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WiSA Names Thomas Lee President
San Francisco — The Wireless Speaker and Audio (WiSA) Association has named Thomas Lee president, replacing Jim Venable. Lee’s resume includes more than 30...
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Target Adds Trio
Minneapolis — Target announced three additions to its executive team. Jim Fisher joins as senior VP, infrastructure and operations, Target technology services, where he...
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Windsor Leaving German Maestro
Laguna Hills, Calif. — Aftermarket autosound veteran Ray Windsor will resign his position as president of German Maestro USA, which entered the car audio...
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Dish’s Joe Clayton Gets SBCA’s Arthur C. Clarke Award
Washington – The Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association (SBCA) awarded the organization’s Arthur C. Clarke Award to Joe Clayton, president and CEO of Dish. The...
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J&R’s Wahrman Joins Tri-State Camera
Brooklyn, N.Y. — J&R Music World veteran Jack Wahrman has joined Tri-State Camera, Video and Computers as marketing VP. Wahrman was J&R’s first employee,...
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Wilson Taps Two To Target Custom Channel
St. George, Utah — Wilson Electronics, the supplier of residential and in-vehicle cellular-signal boosters, is stepping up its focus on the residential custom-installation channel....
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Walmart E-tail Chief To Run Five Below
Philadelphia — Joel Anderson will leave his post as president/CEO of Walmart.com to serve as president of youth value retailer Five Below. “With Joel,...
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Noah Herschman Joins DHGate.com
Dallas – Veteran CE merchant Noah Herschman has joined online trading platform DHGate.com as COO. Herschman, who for the past 30 years has variously...
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Rockford Targets Power-Sports Markets
Tempe, Ariz. — Rockford Corp. appointed Vince Hormovitis to the newly created position of managing director of business development for power sports. In that...
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Bates Named GoPro President
San Mateo, Calif. — GoPro named Tony Bates, former Skype CEO and Microsoft executive VP, as its new president, the company said Wednesday. Bates...
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Meridian Appoints Buchanan As Chief Executive
Cambridgeshire, U.K. — Meridian Audio promoted John Buchanan to the position of chief executive, replacing Tim Ireland, who decided to leave the company. Buchanan,...
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Soundcast Adds Marketing VP Position
San Diego – Soundcast, the wireless outdoor-speaker supplier, created the new position of marketing VP and tapped industry veteran Tom Dixon to fill it....
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DataVision’s Liniado Leaving For Start-Up
New York — DataVision president Albert Liniado is leaving the Manhattan CE specialty dealer after 25 years to launch a new online wholesale business....
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Tindall Joins Climatic As Sales VP For LG
Columbia, S.C. – Marty Tindall has joined Climatic Home Products as sales VP of its LG line, working closely with president Doug Allen. “We...
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Koenig Names Core Brands’ CI Sales Director
Petaluma, Calif. — Nortek’s Core Brands has promoted James Koenig to custom installation channel sales director. Effective immediately, Koenig is responsible for the development...
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HP To Cut Up To 16K More Workers
San Francisco — Hewlett-Packard said Thursday that it will cut an additional 11,000 to 16,000 jobs, after posting a 1 percent revenue decline in...
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Core Brands Taps Roberts
Petaluma, Calif. – Core Brands appointed industry veteran Paul Roberts to the position of director of pro division sales to direct all vertical and...
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AwoX Taps Bernstein For North American Sales
Palo Alto, Calif. – AwoX appointed Steve Bernstein to the new position of North American product sales director. Bernstein will lead the company’s efforts...
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Ted Sindzinski Joins SVS, Marks Gets Promoted
Girard, Ohio — SVS, the high-performance audio products supplier, reported Ted Sindzinski has joined as marketing senior director, and Dan Marks has been promoted...
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Bearnarth Goes To P&F USA
Alpharetta, Ga. — Karl Bearnarth, former senior marketing VP for the JVC consumer A/V group, has been named marketing and home audio VP for...
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BrandSource Promotes Feldman
Tustin, Calif. – BrandSource has promoted Andrew Feldman to operations director for OutdoorSource, its outdoor products division. Feldman previously served as national sales manager...
