JVC Professional Products Company Promotes Jim Turner to National Marketing Manager

Business Wire, Dec 29, 1998

WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 28, 1998--JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY has promoted James Turner to National Marketing Manager, announced Mr. Mannen, president of the company.

Turner will be responsible for planning and executing the company's strategic marketing plans for JVC's professional line of VCR's, cameras, monitors, projectors and editing systems throughout the United States.

With Mr. Turner's promotion, Bill Birdsall, previously a District Sales Manager, will assume the position of East Coast regional manager, where he will coordinate the sales and marketing efforts of the district sales representatives between Maine and Florida, including Puerto Rico.

"Jim's expertise in sales and marketing makes this promotion a logical progression. His great knowledge of the industry will help ensure JVC's growth through product lines via strategic positioning and marketing," Mannen explained. "He will be particularly valuable in maintaining the successful relationships JVC has developed with broadcasters as they have adopted our DIGITAL-S technology." JVC's DIGITAL-S, a 4:2:2 component digital tape format, has been widely received by the broadcast video market.

Before joining the JVC team in 1982, Mr. Turner worked as a sales manager for Sound Systems, Inc. and attended Brandywine College in Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. Turner currently resides in Furlong, PA with his wife and children.

JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY, headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, distributes a complete line of broadcast and professional video equipment including cameras, recorders, monitors, projectors, editing systems, and CCTV products. For more information, please contact David Walton at 800-JVC-5825, or visit the company's website at www.jvc.com.