HARMAN’s Martin Professional has named Barcelona-based Earpro as a distributor of Martin products in Spain. As a valued member of HARMAN’s distributor network since 1988, Earpo will expand the sales and distribution of Martin Professional lighting solutions in the Spanish market. Commenting on the appointment, Miguel Mezquita, Managing Director, Earpro, stated, “The new cooperation between Martin Professional and Earpro further reinforces the close relationship and commitment that Earpro has had with Harman for more than 25 years. This agreement will undoubtedly benefit the interests of customers and users throughout the Spanish market. With this new setup, they will have access to the most comprehensive offering of AV solutions across the professional sector.”

“Within the past three years, our people have done an amazing job reaffirming Martin Professional’s position as the market leading manufacturer for the rental and touring industry in Spain,” explained Steen Matthiesen, Vice President of EMEA Sales, Martin Professional. “Now, as we get the opportunity to utilize Earpro’s extensive dealer network, we have high expectations of achieving the same position within the installation and club markets in Spain.”

(Photo Caption: From the left: Eduard Baró, Sales Manager, Martin Professional Iberia, Miguel Mezquita, Managing Director, Earpro, Fernando Moya, Key Account Manager, Martin Professional Iberia and Pere Castro, Business Corporate Manager, Earpro)

As a world leader in the creation of dynamic lighting solutions for the entertainment, architectural, and commercial sectors, Martin lighting and video systems are renowned the world over. Martin also offers a range of advanced lighting controllers and media servers, as well as a complete line of smoke machines as a complement to intelligent lighting. Martin operates the industry’s most complete and capable distributor network with local partners in nearly 100 countries. Founded in 1987 and based in Aarhus, Denmark, Martin is the lighting division of global infotainment and audio company HARMAN International Industries. For more information please visit: http://www.martin.com.

HARMAN designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of infotainment and audio solutions for the automotive, consumer, and professional markets. It is a recognized world leader across its customer segments with premium brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, and Mark Levinson® and leading-edge connectivity, safety and audio technologies. The Company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of 14,800 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $4.7 billion for the last twelve months ended December 31, 2013.