What a great event it was. A special thanks to all our vendors sponsors and to all our top retailers that came out and made this event such a success.
Archives for July 2016
Walkaround: The New Age Summit Vendor Pavilion
Here are some of the vendors who showed their wares at this week’s New Age Electronics Retail Summit. Be sure to look for more coverage on dealerscope.com and in the Dealerscope Today newsletter to follow on the New Age Summit.
New Age Takes the Omni-Market Experience Up a Notch
The 2016 New Age Electronics Retail Dealer Summit kicked off July 20 at Hollywood, Calif.’s Loews Hollywood Hotel with promises from the distributor’s top New Age and SYNNEX executives that the roughly 100 retailers represented here would leave the meeting armed with the tools to enhance what Fred Towns, New Age Electronics’ president, termed as the “omni-market” experience, across the board, for several of their key customer demographics.
New Age Going Hollywood (Again)
Merchants and vendors are converging on Hollywood this week for New Age Electronics’ sixth annual Retail Dealer Summit.
Towns: Why New Age Armed Dealers with Channel Stats
Fred Towns, New Age Electronics president, spoke to Dealerscope about some fresh approaches that were taken at this year’s New Age Retail Summit, along with discussing new vendors, emerging technologies and the buzz he got from the 100 dealers who were represented at the event July 19 and 20 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in California.
What We Learned At New Age Electronics’ Retail Summit
At first glance, observers (i.e., family and friends) might think a business trip to Hollywood would be filled with sun and fun.
New Age Electronics Adds ZEISS Multimedia Devices to Deliver Innovative Virtual Reality Offering to US Retailers
Hollywood, CA (from 2016 New Age Electronics Retail Dealer Summit) – July 20, 2016 – New Age Electronics, a leading distributor of consumer electronics and gaming products and services and a division of SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), announced today that it has signed an agreement with ZEISS Multimedia Devices, an internationally-leading technology enterprise operating in the optics and optoelectronics industries, to distribute the newly launched VR ONE Plus virtual reality headset to the US retail channel. The VR ONE Plus is Zeiss Multimedia Devices’ second-generation virtual reality headset and provides an innovative, high-quality VR experience that is compatible with a wide range of mobile devices.
New Age Electronics Teams with littleBits to Deliver Interactive Educational Products to US Retailers and Educators
Leading consumer electronics distributor adds innovative products that inspire users to create new inventions
Hollywood, CA (from 2016 New Age Electronics Retail Dealer Summit) – July 20, 2016 – New Age Electronics, a leading distributor of consumer electronics and gaming products and services and a division of SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), announced today that it has signed an agreement with littleBits(TM), the hardware startup that empowers 21st-Century teaching and learning with a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks, to distribute its portfolio to the US retail and education channels. The agreement includes a variety of littleBits products for the home and classroom that drive excitement for invention-based learning and help children unleash creativity, while embracing STEM/STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) and preparing them for the jobs of tomorrow.