AVPro Global, Inc., parent company of AVPro Edge, Murideo, and Bullet Train audio/video distribution products, has announced the acquisition of the Home Audio division of AudioControl from AAMP Holdings, Inc., expanding the AVPro Global footprint in the residential, commercial distributed audio and media-room industry market sectors.
As a result of the deal, AVPro Global will assume ownership of the AudioControl Home business, which will rebrand to AudioControl Pro. AAMP will retain its AudioControl Vehicle Technology business with no change to its operations.
“The acquisition of the AudioControl Home business unit, as an award-winning company with a 45-year history of designing and building superb audio equipment, complements our existing AVPro Edge, Murideo, and Bullet Train high-performance brand positions in both the residential and commercial audio/video distribution spaces. [It] provides AVPro with an additional growth platform while diversifying our penetration into distributed audio markets,” says Jeff Murray, AVPro’s CEO and founder.
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Murray adds, “We believe this transaction will provide truly unique synergies that create value for the customers of both companies and look forward to AudioControl’s best-in-class management team, and skilled and experienced workforce joining the AVPro Global family.”
It had been roughly 16 months since AudioControl was previously acquired by AAMP Global last April, leading to the departure of longtime president Alex Camara.
The AudioControl Home Audio Division product line – now AudioControl Pro – includes power amplifiers, multizone amplifiers, network amplifiers, 70-volt amplifiers, single-zone amplifiers, subwoofer amplifiers, AV processors, AV receivers and AV signal extenders, the company notes.
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The company, which has been based in Seattle for 45-plus years, again fared well in Commercial Integrator’s sister-site CE Pro 100 Brand Analysis in those categories. It was a ‘Bullet Brand’ in the Audio Amplifiers category (fourth place, 49%), and earned solid market share in Home Theater Processors (second, 37%) and AV Receivers (fourth, 34%). The company just announced it had entered the auto speaker and subwoofer market.
New owner AVPro Global is a privately held American company headquartered in Sioux Falls, S.D., with satellite offices in St. Petersburg, Fla.; Green Bay, Wis.; a European office in Bratislava, Slovakia; a Far East office in Shenzhen, China; and now through the acquisition of AudioControl Home, Seattle.
The three AVPro Global video-centric brands – AVPro Edge Edge, Bullet Train and Murideo – combine their respective strengths to create the fastest-growing AV signal distribution company in the residential and commercial systems integration spaces, perfectly complementing Murray’s vision, according to the company, “To be recognized as the best AV signal distribution and control products and services company on the planet.”
Another version of this article originally appeared on our sister-site CEPro on August 8, 2023. It has since been updated for Commercial Integrator’s audience.
