(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Wacom Europe is keen to increase its presence in the Middle East on the huge potential for high growth, according to its top official.
The company, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, is a global market leader in pen tablets, interactive pen displays, digital pens and signature solutions. Wacom Europe on Wednesday announced its plan to participate in forthcoming Gitex Technology Week, which starts from October 20, 2013.
"Looking at the expected growth rate in the Middle East's entertainment and media market and being aware of the fact that the market size ranks number five in the EMEA region already, we considered this region to even increase our market presence and the awareness for our products," Wacom's general sales manager for Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa, Alexander Maliyenko, said.
"We are in the Middle East for the last 10 years and pleased to announce expansion in the region. We consider Dubai, GCC and the Middle East as a key factor for our growth," Maliyenko told reporters at a news conference in Dubai on Wednesday. "We are expanding tremendously and expect double sales from the current level of $688million in 2013 to $1.2billion by 2016." This year, EMEA growth in sales is expected to be 25 per cent, he added.
At Gitex, Wacom will present its full and nearly completely new range of products. Already at the centre of interest are the newly launched Cintiq Companion products, both the Windows 8 and the Android version closing the gap between the Cintiq interactive pen displays and a fully-fledged PC and media tablet respectively. Another member of the new mobile family is the equally well responded Intuos Creative Stylus, being the first stylus to offer the Wacom drawing experience with a pressure sensitive pen to the iPad.
Staying on top of evolving trends in the creative community and responding to frequent requests from professional customers, Wacom extends the creative experience from the desktop to a mobile environment with the new Cintiq Companion line of creative tablets. The Cintiq Companion line, available in two models, enables creative professionals to work wherever they want.
The Cintiq Companion runs Windows 8 and full versions of creative software and offers everything a customer would expect from Wacom's Cintiq products. The Cintiq Companion Hybrid, on the other hand, is a traditional Cintiq when plugged into a Mac or PC, but when used as a mobile device, it works as a stand-alone Android tablet with enough power to do light sketching and start creative processes with suitable apps.
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