 75. Gervolino, born June 10, 1940, began his career with Revlon....
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Dennis May Resigns From hhgregg; Robert Riesbeck Named Interim CEO
Dennis May has resigned as president/CEO from hhgregg. The retailer announced the news Tuesday evening. According to an 8-K filed today with the Security...
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Gaga As Bowie At The Grammys: Loved It Or Hated It, Intel Made It Memorable
It’s the non-Facebook equivalent of: “Is this dress blue and black or white and gold?” Lady Gaga’s tribute to David Bowie during Monday night’s...
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iPhone Takes On GoPro In This Stunning Video
Nicolas Vuignier’s thrilling video shows 360-degree views of him skiing in the Valais region of Switzerland, one arm raised above his head. In what...
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Jim Minarik To Retire as DEI Holdings CEO
Industry veteran Jim Minarik will retire from his position as CEO of DEI Holdings by July 1 but will remain non-executive chairman of the...
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Jodi Sally, Kara Glynn Join Hisense
Hisense USA has added two new executives to strengthen the marketing efforts of its consumer electronics brands. Jodi Sally has been named director of...
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Klipsch Names Vince Bonacorsi Senior Director, A New Role
Klipsch Group promoted Vince Bonacorsi to senior director of strategic business development, a new position for the company. Bonacorsi was previously sales director...
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Ex-Electrolux Chief Jack Truong Lands Gig At Husky
Jack Truong, former head of Electrolux North America, has left the major appliance industry for a new job as president/COO of injection molding equipment...
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Garriques Out As RadioShack CEO
Ron Garriques has stepped down as CEO of RadioShack after nine months on the job. Also leaving the chain is chief revenue officer Marty...
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Ex-RadioShack CEO Joe Magnacca Gets New Gig
Joe Magnacca, RadioShack’s last CEO while still a public company, has found a new job, and it’s not likely to violate his non-compete clause....
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Klipsch Group Continues To Reorganize
Klipsch Group continued to reorganize with the appointment of industry veterans Chad Vogelsong and Dusty Thomas to newly created positions. Vogelsong becomes senior director...
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Voxx Promotes Loriann Shelton To COO
Loriann Shelton has been promoted to Voxx International COO “to help streamline operations, generate greater collaboration and efficiencies, and put us in better position...
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Consumer Technology Association Honors Legendary Musician and Internet Pioneer David Bowie
The following statement can be attributed to Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) – formerly the Consumer Electronics Association...