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Almo provides a donation during the Splash for Cash event.
Almo's Gene Chaiken (leſt ) and his son
Warren Chaiken (right).
children work for us.
" We have a lot of long-term stability in
our company. As a matter of fact, my assistant
has been with us for 49 years, " he says.
" We do believe in long-term relationship
with our people, our vendors, and with our
customers. "
Almo Professional A/V
Almo Professional A/V is a division of Almo
Corporation that began in 2009 and went
on to become the largest Almo business
segment. This is the piece of the business
the majority of our readers will be most
familiar with, as the division has become a
distribution partner to a signifi cant portion
of the AV integration industry.
MARCH 2017
Launch of
Hospitality
Division
JULY 2017
Introduction
of Almo
Global
Offi ces
Sam Taylor, now EVP/COO of Almo,
started the Almo Pro A/V division. " It
was after a company that I had been
president of had gone under during the
recession, " he says. " When
we closed down that company
I was looking for a company
that was like it. We had a family
culture there. "
" In 2008, Sam came to us
with 22 people, no inventory,
no customers, and no vendors, "
says Gene Chaiken. " We hired
Sam on that basis and it proved to be a very
good decision. "
Taylor was shopping his business plan
to a number of companies, but sought a
JULY 2018
Acquisition of
Insteo Digital
Signage Content
Company
JAN. 2019
FINANCIAL: On
pace to break
$500M in sales
fi rm that would provide the same stability
and emphasis on the employees that he
appreciated about his previous fi rm. He
found that in Almo.
" I believed in the people
that I was going to be bringing
along with me, " says Taylor. " I
knew it was the right place to go
because they were going to hire
the most amount of my people
and we were able to restart with
great people. "
" I was one of those people
that came over with Sam to start the division, "
says Melody Craigmyle, Vice President
of Marketing and Communications at
Almo. " It's been an incredible experience
E4 Evolution
(E4v), the
virtual version
of Almo's E4
Experience
is born
2020
PANDEMIC
APRIL 2017
Hosted 25th
E4 Event
DEC. 2017
FINANCIAL:
Broke $400M in
sales
JAN. 2019
Launches the
E4 Experience,
a rebranded,
enhanced
version of the
E4 AV Tour
commercialintegrator.com
MARCH 2019
Expands
Business
Development
Manager team
to 16
2020
2020
PANDEMIC
Forms Financial
Relief Alliance to
give partners
30 days of
extended credit
PANDEMIC
Becomes
exclusive
distributor for
ARHT Media
holographic
telepresence
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2020 PANDEMIC
Produces WFH
bundles and off ers
trio of screening,
messaging &
sanitizing products

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