Green Hippo names new distributor for Turkey
Published: MEA
TURKEY: Following a successful 2011, Green Hippo has decided to appoint Phantom Engineering as its new distributor for Turkey. Phantom Engineering has so far purchased nine Hippotizer HDs for various projects, plus a further two demonstration HDs for its role as Green Hippo distributor.
Phantom Engineering first contacted Green Hippo at the end of 2010 with a view to buying six HDs for the 25th Winter Universiade in Erzurum. Since then the company has used the Hippotizers for a number of projects including: The World Children’s Games Opening Ceremony with seven Hippotizer HDs using a total of 13 outputs for 12 Christie HD18K and a curved LED display running content of 5Kx3K; Projection-mapping on Ciragan Palace using eight Hippotizer HDs controlled by a GrandMA2 full size, outputting to 16 Christie HD18K using the UberPan+DMX2 components to project on a 122mX18m canvas (8800x1264 Pixels); The Men’s World Boxing Championship Opening Ceremony using three Hippotizer HDs; As well as the recent TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championship Istanbul Opening Ceremony, where it used six HDs.
‘We will do our best with the sales and marketing of this product,’ commented Sedat Gündüz, technical manager at Phantom. ‘At the moment everybody is talking about the good work we do with our Hippotizers.’
‘We are confident that Phantom Engineering will be doing a great job as our distributor,’ added Green Hippo’s Samantha Bailey. ‘Having watched their work over the past eight to nine months, it has become very clear that Phantom are extremely good at what they do and that they have a passion for our products. They have created some stunning events and with this in mind we felt very strongly about them representing Green Hippo in Turkey.’