Midwich has signed a distribution deal with Hive, the manufacturer of scalable media servers that suit any size project.
This exclusive agreement allows Midwich and PSCo to offer Hive’s full range of products in the UK and Ireland and will be launched at their ‘Beyond the Pixel’ event on Thursday 20th June at Innovation House, Bracknell. Hive’s sales director, Nigel Sadler, business development manager, Sarah Cox, and co-founder/managing director, Mark Calvert, will be in-person at the event to deliver presentations and demonstrations of their product line to attendees.
The Beehive, Beebox, and Beeblade products create a flexible and scalable media control ecosystem to power complex and creative visuals in a variety of applications including immersive exhibitions, galleries and museums, live shows, theme parks, and high impact advertising.
Hive has been designed from the ground up on a Linux operating system, to provide rock solid reliable high-performance playback, intuitive ease of use, low power consumption meeting very high standards of sustainability throughout the product, company, and deployment process. This is central to the company’s ethos and is supported by their tagline, ‘ingenious by nature’.
Lloyd Platt, business manager at Midwich, said:
“We’re thrilled to welcome Hive’s full product offering to our portfolio. We pride ourselves on the service we provide our partners and for Hive to choose us as their distribution partner in the UK&I is immensely exciting.
“We look forward to working together and talking to our customers about their product offering at our upcoming ‘Beyond the Pixel’ event hosted at Innovation House on Thursday 20th June.”
Mark Calvert, managing director at Hive, added:
“We are very happy to join the Midwich Group for exclusive distribution of our entire product range within the UK and Northern Ireland.
“Midwich sales, marketing and first line support reach enables Hive to remain focused on our core development and growth strategies and equally agile and affordable in the AV Market.
“We are grateful to the UK Midwich team for their eagerness to represent our product and brand.”
Hive was founded by , who have together delivered video systems for global projects including the BBC Earth Experience, Frameless London, Luna Park Theme Park, Bees at World Museum, London 2012 Olympics, Tokyo Olympics, Dubai World Expo, Eric Prydz’s HOLO, Coldplay World Tours, and the National Museum of Qatar.
For more information, please contact Midwich on info@midwich.com | 01379 649200 or PSCo on sales@psco.co.uk |01344 592 211.
Image above from: Hive.
About Midwich Group
Midwich is a specialist AV distributor to the trade market, with operations in the UK and Ireland, EMEA, Asia Pacific and North America. The Group’s long-standing relationships with more than 800 vendors, including blue-chip organisations, support a comprehensive product portfolio across major audio-visual categories such as large format displays, projectors, digital signage, unified communications, security, and professional audio. The Group operates as the sole or largest in-country distributor for several of its vendors in their respective product sets.
The Directors attribute this position to the Group’s technical expertise, extensive product knowledge and strong customer service offering built up over several years. The Group has a large and diverse base of more than 22,000 customers, most of which are professional AV integrators and IT resellers serving sectors such as corporate, education, retail, residential and hospitality. Although the Group does not sell directly to end users, it believes that the majority of its products are used by commercial and educational establishments rather than consumers.
Initially a UK-only distributor, the Group now has experience centres and offices in 22 countries and around 1,800+ employees across its regions, UK and Ireland, EMEA, Asia Pacific and North America. A core component of the Group’s growth strategy is further expansion of its international operations and footprint into strategically targeted jurisdictions.
About PSCo
PSCo, part of the Midwich Group, is the UK’s leading specialist display distributor offering the latest in LED, laser projection and video processing solutions. Its added value services offer customers an end-to-end solution to create highly impactful and fully validated display systems as well as a trade-only rental service to cater for the live events sector.
Based at Innovation House in Bracknell, a purpose built 50,000sqft+ experience, event and training centre, its offices offer customers a place to get hands-on with a wide range of technologies across the Midwich Group portfolio.
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