Stampede Takes Its Industry Leading Dealer Resource Mobile With The Big Book of AV App!

Underscoring its commitment to providing dealers with the most complete range of information resources for their extensive product lines, Stampede Presentation Products Inc., North America’s largest, high value added ProAV distributor, today announced the immediate availability of its new Big Book of AV mobile app. The new free app, available for the iPhone, iPad, and Android, allows users to browse Stampede’s nearly 1,000-page catalog that remains the industry’s number one dealer resource for product information. Dealers can now carry the standard-setting 2012 Big Book of AV catalog, featuring nineteen new product lines and a host of other innovative features, wherever they go.

“With the new app, our dealers can finally have high quality AV information right at their fingertips,” said Kevin Kelly, Stampede President & COO. “Our 2012 Big Book of AV contains 19 new product lines from the last year alone, and this new app allows the nearly 10,000 dealers in our network to access information on more than 7,967 products from more 90 manufacturers, with just one push of a button on their mobile device.”

New lines featured in the 2012 Big Book of AV catalog include: Chorus Call (Unified Communications), Christie (Commercial Displays, Micro Tiles, Projectors), Clear One (Unified Communications), DynaScan (Commercial Flat Panels and Digital Signage Solutions), Horizon Displays (Classroom, Digital Signage, and Touch Screen Solutions), IO Gear (Audio-Video Distribution, Presentation Accessories, and Digital Signage), Navitar, (Non-Lens Digital Signage) Marshall Electronics (Security Cameras, Commercial Flat Panels, Unified Communications, and Microphones), Olens (Projectors and Home Audio), Panasonic (Security Products), Peerless (Non-Mount Digital Signage and Education Products), Phoenix Audio (Commercial Audio and Unified Communications), RADVISION (Unified Communications), Room Pro (Unified Communications, Carts/Racks/Cases, and Classroom Solutions), Samsung (Commercial Flat Panels), Screen Innovations (Projection Screens), TTUFF (Digital Signage Solutions), Ultimate Support (Pro Audio), and Xantech (ATON product line).

The physical version of the 2012 Big Book of AV was introduced to Stampede’s dealers at INFOCOMM 2012, and features information on more than 7,967 products from more 90 manufacturers, making it the single largest resource guide in the entire industry.  The book itself weighs more than four pounds and is just shy of 1,000 pages.  What’s more, dealers will have the opportunity to custom imprint their logo on the cover of the catalog.

The 2012 catalog will once again include enhanced QuickLink® barcodes. These codes allow readers the opportunity to obtain further information about various product by scanning the codes with their smartphone, to be directed to digital information about the products on the page, either via videos about the products or a direct connection to one of Stampede’s call center representatives.

About Stampede

Known for its value-added distribution, Amherst, New York-based Stampede is the leading distributor of presentation equipment including LCD/DLP projectors and flat panel displays. Stampede provides a complete range of brand name presentation equipment to a variety of audio/video, computer and home theater resellers and integrators in the United States, Canada and Latin America. These resellers rely on Stampede for value-added services in distribution, marketing and solution-based sales. Stampede annually produces the “Big Book of AV,” a nearly 1,000-page catalog and companion website (www.BigBookofAV.com) that provide hundreds of sales, installation and spec tips for Stampede’s dealers in addition to product details on more than 5,000 SKUs. For more information on Stampede, log onto www.stampedeglobal.com.