RT-NEC Display Solutions Hosts Comprehensive Digital Signage Summit
Underscoring New Solutions-Selling Program
CHICAGO--(Business Wire)--May 8, 2006--
Accenture, Miller Zell, NEC Financial Services and Platt Retail
Institute Headline Digital Media Market Leaders for May 11-12 Event
NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading stand-alone provider of
flat-panel desktop and large-screen displays, today announced its 2006
Solutions Summit will take place May 11-12 at its Itasca, Ill.,
headquarters. At this comprehensive digital signage symposium, NEC Display
Solutions will bring together the "who's who" of the digital media and
display solutions markets as well as Fortune 1000 companies.
The theme of this year's summit is entitled, "Where there's a
message...there's a solution." The event gives retailers, consumer products
companies, service industries and others the opportunity to talk about
vertical solutions with NEC Display and its more than 25 partners exhibiting
their products and services at the summit.
"The process of selling products alone to bundling entire digital signage
solutions has been two years in the making," said Doug Albregts, vice
president of sales and marketing at NEC Display Solutions. "NEC Display has
built a dedicated solutions-selling team, a robust product portfolio and a
vendor partner program to pursue opportunities that a single vendor could
not manage individually. This event will demonstrate the significance of our
solutions-selling strategy, bringing together content management, media
engine, display-mounting experts and others to give companies a one-stop
shop for their digital signage needs."
The summit will include sessions focused on specific issues confronting
digital signage.
-- Accenture will present research on how the increasingly
complex and dynamic environment is impacting consumer needs
and expectations. The firm will explore how retailers and CPG
companies can leverage innovation and technology to
effectively improve the consumer experience at every moment of
value.
-- Miller Zell will discuss the integration of new in-store media
with overall store design and promotion.
-- The Real Canadian Superstore will present on its experiences
using digital signage to educate customers on different
products, and how it strategically posts messages depending on
the location of people in its stores.
-- NEC Financial Services will discuss creative leasing and
financing for channel partners and end-users.
-- The Platt Retail Institute will discuss leveraging the impact
of retail digital signage advertising through behavioral
merchandizing.
"Digital Communications Networks are an increasingly important component
of any in-store marketing strategy," said Steven Keith Platt, Director and
Research Fellow at the Platt Retail Institute, a leading retail research and
analyst firm. "We welcome the opportunity to share our insights on the
impact of retail digital signage advertising through behavioral
merchandizing at NEC Display's summit."
The NEC Display Solutions partners slated to attend the summit include:
3M Digital Signage, AdFlow Networks, Alive Promo, Avocent, Broadcast
International, BTV+, Chief Manufacturing, Digital Factory, Display Devices,
ECI, Endeleo, Epicure Digital, Ergotron, Jelco, Matrox, NEC Unified,
NewSight, NextWindow, NowMicro, Omnivex, Peerless, Premier Mounts,
Richardson, Rise Softools, Scala, Telentice, TrippLite and Ttuff
Technologies. These partners and others will be exhibiting their products
during a vendor fair at the Wyndam Hotel adjacent to NEC Display
headquarters.
About NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc.
Headquartered in Itasca, Ill., NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc., is
a leading provider of innovative LCD displays and integrated display
solutions. NEC Display Solutions develops leading-edge visual technology and
customer-focused solutions for the consumer, enterprise, professional,
medical and digital signage markets. NEC Display Solutions ranked as the
number one best-selling large-screen LCD monitor provider worldwide for all
of CY2005, according to DisplaySearch's FPD Conference. For more
information, please call 1-866-NEC-MORE, or visit www.necdisplay.com.
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