by D. Craig MacCormack | Jan 25, 2018 | News
As commercial AV integrators become more successful, they often face a decision that’s likely to determine their future. [related] These days, it seems almost every client business is working on its worldwide strategy. To take advantage of global expansion benefits,...
by D. Craig MacCormack | Jan 24, 2018 | Insights, News
I was talking recently to the VP of marketing for a company that builds MNEC and sound masking products about the state of the industry, among other things. It struck me how many times in the half-hour or so we chatted that we kept coming back to how splintered the AV...
by D. Craig MacCormack | Jan 22, 2018 | News
AVIXA’s monthly Pro AV Business Index, the gauge of the health of the AV industry, ended 2017 relatively flat in both sales and employment, with many survey respondents saying the traditional holiday season slowdown kept them from seeing substantial growth. In the...
by D. Craig MacCormack | Jan 17, 2018 | Projects
It’s probably unfair to say the folks from Westbury National and Applied Electronics are actually enemies, but they recently followed the adage “keep your friends close and your enemies closer” when they worked together on a massive AV installation at Canon’s 250,000...
by D. Craig MacCormack | Jan 15, 2018 | Insights, News
When we published our 2018 State of the Industry report, two demographic areas jumped out: our AV industry respondents were about 12 percent female and almost 60 percent of them were at least 45 years old. But there’s a third group that we didn’t address in our survey...
