by Tom LeBlanc | Sep 29, 2016 | News
From its Reinheitsgebot standards for filling beer steins to its extremely competitive national soccer team, Germany has a lot going for it. Still, a lot of folks in the AV industry would like some insight into why North America’s largest integration firm...
by Tom LeBlanc | Sep 27, 2016 | News
The AV integration industry’s largest integration firm is getting bigger … and more global. When AVI-SPL and its $577 million in annual revenue were acquired in April 2016 by an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity firm that manages more than $19...
by Tom LeBlanc | Sep 16, 2016 | News
Derek Goldstein was never a DJ. He wasn’t in a band. He never even worked as a roadie. The 36-year-old’s background doesn’t seem to fit the narrative for AV integration industry company founders. Instead of pushing an AV cart, Goldstein spent his...
by Tom LeBlanc | Sep 16, 2016 | Insights, News
It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes or Woodward and Bernstein to notice that something is up with Kramer. The AV solutions manufacturer appears restless and ambitious.It’s not just that Kramer, which had done little more than dabble in automation, launched at...
by Tom LeBlanc | Sep 8, 2016 | Insights, News
We’ve all been there. So much B2B communication these days happens via video calls to the point where sometimes we forget we’re on camera. Maybe it’s your colleague on the other end picking their teeth … or maybe it’s you who unwittingly...