On the Move

RENTON, WA – LMG, a national provider of video, audio, lighting and LED support, has opened an office and warehouse in the Seattle, WA area.  The company’s other locations operate out of Las Vegas, Nashville, Dallas, Detroit, and the headquarters in Orlando. LMG has hired industry veteran Mark Allen, pictured here, as the Seattle location’s general manager.

LAS VEGAS  AAdyn Technology, LLC (AAdynTech) added two industry veterans to its sales team, naming Joey Amman Western Regional Sales Manager and Joe Boda Eastern Regional Sales Manager. AAdynTech supplies LED lighting fixtures to the film, television, and mobile production industries.

MUENCHENSTEIN, Switzerland – ACD promoted Brice Lemaire to Sales Manager – European Market. He is based out of the company’s ACDCryo offices in Switzerland.

KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites named Shay Simpson senior accountant. Simpson, who has 13 years of entertainment industry experience, will manage all aspect of the accounting systems while developing and maintaining accounting policies and procedures. She will be based at the company’s headquarters in Knoxville. 

AMSTERDAM — Philips, which split its business operations into medical and lighting entities back in Sept. 2014, with the hopes of spinning off its lighting business, has not been able to find a buyer willing to pay what it wants for the whole lighting entity, which analysts now value at about $5.8 billion.

KORTRIJK, Belgium — Barco NV has acquired all shares of Medialon Inc., according to a joint letter to Medialon customers from both George Stromeyer at Barco and Alex Carru at Medialon. The announcement follows several other big M&A deals among companies in the AV technology sector recently, including H.I.G. Capital’s acquisition of AVI-SPL, Diversified Systems’ acquisitions of Technical Innovation and The Systems Group and Mitel’s acquistion of Polycom.

LONDON – d3 Technologies announced a number of global new hires and two new office locations as the company rapidly expands worldwide. Pictured here from left, on top row, are Fleurette Vincent, Desmond Yim, Chrysant Liu and Lars Paape. From left, bottom row, are Christian Dickens, Andy Briggs, Mit Patel, Ryan Sklar.

FARMINGDALE, NY — Avolites Ltd named Farmingdale, NY-based Group One Ltd as the sole US distributor for its Ai range of media servers. As of May 1t, Group One is now promoting, selling and supporting Avolites’ new Ai R Series media servers, which boast a long list of powerful features and hardware, alongside the manufacturer’s existing lighting control products, all designed and manufactured in the UK.

SUN VALLEY, CA – GLP has appointed the company Fourleaf Inc. to handle its market leading LED and discharge lighting fixtures in Japan. Described by GLP’s Sales Director, Asia, Søren Storm as “young, hungry and with a high energy level” he adds that Fourleaf has further credentials in that the company already has in-depth knowledge of the catalogue, and the existing users in the territory. Michael Muenz, GLP General Manager, Asia, is pictured here shaking hands with Fourleaf president and CEO, Shinichi Kikukawa.

BUFORD, GA – Analog Way opened its new headquarters for the Americas in Buford, GA, which is in Gwinnett County outside Atlanta. The 15,000 square-foot facility, located at 3047 Summer Oak Place in Buford, will house operations for the company’s staff devoted to sales, administration, finance, IT, technical support and product repair, and also includes a warehouse for the company’s products. The company’s new HQ for the Americas comes after 13 years of focusing its U.S. operations in NYC.