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VAC’s Tom Campbell Going Hollywood At HTSA 20th Anniversary Gathering
Tom Campbell, corporate director of Los Angeles’ Video & Audio Center CE chain, will join a host of headliners next week when the Home...
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Ex-Home Depot Appliance Chief Bob Baird Bonding With BrandSource
Bob Baird, who helped make The Home Depot a destination for major appliances, is lending his white-goods and retail know-how to the $14 billion...
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Change Of Venue For Azione Fall Conference
Azione Unlimited’s fall conference has a new home in Las Vegas. Originally booked at the Monte Carlo Resort, where ongoing renovations are proving problematic,...
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Nationwide Launching New Financial Training Series
The Nationwide Marketing Group has developed a new financial training program to bring member dealers up to speed on retail payment. Dubbed “Dollars &...
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Come Together, Right Now, Over NATM
NATM Buying Corp., the 11-member buying group comprised of some of the nation’s largest regional electronics and appliance retailers, gathered for its annual vendor...
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First Look: BrandSource’s New Video Content Service
BrandSource, the $14 billion buying group, is rolling out AVB/TV, a new streaming video service first announced at its annual summer convention last month....
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Nationwide East Boosting Social-Media Engagement For Dealers
Nationwide East, the 22-state chapter of the Nationwide Marketing Group, is reporting early success with its just-launched social-media program. The initiative, introduced at the buying...
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Mega Group USA Slates Dealer Training Retreats
Mega Group USA, the 1,800-member buying group for independent dealers, is stepping up its Mega U leadership training program for store owners and senior...
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ProSource, BrandSource Enjoy Solid Sales Gains
Major appliance sales at BrandSource, and custom installation and CE volume at ProSource, have generated good growth this year, the buying groups’ senior management...
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Azione Adds Six Dealer Members
Azione Unlimited, the integrator-focused educational buying group, has added six new members for a total of 165 dealers and 44 vendors. The new additions,...
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ProSource Adds Slateplan To Ease Installation Estimates
ProSource dealers and integrators will be getting some help developing designs and estimates for their customers’ installation projects. The specialty A/V and CI buying...
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BrandSource Members Must ‘Break From Status Quo’ To Grow
“It’s all about the members,” was the mantra that BrandSource CEO Jim Ristow and his management team kept repeating during a presentation yesterday at...
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The Digital Olympics: BrandSource Pushes Digital Marketing & Debuts avbTV At Convention
BrandSource kicked off its convention Monday afternoon in Las Vegas with chief marketing officer John White emphasizing the importance of digital marketing programs and...
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Mega Group Launches Exclusive Serta, Tempur Sealy Programs
Mega Group USA, the 1,700-dealer buying organization for furniture, bedding, appliance and CE independents, has introduced two new bedding programs from Serta and Tempur...
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AVB/BrandSource Set For Furniture And Bedding Expo
AVB/BrandSource members will once again descend upon Las Vegas for a three-day furniture and bedding products convention. The expo will showcase the latest exhibits...
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Mega Group Wraps Up Fall Show
Mega Group USA, the 1,700-member buying organization for independent furniture, bedding, appliance and CE dealers, has ended a four-day run at Nashville’s Music City...
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Nationwide Raises The Bar On Dealer Support
The $15 billion Nationwide Marketing Group unveiled a series of innovative merchandising and marketing solutions last week at its biannual PrimeTime meeting and buy...
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BrandSource Preps For Late-August Show
BrandSource is gearing up for a late-summer return to Las Vegas, when the $14 billion merchandising group for independent dealers will descend on Caesars...
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HTSN Adds Paradigm/Anthem and iPort/Sonarrary To Vendor Roster
Home Technology Specialists Nationwide (HTSN), the A/V specialty and custom integration division of the $15 billion Nationwide Marketing Group, has added two more manufacturers...
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Smart-Home Authority Jim Carroll Joins ProSource’s IoT Brain Trust
ProSource, the industry’s largest A/V specialty and custom integration buying group, has brought home-automation expert Jim Carroll on board to advise its Internet of...
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HTSA Sets Fall Conference
Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA), the national retail and custom integration buying group, will hold its 2016 Fall Conference Oct.18-20 at the Westin...
