UK - Grant Bales-Smith has been appointed to the newly-created position of Philips Entertainment sales manager - UK, Benelux & Scandinavia, commencing 1 February 2010.

Michael Goldberg, sales director for Europe comments, "The formation of Philips Entertainment as a global group provides us with a great opportunity to continue establishing and building the brands of Strand and Selecon in the European market as leaders in their field. Grant joins us at a time of renewal for Strand and he will lead the sales force in the UK, Scandinavia and Benelux to re-develop a strong dealer network to increase our market share and push new products forward."

For the past eight years, Bales-Smith has been working for Zero 88, initially taking responsibility for the UK market before ac

UK - Calibre UK, which this year celebrates its 21st year in operation has opened a new sales office located at the Oxford Science Park in Oxford and has appointed Mark Lusby as product manager, broadcast & proAV.

Lusby has over 30 years experience in technical sales, exhibition, project and product management working in at various companies such as Samualsons, Teletape Video, JVC Professional Europe and Ultra Electronics.

"I'm delighted to have joined Calibre, a company with a long established reputation as a manufacturer of high quality image processing solutions used in a va

USA - Alcorn McBride, Inc. has promoted Tommy Bridges to the position of sales manager.Bridges has been a senior account manager at Alcorn McBride Inc for the past six years and has 20 years of experience in the AV industry, beginning when he sold AV equipment as a manufacturer's rep for Sony, Panasonic, and other industry giants. As sales manager, Bridges will focus on the Western United States and will manage Alcorn McBride's relationships with many of its international distribution partners.

"We are fortunate to be in a growth mode," said Jeremy Scheinberg, COO of Alcorn

Czech Republic - Robe Lighting has announced a series of new appointments in a planned management restructuring exercise designed to position the company for a new decade of growth and expansion.

Robe Lighting has a new operations director and sales director, while LED manufacturer and sister company Anolis gets a new sales director.

"This will help take Robe and Anolis to new levels of quality and excellence, and continue the trends of innovation and service that has made both companies so successful," states Robe's owner/founder and CEO, Josef Valchar.

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USA - Keith R. Klawitter, a professional audio veteran and founder of KRK Systems, a loudspeaker manufacturing company, has announced a new venture, KK labs. The new company, based in Huntington Beach, California, is focused on the design and manufacture of high-end audio products for the recording studio and live professional markets.

KK labs is off to a flying start, with a variety of pro audio product offerings already in place, including the DS8 studio monitor, TAZ15c stage monitor, DSP control and Class D power amplifier modules. Klawitter informally unveiled the new DS8, a DSP/E

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