Digislide Signs Distributor to Tackle North America

Digislide Holdings (ASX:DGI) has announced that it has appointed Digital Entertainment Insights, as the key distributor for Digislide’s projection products within North America.

Digital Entertainment Insights, a company specialising in optimising the growth of digital entertainment technology companies targeting the US and Canada will launch Digislide’s products within the region in early in 2010. The company will also facilitate demonstrations of the Digislide range at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), in Las Vegas in January 2010.

Digital Entertainment Insights will operate under the direction of Digislide’s wholly owned subsidiary, Digislide Americas LLC.

According to Luceille Outhred, CEO of Digislide the company is delighted to announce the partnership with Digital Entertainment Insights.

“North America is a highly significant market for us and this agreement brings the best local expertise, sales channels and insights to launch Digislide into the region. While Digislide has a presence in the US via its subsidiary Digislide Americas LLC, the engagement of a specialist distributor provides a terrific boost to the company’s global expansion goals.

According to Bill Gardner, CEO of Digital Entertainment Insights, Digislide has an exceptionally exciting product range that taps into the projection market for gamers, trades and professionals as well as any consumer with a phone with an embedded camera.

“This partnership really highlights both our strengths. While Digislide produces high quality, innovative projection technologies, we have very strong sales and marketing experience within the region. We are looking forward to bringing the products to the attention of major retailers.”

About Digislide:

Digislide is an Australian based company that develops globally relevant innovative miniaturised projection technologies with broad applications.

The tactical focus is on targeting products/applications that can be embedded into a range of mobile and/or hand held communication devices, such as mobile phones, PDA’s and notebook computers.  The technologies have wide patent protection and have already received international acclaim; winning several awards in important international technology arenas.

About CES

With more than four decades of success, the International Consumer Electronics Show reaches across global markets, connects the industry and enables CE innovations to grow and thrive. CES is held in January, annually in Las Vegas, USA, and is considered by the industry to be the major Consumer Electronics Expo of the year. It is the major forum for showcasing new products that retailers will pick up, and then ramp up for the following Christmas season.

About Digital Entertainment Insights

Digital Entertainment Insights is a well established California based consultancy group, with associates in North and Central America, which assists companies entering rapidly growing and highly volatile markets.  Their Business Sectors include:-

         Console and PC Video Game Entertainment

         Mobile and portable device deployment

         In game, on-line and downloadable content

         Retail and Internet product delivery

         General management, sales, marketing and asset deployment

         Management of regulatory issues

Digital Entertainment Insights will receive payment by way of Commissions based on performance.