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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...
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HTSA Adds Members, Vendors On Eve Of Spring Show
The Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA) is welcoming nine lucky integrators and vendors into its ranks. Lucky, not just for the advantages the...
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Nationwide Adds Electronic Price Tags
Independent dealers can now change pricing and other shelf-label information on the fly, thanks to a new addition to the Nationwide Marketing Group’s vendor...
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Nationwide Considering VR For Furniture Sales
The Nationwide Marketing Group is looking into virtual reality as a showroom selling tool for furniture. According to member services executive VP Frank Sandtner,...
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ProSource Adds 19 Members
ProSource, the A/V specialty and integration arm of the BrandSource buying group, has added 19 custom integrators to its membership ranks from across the...
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Mega Wraps Up Orlando Convention
Mega Group USA closed the book on yet another convention for its buying group members. The biannual convention, held March 11-14 at the Disney...
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Fun In The Florida Sun At Nationwide PrimeTime Kickoff
Shrugging off the threat of showers, the Nationwide Marketing Group held a rousing kickoff to its four-day PrimeTime convention in Orlando yesterday. On the...
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Nationwide East May Top 1,000 Members
Nationwide East, the regional chapter of the Nationwide Marketing Group, reported “another year of tremendous growth in 2015,” and anticipates breaking the thousand-member threshold...
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Nationwide Stresses Localized Support On Eve Of PrimeTime Show
Ten days out from its spring PrimeTime show, the Nationwide Marketing Group is reminding independent dealers of the localized support it delivers despite its...
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Former Best Buy Holding AudioVisions Joins HTSA
The Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA), the national retail and custom integration buying group, has added California integrator AudioVisions to its member roster....
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NECO Divisions Now Allied With BrandSource
Three of four chapters of the NECO Alliance, one of the country’s largest appliance buying co-ops, have formed an alliance with the BrandSource buying organization....
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BrandSource ‘Just Getting Started’ In Appliances
“We are just getting started,” BrandSource CEO Jim Ristow told the buying group’s electronics and appliance dealers yesterday in a speech that underscored the...
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ProSource Riding Home Automation Wave
ProSource, the $4.5 billion CE specialty division of the BrandSource buying group, reported solid prospects for the year following a strong 2015. ProSource president/CEO...
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Mega Group Gearing Up For Spring Show
Mega Group USA, the 1,700-member buying organization for independent furniture, bedding, appliance and CE dealers, will head to Orlando, Fla., March 11-14 for its...
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BrandSource Launches RTO, ProSource Initiatives On Eve Of Spring Show
As dealers and vendors gather this weekend in Orlando, Fla., for BrandSource’s annual Spring Summit & Expo, the $12 billion CE, appliance and home...
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Azione Welcomes Deezer
Azione Unlimited, the buying group for custom retailers and integrators, has added music-streaming service Deezer to its line card. With this roster addition, dealers...
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Nationwide’s ‘Prepare For Share’ Prepares For Growth
The Nationwide Marketing Group is planning new things for its “Prepare for Share” (PFS) program, and the group said members can receive exclusive deals...
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LG To Sponsor Millennial Meet At Nationwide Show
The younger tech-set will be raising a glass to LG Electronics next month when the Nationwide Marketing Group’s PrimeTime show rolls into Orlando. That’s...
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Glikes: Partnerships Create Profits At Azione
Richard Glikes, president of Azione Unlimited, counts this month as the fourth anniversary of the buying group of integrators, dealers and vendors he founded,...
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Azione Adds Five More Dealers
Azione Unlimited, the education and buying group for custom retailers and integrators, has brought five new dealer members on board, bringing the total to...
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ProSource Sets Ambitious 2016 Agenda
ProSource, the $4.5 billion A/V specialty wing of the BrandSource buying group, has laid out an ambitious game plan for further growth in the...
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Azione Taps One Firefly For Marketing And Design Services
The Azione Unlimited buying group has brought in a new vendor to provide affordable marketing, system design, engineering and consulting services to its 137...
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Mega Group Staffs Up
Mega Group USA, the 1,700-member buying organization for independent furniture, CE, appliance and mattress dealers, has added five new positions to support the group’s...