Bluesound Professional has named distribution partners to manage sales and marketing for the brand in Switzerland, Germany and Australia/New Zealand. The appointments follow the announcement of a suite of network streamers, amplifiers, speakers, controllers and accessories to ship in Q3 2019.
Switzerland’s Showsupply is a leading distributor of A/V products for both live sound and commercial installations. Within the installation market they supply to both the hospitality and corporate markets and they are known for the quality of their technical support and training as well as their complete portfolio of equipment from leading commercial and professional manufacturers from all over the world.
‘We are proud to be among the first to carry this innovative and promising product lineup,’ says Showsupply CEO, Christian Häfliger,. ‘Bluesound Professional takes software technologies that have been proven in the residential integration space and places it into hardware solutions that are appropriate for commercial integration use cases. We think we can do a lot to achieve significant market share with this formula so the future is bright.’
Prodytel is a supplier of networked audio, video and control products for the conferencing and corporate markets in Germany. With recent strategic expansions into the hospitality market, Bluesound Professional products will be an integral part of this new direction. Prodytel distributes a wide range of audio, video, and control products which are chosen to form a complete solutions portfolio for integration, complemented by some of comprehensive product and technical training and support programs.
‘When I heard about the idea to leverage existing wireless home audio equipment into a professional product line I was excited from the beginning,’ says Prodytel CEO, Christian Carrero. ‘It meant that the technologies are proven and as The Network becomes more and more a standard in our industry, it just seems logical to apply those technologies in the commercial A/V market. With Bluesound Professional, we have a partner with long experience in networked audio and with Graeme Harrison heading its professional division we have an industry veteran with a lot of experience in the A/V world, so we are excited to launch this new brand in Germany together with the Bluesound Professional team.’
Formed by Ken Dwyer whose previous history includes ownership and leadership of Audio Products Group, Connected Media is a relatively new name in the field of residential and commercial audio, video and control distribution in Australia and New Zealand that aims to represent a tight, carefully chosen group of innovative, differentiated suppliers to allow it to offer modern solutions to its customers.
‘We are excited to start working with these distribution partners, as they are all leaders in the industry in their respective territories,’ says Bluesound Professional VP and General Manager, Graeme Harrison. ‘To have them so readily and enthusiastically commit to the Bluesound Professional brand with the knowledge and perspective they have of the industry validates for us that we have something special here.’
