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Greenham Video has been bought out by its management. Formerly owned by Taylor Woodrow through Greenham Trading, the video and presentations system reseller will continue to trade as Greenham Video, although the new company is established as GV Multi-Media Ltd. The purchase was led by Lilian Cutting and Brian Abrahams,…

Marcom Presentations has launched a dedicated production division, Sprout. Set up to focus on creative aspects of event delivery, the division will work alongside Marcom Presentation's staging, rental and facilities businesses. 'Our recent experience has indicated that more clients are looking for enhanced creative responses from a company that understands…

Educational establishments in Wales are to be connected to a 3m videoconferencing network. The Welsh Video Network (WVN) will distribute and support videoconferencing studios and other video facilities to all higher and further education institutions throughout Wales. It is the first project of its kind to embrace both HE and…

Founder and former chairman Scott Miller is back in charge at Panja.Miller, who took AMX onto NASDAQ before leaving in 1999, had rejoined as president and CEO. The move follows AMX's re-launch as Panja, a change will culminated in the re-naming of its UK subsidiary, Axcess, last month.Operational managers are…

Heuvelman now has 15 staging and rental offices around Europe, including presences in Belgian and German cities as well as its native Netherlands. 'Our goal is to sell our network, because we have a number of international clients who have asked us to service more than one of their national…

The first network of plasma display screens to bring news, traffic and travel information, sport and promotional advertising to drivers on Britain's motorways is being launched by Granada Compass, using 50in NEC screens, at some 30 service areas across the country. They will eventually be seen by up to 106m…

Brighton's Grand HotelPut October 18th in your diary. This year's AV Trade Convention and AV Business & Technology Awards ceremony is moving to a five star location - the Grand in Brighton. Delegate and awards dinner guest preferences from last year's highly-successful event told us that (a) the one day,…

Avesco's Graham Andrews (standing) and David NicholsonThe Gearhouse Midlands division, which includes the operations in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and the NEC, has been bought by Avesco for 4m in cash. Avesco already owns the Creative Technology staging operations in the UK as well as the Screenco LED screen rental business…

The Gaia gallerThe galleries in the Gaia museum in Athens have been designed by Furneaux Stewart, which worked on the project in conjunction with London's Natural History Museum.The visitor experience is divided into three areas looking at the fundamental processes of the natural world; at human impact on the planet;…

Anders+Kern owner Derek Kuziw has sold a 51% stake to Triumph-Adler, but will continue to run the business for the next five year. Triumph-Adler's Experts@Output Group, which will be the A+K holding company, moved into the presentations area in 1998 with the acquisition of the Anders+Kern Presentation Systems businesses in…