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Core Brands Promotes Bret Jacob to Director of Builder Sales

Core Brands Promotes Bret Jacob to Director of Builder Sales

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PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA, – Underscoring its commitment to accelerate growth in the builder channel, leading automation, audio and power solutions provider Core Brands today announced the promotion of Bret Jacob to Director of Builder Sales, with responsibility for developing and implementing the company’s channel programs in the home and commercial building segments.  In this new position, Jacob reports directly to Core Brands Vice President of Sales Jeff Costello.

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Serge Grimaux (l), Roland Wassink (r)

Intellitix Acquires Controlling stake in LOC Pay Systems

NETHERLANDS – Intellitix, global RFID cashless payment and access control innovator, has acquired a controlling stake in Netherlands based LOC Pay Systems, 9th January, 2017. LOC Pay Systems supplied 200 festivals and venues across Europe in 2016 with its token-based payment system and will continue to operate from its head office in Lochem, Netherlands, retaining its 13 full time employees under the management of CEO Roland Wassink.

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Mutek Mexico a Burst of Creativity with Elation Lighting

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MEXICO CITY – Mutek is a unique festival that celebrates the inspirational power behind digital creativity while promoting the cutting edge in electronic music and the digital arts. It originated in Montreal in 2000 and after expanding internationally a Mexican edition has taken place each year in Mexico City since 2003. The thirteenth edition of Mutek Mexico took place from October 19-23 and was one of the largest to date with creative digital expression spread across ten locations around Mexico City.

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Spiiders for Placebo Tour

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LONDON -Leading London based rental company Colour Sound Experiment was the first in the UK to purchase Robe’s brand new Spiider LED WashBeam moving light – with 30 being delivered directly after the PLASA expo in London in October. These went straight out on the Placebo “Retrospective” tour, with show visuals designed by Jvan Morandi. The tour is a showcase of the band’s ground-breaking work from 20 years at the forefront of indie and alt.rock.

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Image Production Services Creates Concert Looks For Nutramax with Chauvet Professional

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LANCASTER, SC – It’s become routine for Nutramax to earn praise for being one of the “best places to work”.  There’s a good reason for this; the global maker of dietary joint supplements is known for its emphasis on supporting employees through team building. A good example of this is its tradition of all-embracing Christmas parties. These carefully planned affairs include bountiful food, beautiful decorations, top flight entertainment and, this December, a stunning light and video show by Image Productions Services, using CHAUVET Professional fixtures and LED video panels.

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Performance Environment Design Group (PEDG) Rebrands as Nimblist

LANCASTER, PA — Performance Environment Design Group LLC (PEDG), a Lancaster, PA-based lighting and production design company that began as a partnership in 2000 between Justin Collie and Spike Brant, announced that it has changed its name to Nimblist. Since its founding, as PEDG and under a previous name, the company has created immersive entertainment experiences for the NFL, Bon Jovi and Pearl Jam, among others.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers Launch North American Leg of ‘The Getaway Tour’ with Elaborate Kinetic Light Installation

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NEW ORLEANS – After more than three decades on the road, the Red Hot Chili Peppers show no sign of slowing down. In fact, the band is doing just the opposite, as they wrapped up their four-month European leg of “The Getaway Tour” and recently began their North American leg with a show in San Antonio, Texas. With what has been called one of the largest kinetic light installations in touring history, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have literally lit the path for a new concert-goer experience.

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TSL Lighting Strengthens Inventory with Investment in HARMAN Products

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LONDON – HARMAN Professional Solutions, the leading audio, lighting, video and control products and systems company, announced today that UK lighting rental supplier TSL Lighting has invested in a large quantity of Martin MAC Vipers to its rental stock. The investment includes the award-winning MAC Viper Profile and also the industry standard framing fixture – the MAC Viper Performance. Available for immediate rental, the MAC Vipers are now in stock at TSL’s base in Gatwick and have already been specified on a wide range of forthcoming rental projects by several lighting designers.

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Blizzard Lighting Colorise Sky LED Par Can

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WAUKESHA, WI. – Colorise™ Sky fixtures come fitted with 7x 15W high output 6-in-1 RGBAW+UV LEDs with a 25° beam angle. Loaded with our built-in AnyFi™ wireless DMX receiver which can flawlessly support both Skywire™ and W-DMX™ wireless DMX signal types for ultimate wireless DMX connectivity capability. In addition, the internal Intelion™ Lithium-ion battery system makes this fixture ultimately durable and portable.

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'Five Guys Named Moe'

Firefly FloppyFlex on Stage for ‘Five Guys Named Moe’

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Clarke Peters’ jukebox musical Five Guys Named Moe, featuring R&B pioneer Louis Jordan’s greatest hits, has been delighting audiences at the Festival Square Theatre, Edinburgh. Called a “Christmas Carol in zoot suits,” the dazzling new production of the hit West End and Broadway musical features a cabaret set that includes 32 meters of the new Digital RGB FloppyFlex by Firefly.

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