Stampede Presentation Products is celebrating a year of “record-setting growth” at CEDIA Expo, taking place this week in Denver, Colorado.
The distribution company says over the past year it greatly increased its network of manufacturers, product lines, and credit opportunities for dealers in a recent press release from the CEDIA trade show.
Stampede now has a dealer network of over 11,500 partners. This year, the company added manufacturers like Canon Security, Circle Technologies, Furman, BlueBOLT, LG Electronics, Lumens, Marshall Electronics, Vaddio, VDO360, Sharp Consumer, and Wyrestorm, among many others.
Stampede also says its sales are growing in all three of its primary product categories: displays, projectors, and unified communications, which the company says is by far the fastest growing segment of its business.
“Since last year’s CEDIA show we added 20 new product lines and several new core platforms that traditional AV products can attach to,” says Kevin Kelly, owner, president, and COO of Stampede.
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The company also boasts its expanded face-to-face training, online learning, and credit programs available to qualified dealers.
“Last year we increased our available monthly credit line by 28 percent, enabling us to serve as a bank to our dealer partners,” adds Kelly. “This year we are opening a new southwest regional office and adding to our field sales team network to increase the number of contacts we can have with dealers and their customers.”
The company is also grateful that there seems to be a shift happening in the AV industry. The changing times can often be a challenge, but the recent trends and standards in the industry are only playing to Stampede’s strengths.
“At a time when the traditional AV industry is maturing, a new personalized industry is rising up to take its place, one that is built upon the ideas of connecting, integrating, and sharing devices in entirely new eco-systems built around highly customized software applications,” says Kelly. “This shift is challenging our industry to stop using the terms ‘audio and video’ and start using the terms ‘see, hear and control’ in order to understand the business opportunities that this shift is creating.”