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Nationwide East Adds Digital Marketing Division
Nationwide East, the regional arm of Nationwide Marketing Group, announced a new digital marketing division to further support its members. The new division gives...
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Whirlpool To Sponsor Nationwide NeXtGen Event
The Nationwide Marketing Group’s next NeXtGen millennial gathering, to be held at the upcoming PrimeTime show in Nashville, will be sponsored by Whirlpool. NeXtGen,...
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ProSource Adds 21 More Members
ProSource, the industry’s largest buying group for the specialty A/V and CI channels, has added 21 custom integrators to its membership ranks. The new...
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Mega Group USA Snags Digital Doyen Erik Qualman For Fall Show Keynote
Erik Qualman, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated author and authority on digital leadership and reputation, will deliver the keynote address at Mega Group USA’s fall convention...
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Mobile Electronics Changes Name To Mobile Electronics Association
Mobile Electronics, the industry organization for 12-volt retailers, announced it has changed its name to the Mobile Electronics Association (MEA). This is not the...
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Google, Facebook To Present At Nationwide PrimeTime Show
The Nationwide Marketing Group’s revamped seminar series, Nationwide Learning Academy, will feature speakers from Google and Facebook when the program returns to the semi-annual PrimeTime...
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Azione Organizes Regional Teleconference Program
Azione Unlimited wants to keep the conversation going long after its semiannual conferences conclude. To that end, the education and buying group for custom...
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ProSource Launches Public Website
The new face of ProSource can be found online. That’s where the industry’s largest specialty buying group for A/V dealers and system integrators has...
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Wynonna Judd To Play Nationwide’s PrimeTime Show
Taking full advantage of its Nashville venue, the Nationwide Marketing Group has snagged a major country star to kick off its PrimeTime meeting and...
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Azione Tops $500M Mark In Group Sales
The addition of five new dealers to Azione Unlimited has put the four-year-old buying group for custom retailers and integrators past the half-billion-dollar mark...
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ProSource Names Sony Vendor Of The Year
Sony copped top honors at ProSource’s annual spring meeting this month. The five-day event, held by the $4.5 billion specialty tech buying group, drew...
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Nationwide Opens Registration For PrimeTime Summer Show
Registration has begun for the Nationwide Marketing Group’s PrimeTime gathering this summer. The $15 billion buying and marketing organization for independent dealers will return...
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ProSource Ponders IoT Pricing Puzzle At Spring Meeting
Defining the IoT market, and figuring out how to make money in it, was near the top of the agenda at ProSource’s annual Spring...
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Nationwide Caps Off Successful Regional Meeting In N.C.
Nationwide Marketing Group, the electronics and appliance buying group with more than 3,500 members, recently capped off its twice-annual regional meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C.,...
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BrandSource To Hold Inaugural Under-40 Event
BrandSource, the $14 billion buying group, is looking to groom the next-generation of industry leaders with its first-ever Young Professionals University (YPU) gathering. The...
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Mega Group Caps Dealer Retreat With Pearl Jam Tix
Mega Group USA kicked out the jams last month when it capped off its inaugural Business Academy Leadership Retreat by treating a dozen attendees to a...
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NPD’s Baker, Value Electronics’ Zohn, To Present At ProSource Summit
ProSource, the $4.5 billion tech specialty buying group, will gather the troops next week for its annual five-day Spring Meeting, to be held this...
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Three ProSource Members Join The $10M+ Club
Three members of the ProSource buying group have moved into the bigger leagues. By approval of its board, the A/V specialty and custom install...
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Azione Adds Another Five Dealers
Azione Unlimited has added five new dealers to its member roster, raising year-to-date retailer additions to 15 and the total dealer count to 150....
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HTSA Renews Energy At Spring Meeting, Adds Masterclass Training Series
HTSA is celebrating its 20th anniversary—but not by looking back and reminiscing about the good old days. This year’s spring meeting location, The Ritz-Carlton...
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Nationwide Expands Newspaper Circular Service
The Nationwide Marketing Group has added Banner Marketing to its growing contingent of member service providers. The company, which made its Nationwide debut last...