Territories

India is among the world’s fastest growing economies and is, in fact, the third largest pro AV market, but a late-summer wave of Covid-19 created a downward revision in the country’s overall finances. The IMF now projects a 10.3 per cent 2020 GDP decline, down significantly from the 4.5 per…

As elsewhere in Europe, the Spanish market has experienced a technological development which probably would have taken almost five years to happen under different circumstances. Now, everyone is familiar with communication platforms, such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and has been working from home, something that the culturally gregarious Spanish…

As with every other industry in every country, the pandemic has created an unprecedented situation for the pro-AV market in France. Profound consequences - organisational, financial, economic – have compounded to “create a complicated and tense market, with many projects delayed or cancelled and, for smaller integrators, financial difficulties,” says…

Canada is about a tenth the market size of the US but its geographic spread and dispersed population centres mean the country has always been quick to adopt new communication technologies. “We are known as a pioneer and an early adopter,” says Mustafa Zaidi, executive director, Canada at Crestron. “When…

Given the territory’s far flung urban centres - not to mention its isolation from the rest of the world - remote working was a way of life for many businesses and education facilities down under pre-Covid. Post-pandemic and the need for AV communications has never been more relevant. “People were…

It is tricky in these abnormal times to give a clear diagnosis of any market but if we miraculously subtract Covid-19 from the body politic then the AV business in DACH is definitively healthy. A snapshot of industry players taken before the epidemic shuttered global trade suggests that. Germany especially,…

The AV industry in Africa is a diverse and often over-simplified one. It is very easy to put the whole continent together as one market, but the truth is that each different country presents its own unique challenges and opportunities. This being said, there are some general factors that currently…

The UK industry may be pretty tightly-knit – everyone knows everyone – but it’s definitely cosmopolitan in its outlook. That won’t change, deal-or-no-deal trade deal this time next year, but the ramifications of the 2016 EU Referendum underscore are still not settled. Leaving Brexit aside for a moment, let’s place…

Japan is the focus of attention in the broadcast world just now with the Rugby World Cup an appetiser to next summer’s Olympic broadcast feast, but AV is a no less notable affair. The Toyota Stadium in Toyota City, for example, was given a major upgrade of its sound system…

When people think of business in the Middle East, they often focus on the mega-projects that tend to dominate the skyline in cities such as Dubai, Riyadh or Doha. While these make the headlines, there is much more to AV business in the region. The current situation facing business there…