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Is it possible that Global has uncovered fraud, or at the very least a ‘distortion of revenue’ related to some of the acquisitions they made when they formed Global Outdoor back in 2018?

That anyhow, is the belief of many people who we spoke with in the UK this past week. Sources close to the matter tell us that the flag was raised inside Global when sales revenue on former Outdoor Plus inventory failed to reach the levels that the buyer “assumed had been achieved in 2018”.

Over the past few years many UK media owners have effectively inflated their sales revenue figures with a series of substantial one off payments paid into their own business by selling their site/screen leases and freeholds to the likes of Wildstone and Insite Outdoor. This is something that Outdoor Plus did in 2018, which is of course, the year that Global valued and then bought the business.

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Mass Media have launched their first new site of 2020.

London City Approach is a Mega 6 on the A13 Alfreds Way facing traffic heading toward London and will be seen by 65,000 vehicles per day in the London bound direction.

This is the first of Mass Media’s new sites for 2020, another will be launching next month on the A33 in Reading and another the month after that on the Ealing Road, Wembley.

The Ministry of New Media have announced a new full day event for 2020.

The Global LED Summit will take place in London on Wednesday May 13, 2020, during London Digital Signage Week (May 11-15, 2020) and will be held at Samsung KX.

At The Global LED Summit, expert speakers will be looking at the LED Video Market Evolution in Western Europe, what the opportunities are for ultra-fine pitch, miniLED and MicroLED and the purpose of shape-changing displays.

We will also explore how award winning LED installs are put together, discuss the LED opportunities within Corporate lobbies and atriums and take a detailed look at retail and physical design.

There are also plans to take this event to New York during New York Digital Signage Week.

Agenda and speakers will be announced shortly.

Joe English has joined Reflect as EVP, Sales. He has been out of our industry for a few years but was at RMG for nine years sometime ago. We are told by people who know him well that this is a good hire.

Talon Outdoor has announced the launch of its German division with Winfried Karst appointed as Managing Director.

Winfried Karst is tasked with driving business in Germany, mainland Europe, and international spend from across Talon’s Plexus network, ie. expanding Talon’s reach in mainland Europe.

He’s spent over 12 years at Kinetic as co-founder and COO of Germany and Austria, and CEO of Switzerland. This was followed by short lived senior management positions at Amscreen Europe and Goldbach.

Most recently, he has been CEO of SK2 Solutions a consulting and media business focusing on the area of healthcare clients and digital Out of Home.

Alister Smith has joined Midwich as AMX’s Business Development Manager UK.

He will be based at Midwich Group’s newly opened Innovation House showroom in Bracknell, Alister brings 20 years’ experience in the industry across distribution, manufacturing, reseller and integrator businesses within the Corporate, Residential and Commercial markets. Alister you may remember was was Vice Chairman of CEDIA EMEA from 2014-16.

Midwich are the only distribution partner in the UK & Ireland to offer the full range of AMX products and Alister will take a central role in growing the brand. His experience allows Midwich to further enhance their reach within the channel partner community, as well as increasing engagement with end users.

To discuss the wealth of opportunities across the AMX product range, feel free to contact Alister on alister.smith@midwich.com.

Simon Hayes has joined NEC Display Solutions where he will drive NEC’s Meeting Room and Collaboration Solutions business, primarily across its global enterprise customers.

As a member of the UK Solutions Team and integral to the NEC One Global Programme, Simon will be pivotal in steering NEC’s leading position in this important growing market.

He brings a wealth of knowledge with him having worked exclusively within the collaboration space, he joins NEC having previously worked for SMART Technologies.

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NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc. has announced the appointment of Rob Zeller as Vice President of Sales, Direct View LED Solutions.

He brings over 25 years of audio/visual tech experience to NEC Display, including over 20 years in large LED Display system design and sales, and will oversee the sales of NEC Display’s growing direct view LED portfolio.

Betsy Larson, SVP Sales, NEC Display Solutions of America told us “Rob has first-hand experience with the evolving LED market, and we’re excited to see him grow our direct view LED business with the support of our global brand. As someone with a long history of closing numerous large-scale projects with complex installations, Rob is the ideal leader for our LED sales team.”

One of his goals will be to bolster NEC Display’s presence in new and growing markets, including entertainment, which was a focus in his previous roles with Panasonic and Daktronics. Beyond entertainment, Rob will help enable global retailers to reinvent the brick-and-mortar experience with NEC’s vibrant LED solution. The key to success, Zeller said, is to show customers the long-term value of NEC’s products compared to the competition.

Doug Fundator has joined SNA Displays as director of sales for the Western U.S.

He brings more than 25 years of media and digital experience to the growing sales staff at SNA Displays, most recently with Architectural Design and Sign (AD/S) and before that NanoLumens

Rick Bortles said “Doug has an extensive working knowledge in digital signage, LED and LCD, but also in upstream componentry such as content management system and video processing. Having a technical understanding of the complete system really gives Doug a unique advantage when it comes to establishing healthy relationships in our industry. We received so much interest in this position, but Doug really is a perfect fit for us and the kind of asset we need to drive interior and exterior LED display business in this region”.

Doug Fundator is a resident of Las Vegas and he will be working for Rick Bortles, SNA Displays’ vice president of global sales.