DiGiCo has appointed DWR Distribution PTY as its exclusive distributor for South Africa from April 2016. Founded in 2006, DWR has built a reputation in the South African market for supplying predominantly lighting products and providing a complete service from concept through to installation and commissioning. “I was truly honoured to receive a phone call from Ian Staddon from DiGiCo, who was on the search for a new representative for his product in South Africa,” said Duncan Riley of DWR. “I am really excited about this, and so is the whole company and we cannot wait to get going with this…
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Protec, which until recently has focussed mainly on corporate events having taken a year’s sabbatical from rock ‘n’ roll, made a dramatic U-turn in March 2016 to support three concerts in the UAE, including Nicki Minaj and the Autism Rocks Festival in Dubai, the latter featuring Flo Rida and Tyga. Protec also provided lighting for the very first Korean cultural convention that took place in Abu Dhabi’s du Arena on 25 March featuring performances by K-Pop artists such as boy group BTS, Taeyeon from the group Girls’ Generation, Kyuhyun from Super Junior, Double S 301, hip-hop group Monsta X, girl…
As it prepares to become the first country in the Middle East to host the football World Cup in 2022, Qatar is investing in state-of-the-art infrastructure and technologies its stadiums. This includes the implementation of world class wireless microphone systems from Sennheiser at the Lusail Iconic Stadium, which played a vital role in enabling handball fans across the world enjoy the televised broadcasts of live matches. This stadium will be used for boxing, handball and basketball championships and also for live in concerts in the future. Sennheiser, which also supplied microphones for the football stadiums in Brazil, highlighted the importance of its audio…
Procom Middle East was presented with the Best Dealer Award 2015 from Eurotruss on 9 February 2016 at the annual distributors meeting in the manufacturer’s headquarters in the Netherlands. Martin Kuyper, the CEO of Eurotruss, presented the award to Procom, represented by its CEO Raja Harfouche. The award rewards an outstanding sales performance but also the high level client support presented by Procom, namely support in design. At the meeting, over 50 partners and distributing companies came to get an exclusive insight into the developments of the current market and the growing leading position of Eurotruss globally. This followed several…
Lightship Productions, owned and run by Ni-Lou Breytenbach, is the latest South African lighting production, design and delivery specialist to invest in MA Lighting control with the purchase of an MA onPC command wing, delivered by SA distributors, DWR Distribution CC. Lightship Productions works across all industry sectors including corporate and live events, TV productions and theatre shows, the latter hailing back to Breytenbach’s industry roots. His varied workload includes designing and programming his own shows, providing operating and FOH co-ordination, support services for others and working as a lighting systems engineer. “With business expanding, the time was right to…
More than 300 LED and discharge fixtures from PR Lighting graced the Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex for the inaugural opening of the 22nd 2016 African Handball Cup of Nations Championship, which took place over 10 days at the end of January. They were deployed by the Chinese manufacturer’s Egyptian partner, Hi-Lights, whose inspiring concept was designed by Ahmed Arafa. Hi-Lights itself is the country’s largest service provider (and one of the biggest throughout the Middle East). It was awarded the contract by the Egyptian Handball Federation & Ministry of Youth and Sports, and was asked to provide the lighting, sound, video projection and…
