BARCO Hosts Third Annual Networking Event for USA’s Largest Rental & Staging Firms
Kennesaw, GA – March 7, 2003 – Barco Events recently hosted what has become the annual networking event to the Events and Rental & Staging industries, its annual Rental Partner Meeting. This year, the event was held in Cancun, Mexico at the Camino Real Resort, February 24th – 26th. The three-day event was attended by over 50 key commercial and technical representatives from 30 prominent rental & staging companies from the US. Attendance to the much anticipated event was strictly by invitation only for BARCO’s key US Rental Partners, who were treated to a meticulously constructed agenda which included hands-on workshops with BARCO’s proprietary Events Controller and ViewScape, as well as demonstrations of the brand-new SLite 10 and SLite14 LED displays and workshops on the SLM R10 Performer and RLM G5 Performer projectors. The BARCO team programmed a full show featuring a larger than life display combining ILite 6, ILite 8 and ILite 10 together with Dlite 7 LED displays, the ViewScape and four SLM R8 Performer projectors - all steered by the Barco Events Controller.
“Over the past three years, BARCO’s annual rental partner meeting has gained enormous popularity, to the point where our clients now tell us that it is the networking event to the Rental & Staging industries,” said Steve Scorse, Division Manager, Barco Events. “The fact that 30 of the USA’s top rental firms are our strategic partners confirms our leadership as preferred supplier and as such, we continue to put top priority on building a partnership with our rental partners in which they can count on BARCO as their source of information surrounding emerging trends, as well as their supplier of choice for the latest technologies.”With a strong line-up of revolutionary products such as the Events Controller and ViewScape, as well as the launch of its new SLite displays, the new RLM and expanded SLM projection ranges, BARCO’s annual rental partner meeting once again offered its clients a perfect opportunity to view new technologies before they hit the market. As a result of this exclusive preview, Barco booked several sizable orders, as well as booking its first key orders of the brand-new SLite 10 and SLite 14 and RLM G5 Performer ranges.
Barco Events also recently hosted its successful annual European Rental Partner Meeting in Marbella, Spain January 26th – 29th.
About Barco Events
Barco Events, a part of BarcoProjection, specializes in developing and producing large area visualization solutions such as LCD and DLP™- projectors as well as LED displays for the rental, staging and events markets. Barco Events has supplied visualization equipment to the concert tours of Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Madonna, Bryan Adams, U2, Tim McGraw, in addition to several other bands. Recognized for its dedication to product R & D and strict quality standards, BARCO continues to drive today’s technological advances in the daylight display market with the development of the ILite range.
BARCO Background
Barco, international company with US sales headquarters in Kennesaw, GA, is active in three key areas of imaging technology. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in almost 100 countries. Barco is quoted on Brussels/Euronext, is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company, and is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.
