Bose Professional has celebrated the grand opening of a new sales office and experience centre in Dubai, UAE, with partners from the MEA region.

Epson has announced a partnership with Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics company, to use greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduced fuels like biodiesel and green methanol for its inbound ocean transportation to Europe.

The AV community in Spain has announced the formation of #AVforValencia (https://www.avforvalencia.org), an initiative that aims to raise funds to support all those affected by the devastating floods that decimated Valencia on October 29.

Ushio, the parent company to Christie, has announced the appointment of Michael Phipps as president and chief operating officer of Christie Digital Systems and its subsidiaries.

Inavate EMEA editor Paul Milligan sits down with Nick Pidgeon from Visualization and Leo McDowell from Unilumin to discuss why the LED manufacturer has chosen to go down the distribution route, and what that means for its customers. The discussion also touches on why integrators should choose a heritage LED brand in a crowded marketplace, and why choosing partners who can provide fast and accurate service is so vital if problems occur on-site.

QSC has announced the grand opening of its Q-Sys UAE experience centre in Dubai.

Christie’s parent company, Ushio, has appointed Michael Phipps as Christie’s new president and chief operating officer.

PlexusAV has appointed Arthur Brockhoff as regional sales manager EMEA, joining the company with more than 30 years of experience.

Audiologic has appointed Anna Shahin as application support manager, a newly created role at the company.

Dutch police are aiming to use a ‘hologram’ of the computer-generated image of a young woman murdered in 2009 to encourage potential witnesses to come forward.