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Martin Fournier Joins Chauvet

Martin Fournier Joins Chauvet

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PARIS – (For Immediate Release) – Chauvet has announced that Martin Fournier has joined the company as its European Sales Director.  Fournier is an experienced lighting industry figure in Europe, having spent the last 22 years serving the professional lighting market in Europe.  He comes to Chauvet from Harman International, where he most recently served as that company’s Sales Director for France and Benelux Professional Solutions.  Fournier began his career in 1995 with Martin Professional.

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Robe MegaPointes for X-Factor UK

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LONDON – For the second year running, Robe’s newest moving lights – including the just launched MegaPointe multi-purpose moving light – featured prominently on the UK’s much anticipated 2017 X Factor final series. Six weeks of nail-biting live show excitement with lighting designed by Tim Routledge … will reveal some incredible singing talent and culminate on the final at Wembley Arena this weekend.

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Perth Concert Hall Installs Silent Elation SixPar 300s

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PERTH – Elation Professional products are supported in Australia and New Zealand by distributor Lexair Entertainment, who earlier this year were involved in the refresh of the entire Perth Concert Hall lighting rig on Australia’s west coast. Made possible through the State Government’s Department of Culture and the Arts Infrastructure Improvement Program, the lighting project saw Head of Lighting, Alex Spartalis, with a lot of decisions to make. The choice to make the Perth Concert Hall home to Elation SixPar 300 RGBAW+UV LED fixtures was not one of the difficult ones. With the whole rig headed to LED, Alex had to audition a huge range of luminaires, and the SixPar 300s were an easy winner.

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Claypaky Lighting Fixtures and grandMA2 Consoles Support “Nu Skin global LIVE!” Event

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SALT LAKE CITY  – The premier anti-aging company Nu Skin has grown from humble beginnings in Provo in 1984, to a NYSE listed enterprise that distributes its products in 54 markets worldwide through a network of approximately 1.2 million independent distributors. Every two years, Nu Skin holds a four-day experience that combines philanthropy, business sessions, recognition and entertainment in a dynamic mix.

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Le Maitre Celebrates 40th Anniversary with Party at Wynn, Las Vegas

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LAS VEGAS – This year Le Maitre is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Since 1977, the company has been manufacturing pyrotechnics, smoke, haze and flame machines and special effects. Le Maitre now has over 1,500 state-of-the-art products in its extensive product range. To mark the anniversary, Le Maitre held a party at Intrigue at Wynn, Las Vegas to thank their customers, dealers and industry friends for all their support.

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Straz Center Gains Time And Saves Power With Philips Lighting

[caption id="attachment_281052" align="alignnone" width="800"]Philips Showline fixtures are installed to upgrade the lighting rig in the David A. Straz Center's TECO Theater in Tampa, Florida[/caption]

TAMPA, USA – Philips Lighting (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that the David A. Straz Center in Tampa is enjoying significant savings in labor and power costs after upgrading its TECO Theater lighting rig with LED products from Philips Entertainment Lighting’s Showline range. The second largest performing arts complex in the south-eastern United States, the Straz Center is home to the Patel Conservatory, one of the country’s leading education facilities for theater, music and dance.

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The Bodyguard in Madrid

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MADRID – After 647 shows and a massively successful run of almost two years at the Beatrix Theatre in Utrecht – delighting more than 800,000 fans – Stage Entertainment Holland’s blockbuster production of “The Bodyguard” has opened at the Teatro Coliseum in Madrid. Imaginative and eye-catching lighting is again designed by Luc Peumans of the Belgian mixed-media visual design practice, Painting with Light.

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Hyatt Regency Orange County

Going to the Parnelli Awards? Book Your Room Today

ANAHEIM, CA – A special block of rooms has been set aside for all those live event professionals attending the Parnelli Awards gala, to be held Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 during Winter NAMM. Suites and regular rooms at the Hyatt Regency Orange County can be accessed through the ParnelliAwards.com website via the Hotel link on the home page.

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LiteGear’s LiteMat+ Plus Supports Behind the Scenes

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NYC – LiteGear Inc., designers and builders of LED lighting products for professionals in the Cinema, TV, and HD Video industries, made its first Pledge-a-Product donation to Behind the Scenes on the show floor at LDI 2017. Pioneers behind the popularization of flexible LED lighting for use in Cinema and TV lighting applications, LiteGear presented a check for $7750 representing a percentage of the profits from sales of their new flagship fixtures, LiteMat+ Plus, to support the charity.

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Feeling the Energy at the Wärmespeicher

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GERMANY – Eighty Anolis ArcSource 4MC LED fixtures were specified to illuminate a new heat storage tank (Wärmespeicher) installed in the Drispenstedt residential district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany. The impressive 17.5 meter high, 4 meter wide structure which resembles a quirky piece of contemporary sculpture was designed by pape+pape Architekten from Kassel. It contains an internal cylindrical water feature which is illuminated by the ArcSources which are programmed to indicate how much of the energy generated from the nearby natural gas-fired combined heat and power plant (CHP) … is currently stored and available for use.

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