Projectors

AV distributor Shopuk has introduced a new website at www.shopuk.co.uk to put end users in direct touch with its resellers for a fast nationwide sales service with local support across a wide variety of AV products. When users place an order or ask for information, the website automatically determines the nearest reseller and puts the customer in direct touch. The site offers secure on-line ordering for top selling brand names, including projectors and plasma screens from Philips Projectors, Mitsubishi Projectors, Toshiba Projectors, ASK Projectors, Eiki Projectors and Optoma Projectors, Daewoo Projectors, JVC Projectors and LG Projectors. It also includes items such as monitors, screens, visualisers, TVs, videos, slide projectors and accessories.

Hitachi Projectors

Distributor Midwich has signed a new vendor agreement with Hitachi Projectors which will take the company into another new sector of the market. Under the terms of the new deal Midwich will be selling Hitachi’s interactive whiteboards. Business development manager Darren Lewitt says Hitachi projectors wanted a distributor that knew the IT market. The deal is significant because it will build on the company’s fast growing projector business. “The projector market is expected to grow at 20% this year. We have already been selling an average of 1,000 projectors a month and that was without being able to bundle them with whiteboards. With the addition of the Hitachi projectors products the potential for growth is enormous.” The whiteboard market accounted for an estimated 57,000 units this year and Hitachi is currently one of the top three players in market.

You can purchase Hitachi Projectors from Shop UK on either their website www.shopuk.co.uk or by telephone 0870 366 5766

School Projectors

Dell Inc has announced a strategy to further grow its share of the school projectors market by cutting prices and creating ‘intelligent classroom’ packages. These will bundle tablet PCs, interactive whiteboards, projectors and cameras with Dell’s computers. It also plans to grow sales of printers into schools and to offer managed technology systems. The company is estimated to already have 44% of the US market for computers and related equipment to schools and colleges.

Shopuk is the cheapest place schools in the UK can purchase projectors see www.shopuk.co.uk or telephone 0870 366 5766.

Sagem Projectors

Sagem has appointed Hannah Cording as sales nanager to strengthen its position in the fast growing projector market. She joins Sagem having worked both in the channel, with distributor Maverick and for AV reseller Primary Presentation, and with manufacturer Panasonic where she was an account manager for whiteboards. Jeff Root, sales and marketing manager B2B says: "We are launching an impressive range of sagem projectors mainly DLP technology and we will benefit immensely from a dedicated and experienced manager who will look after our existing distribution base as well as opening up new sales channels. Hannah will also be involved in selling in the new Axium range of DLP and LCD High Definition TVs

Shop Uk supply the full range of Sagem products including Sagem Projectors on their website www.shopuk.co.uk.

UK Projector Sales

Steljes has signed a new distribution agreement with Dutch company Projecta BV to distribute its range of projector screens in the UK. Projecta manufactures high quality projection screens and presentation furniture and operates in over fifty countries. The new product line will be introduced by Steljes from 1 September and is designed to complement its extensive projector portfolio across the home, business and public sector applications. Daryl Brennan, distribution director for Steljes says: “The projector market has become more commoditised and will continue to be so, especially in the portable/desktop segments. Resellers therefore increasingly need to look at ways of supplementing their margin through bundles and up-selling. Steljes aims to make it easier for them, by providing complementary products from a leading projection screen manufacturer and provide a one-stop presentation / display solution.” Katinka de Vos, international sales and marketing manager at Projecta BV says the company was chosen for its strong reseller base in IT, AV and office equipment. Steljes will supply two types of projection screens from Projecta, the Electrol electric screens, encompass the Elpro, Compact, Cinema and TabScreen product ranges and manual screens, which include Projecta’s ProScreen, SlimScreen and FastFold and PortaLite range. Product literature, fabric samples and an interactive screen selector will be amongst the sales tools.

Shop UK Supplies projectors in the Uk through its website www.shopuk.co.uk and over the phone 0870 366 5766

Sony Projectors

AV distributor MultiVision is diversifying its Sony Projectors product range as part of a drive to supply high end niche sony projector products that will appeal to a wider range of sony projector resellers. The company says the shift in focus follows the recent introduction of more specialist sony projector products, such as IP monitoring equipment, network cameras and controllers, as well as high-end installation and networkable Sony projectors. It adds that the key reasons for introducing these Sony projector products are better revenue for resellers and a greater profile within the industry.

Shop Uk supply the full range of sony projectors on their website www.shopuk.co.uk or by telephone on 0870 366 5766.

Projector Hire

Steljes Hire, the trade audio visual hire company, helped to project an image of a stamp of Stonehenge onto the stones themselves at sunrise as part of the recent launch of a new series of stamps. The company worked with its client Eulogy using a Sanyo XF45 10,000 lumen projector. The result was photographed by renowned landscape photographer Charlie Waites.

Projector Hire is not avaliable from www.shopuk.co.uk but because Projectors are so low cost now you can purchase from www.shopuk.co.uk or by telephone 0870 366 5766

NEC Projectors

NEC has announced an optional extended two year warranty covering its award-winning business, education and residential NEC projector ranges. The guarantee will protect the buyer’s investment offering a return and repair service for each projector for an additional two years, regardless of any initial cover which may have been purchased. The new guarantee is said to offer the channel an additional opportunity for revenue and profit generation and provides customers with the assurance that any purchase is comprehensively supported by NEC’s ISO registered European Technical Centre in Telford.


NEC Projectors can be purchased from www.shopuk.co.uk or by telephone on 0870 366 5766.

Panasonic Projectors

Panasonic was a finalist in four different categories in the Business Equipment Digest Excellence Awards 2005 which took place this month, and won three of them. Its PT-LB20 projector was the winner in the presentation systems section. The second award came from the telecommunications category with the KX-TES824 hybrid telephone system. and the ‘Industry Personality of the Year 2005’ went to Bob Tate, Head of Panasonic Business Systems.

Panasonic Projectors can be purchased from www.shopuk.co.uk or by telephone 0870 366 5766

Digital Projectors

TDS, a supplier of specialist interactive presentation and training equipment, has re-launched as an exclusive distribution operation under the name TDS AV Distribution. The company says the move shows its commitment to the UK trade channel and is part of a wider strategic reorganisation of the £38 million TDS Promethean Group. TDS AV supplies exclusively to the trade, selling its own range of interactive whiteboards, the TDS ACTIVboard, and portable and digital projectors from Sanyo and Sharp and Samsung digital presenters.

Shop Uk supply the full range of Digital Projectors and Interactive Whiteboards.

Visit www.shopuk.co.uk or 0870 366 5766

Projector Lamps

Every educational establishment buying a NEC VT470 or NEC VT676 projector during September will receive a free projector lamp worth up to £280 courtesy of NEC. The projector lamp giveaway will help make top-quality NEC projection even more affordable for schools and universities to run. Simeon Joseph, Product Manager for NEC’s Business Equipment Division, says: “With lessons becoming increasingly interactive, the education market is demanding projectors which incorporate high-quality technology, ease of use and value for money. We are confident our VT range will exceed these expectations and we want to ensure that our dealers feel supported by additional incentives such as the free projector lamps promotion, particularly in the run-up to the new school year.”

Shop Uk offer all NEC promotions while they are still valid.

For all deals at www.shopuk.co.uk visit their website or call 0870 366 5766.