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Detmer Joins Russound as Sales, Marketing VP
Russound has hired one the custom integration industry’s most well respected marketing professionals to drive brand development for its multi-room audio products. For more...
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NATM’s Trawick To Retire
Smithtown, N.Y. — Bill Trawick is retiring after 15 years as head of the NATM Buying Corp. and more than half a century in...
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Samsung Chairman In Stable Condition
Seoul, South Korea — Samsung Electronics’ powerful chairman and driving force Lee Kun-hee, 72, was reportedly in stable condition Monday after suffering a heart...
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Ahrendts Taking Big Bite Out Of Apple
Cupertino, Calif. — Apple’s new retail and online stores senior VP Angela Ahrendts will be amply rewarded for leaving her CEO slot at Burberry...
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Klipsch Group Promotes Duo
Indianapolis — Klipsch Group promoted Jill Escol and Matt Sommers to the newly created positions of global communications director and marketing and creative strategies...
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Tamron Realigns Sales Regions
Commack, N.Y. — Tamron USA said Monday it has restructured the company’s U.S. operations, merging the responsibilities of the previously separate consumer and industrial...
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Adachi, Ishizuka Get New Canon USA Titles
Melville, N.Y. – Joe Adachi, formerly Canon U.S.A. president and CEO, has been appointed Canon U.S.A.’s new chairman and CEO, and Yuichi Ishizuka, Canon...
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Bearnarth Leaves JVC
Wayne, N.J. — Karl Bearnarth, senior marketing VP for the JVC consumer A/V group, left the company to pursue other opportunities, the company confirmed....
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Office Depot Taps Toys‘R’Us’ Rice
Boca Raton, Fla. – Office Depot has appointed Toys“R”Us veteran Troy Rice as retail executive VP, effective April 14. He succeeds Juan Guerrero, who...
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Assurant’s Vogler Tapped For Consumer-Direct Unit
Atlanta – Assurant Solutions veteran Stacey Vogler has been named managing director of Protect Your Bubble USA, the extended-warranty provider’s direct-to-consumer insurance unit. In...
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Throgmartin Heading Bike Chain
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – Former h.h.gregg executive VP/COO Gregg Throgmartin has assumed the helm of BikeStreet, a specialty bicycle chain, as CEO. The son...
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Vance Pflanz, CE Retail Leader, Dies At 75
Sioux City, Iowa — Vance Pflanz, 75, president of Pflanz Electronics, died Thursday, March 27, at a local nursing home. BrandSource reported just before...
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Industry CEOs Among ‘World’s Greatest Leaders’
New York – Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Haier Group’s Zhang Ruimin and Apple’s Tim Cook are among the world’s greatest living leaders, Fortune Magazine has...
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Whitten Leaves Microsoft For Sonos
Santa Barbara, Calif. — Marc Whitten, Microsoft’s Xbox chief product officer and corporate VP, is leaving the company after 14 years to become chief...
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Almo Promotes VP Penney
Philadelphia — Almo today announced the promotion of Jay Penney to executive VP of its specialty appliance division from his previous post as business...
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Merrill Leaves Samsung
Ridgefield Park, N.J. — Travis Merrill, Samsung Electronics America Galaxy Tab marketing VP, has left the company after eight years, according to a letter...
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Finer Named DEG Senior Director
Los Angeles – Marc Finer, formerly DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group technical director, advances to the position of DEG senior director, the group said...
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Motorola CEO Leaving
Mountain View, Calif. – Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside will leave the company at the end of March following the recent announcement that Motorola...
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Jeannette Howe Leaves SEN
Winston-Salem, N.C. – Jeannette Howe, executive director of Nationwide Marketing Group’s Specialty Electronics Nationwide (SEN), has left the buying group. A longtime industry veteran,...
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hhgregg Promotes Web Exec
Indianapolis – hhgregg has promoted web chief Kevin Lyons from VP to senior VP of e-commerce. Lyons, a veteran of Sears and Best Buy,...
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hhgregg’s Throgmartin Resigns
Indianapolis – Gregg Throgmartin is stepping down as executive VP and COO of hhgregg, effective March 31. Throgmartin, son of the chain’s late chairman...