Minimal Posts This Week. Here’s Why … June 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes Posts will be very limited this week, and no podcast. Our daughter is moving into her first house today, and that means a day of lugging boxes and manipulating things through doorways. Tomorrow I put stuff together (I have a distance-learned Masters degree in putting decoding instructions and assembling Ikea stuff). Wednesday is Canada Day …
Rich Ventura Joins Sony To Run B2B Visuals Business; Leaving NEC After Nearly 20 Years June 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes Rich Ventura has for a very long time been front and center in NEC’s commercial display and digital signage business, so it’s a pretty big news that he has left that company after almost 20 years to sign on as Vice President of B2B for Sony’s Imaging Products and Solutions Professional Division. That basically means …
Stu Armstrong Moves Over To JohnRyan As CRO June 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes After more than 16 years running sales and being the “face” of ComQi, in its various iterations, Stu Armstrong has taken on the new task of Chief Revenue Officer for JohnRyan. The new role is more of an assignment than career move, as both ComQi and JohnRyan are owned by the Taiwanese display manufacturing giant …
Full Video Of ACE Discussion On Privacy, New Retail Norms, Now Up Via DSF. Teaser Here… May 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes A teaser video is up for the great discussion recorded online last week by the new umbrella organization ACE (Advocates of Connected Experiences). It involved the heads or key members of several different associations that all touch on and deal with similar issues and challenges around experience and privacy. This is a small sample of …
I’m Fine, We’re Fine April 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes I have had a bunch of emails overnight and this morning from industry friends who know I now live in Nova Scotia, but don’t know much else about the province. They were asking because a man killed 16 people, including an RCMP officer (and mom) on the weekend, in a rampage that stretched across several …
Planar Donates 1,000s Of Masks To Local Portland Hospitals April 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes The display company Planar has donated 1,000s of personal protective equipment (PPE) masks to hospitals around Portland, Oregon. The company’s main offices and facility are out in the west suburbs. I’ve no idea if Planar got them locally, or had them on hand because they do electronics manufacturing and assembly in Beaverton, or if the …
Brown Innovations Shifts 80% Of Production To Making Face Shields April 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes Boston-based Brown Innovations, known in pro AV and digital signage circles for directional sound, is busily knocking out face shields for the heroic souls walking into health care environments every day. Says the company: Brown Innovations is shifting 80% of production to make high quality, lightweight face shields due to the shortage of protective personal …
Legrand AV Converts Indiana Production Line To Make 1,000 Masks Daily April 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Legrand AV’s manufacturing facility in Warsau, Indiana, in normal times, makes projection screens used in schools and event venues for video presentations. It’s one of two places in the company that has the capability to do sewing. A production line has been converted to make face masks for several local health systems who are dealing …
Mark Lawson Of Cineplex Passes Away April 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes Wanted to let my Canadian digital signage and digital OOH friends know that we lost a good one yesterday, to cancer. Mark Lawson was a longtime business development guy, with the OOH media company Pattison and then with Cineplex. I’ve known him for probably 15 years, and we had some legendary, next-day fuzzy outings while …
Federal Heath Converts Manufacturing Capacity To Make Protective Shields April 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of a company within the signage ecosystem pivoting to help out through this pandemic: The Texas-based printing firm Federal Heath, which has a digital signage business unit, has converted some manufacturing capacity to build protective equipment for the medical industry. “We understand the sacrifices and heroic efforts our doctors, nurses, medical staff …
