Revere appointed as Kannad Marine distributor

UK/AMERICAS: McMurdo Ltd, has appointed Revere Supply Co Inc. as the exclusive distributor of McMurdo Ltd’s range of Kannad Marine emergency distress beacons and safety equipment in North and South America, including Canada.

Revere Supply, an award winning company, and one of North America’s leading survival equipment supply companies, will be promoting the Kannad Marine brand throughout the leisure boating and commercial maritime market places in the Americas. Revere will actively distribute the full range of Kannad Marine products which include a number of new ones which will be launched at the 2010 Miami Boat Show.

“We are very pleased to have appointed Revere to distribute our Kannad Marine brand in the Americas,” comments McMurdo Ltd’s CEO Jeremy Harrison. “As a distributor Revere has a proven track record in survival equipment sales and service, along with a dynamic regional network of retail outlets and support expertise”.

Revere’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Jim Cermak, comments “We are very pleased to be given the opportunity to launch such an exciting new product range in the North and South American marketplace.” He adds “Revere has extensive expertise in the survival equipment market, both marine and land-based, and we are looking forward to significantly expanding the Kannad Marine product offer in the Americas”.

About:

McMurdo Ltd is a world leading producer of Emergency Positioning Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs), Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs), Search and Rescue Transponders (SARTs), and VHF Radios for the maritime and leisure markets, including shipping, yachting, and outdoor adventure pursuits. The high quality product range is manufactured in the UK utilising the very latest technology available, and in partnership with the world’s safety regulatory organisations.

Orolia is a high-technology group specialized in precise Positioning, Navigation and Timing. Orolia provides high-precision electronics equipments that generate, distribute, measure and process the High-precision Time & Frequency signals that Critical Operations use to detect, trace, control, analyze or synchronize time and location-critical events. High-precision timing, positioning and synchronization solutions are vital for critical applications in growing markets such as Defense, Public Safety, and Telecom & Broadcasting in land, maritime, air or space environments. Since 2006, the Orolia group has been able to establish itself as one of the leaders in PNT solutions at a global level through five companies: Spectracom, SpectraTime, T4Science, McMurdo and Kannad. Orolia’s headquarters are located in Les Ulis, (France). The company also has main offices in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Stockholm (Sweden), Rochester (New York), Basingstoke (UK), Portsmouth (UK) and Guidel (France).