Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 20 May 2014: At a special corporate launch held at the Hotel Intercontinental, Dubai Festival City, today, FVC, Barco's authorised value added distributor (VAD) in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), announced the expansion of its distribution agreement to include its range of state-of-the art business projectors for presentations, meetings and trainings in the workplace. The special features of this range includes excellent performance, high brightness and ultimate reliability that can fit well in the business landscape.

Last year, FVC signed a distribution agreement with Barco for its ClickShare wireless presentation and collaboration system. "We are very excited to expand our visual collaboration solutions with this additional range products from Barco which offer an innovative visual technology for business needs in this region," said K.S. Parag, Managing Director at FVC.

FVC offers unparalleled portfolio of distribution services and unwavering commitment to its customers. "We want to leverage the latest technologies and innovations for our customers. The newest products of Barco will give them [customers] a wide array of options to choose from," added Parag.

Barco's Corporate AV portfolio includes an extensive range of single-chip and three-chip DLP business projectors - with brightness levels from 5,000 up to 10,000 lumens, and a broad range of resolutions from XGA to WQXGA. The projectors are designed specifically to foster smarter collaboration in the workplace.

"Combined with ClickShare--which is also available through FVC--these projectors create an unmatched solution that significantly enhances the user experience," commented Eric Brouwers, regional director for the Middle East and Africa at Barco. "In short, by expanding our existing partnership with FVC, we are able to offer our MENA customers ultimate value."

For more details about Barco's new range of projectors, visit: www.barco.com/en/Products-Solutions/Projectors/Business-projectors.      

About FVC
FVC is one of the most recognised Value Added Distributors (VAD) across the Middle East and Africa, having built a successful business in providing cutting edge technologies in three clear areas of enterprise computing: Unified Communications, Information Security and Advanced Networking.

With dedicated offices across the region, FVC works through its growing network of channel partners in over 45 countries. Uniquely in the region, its combination of full support for its channel partners and market-leading solutions from emerging technologies provides both FVC's partners and their customers with the full confidence to invest in integrated next-generation IT and networking solutions.

About Barco
Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with 4,000 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of 1.158 billion euro in 2013.

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