Mackie Press Contact:
Kyle Ritland
Public Relations Manager
1-800-258-6883, ext. 6352
Mobile: 206-778-3115
Email: kyler@mackie.com
Sydec Press Contact:
Erik Wijnen
Managing Director
Phone: 32-3-7650098
Mobile: 32-476-409989
Email: ew@sydec.be
MACKIE & SYDEC AUDIO ENGINEERING REACH AGREEMENT ON SOUNDSCAPE PRODUCTS
WOODINVILLE, Wash. — August 12, 2003 – Mackie Designs Inc. (OTC BB: MKIE) announced today an agreement with Sydec Audio Engineering NV of Belgium in which Mackie will transfer all remaining Soundscape assets including brand name, intellectual property and the remaining stock of Soundscape products. Mackie ceased development and distribution on the Soundscape platform earlier this year, but has continued to provide technical support and warranty service.
With this agreement, the former employees of Sydec have formed a new company, Sydec Audio Engineering NV, which will assume all Soundscape product development as well as support and distribution responsibilities for all existing Soundscape products, including the Mackie Broadcast Professional Soundscape 32. Beginning immediately, technical support assistance for all Soundscape products will be available from Sydec Audio Engineering at www.sydec.be.
“We are excited to once again move forward with the platform that this team invented and has continued to develop for over 10 years,” stated Erik Wijnen, Managing Director of Sydec Audio Engineering NV. “We are pleased with the refinements made to the platform by the Mackie team and are looking forward to establishing a strong relationship with those customers who purchased the Mackie Soundscape 32.”
“The Sydec team is extremely skilled and we have the utmost confidence in their ability to offer exceptional support and service for those customers who purchased the Mackie Broadcast Professional Soundscape 32,” stated Jamie Engen, President and CEO of Mackie Designs Inc.
About Mackie
Mackie Designs Inc. is known worldwide as a leading manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, affordable professional audio systems. Mackie products can be found in professional and project recording studios, video and broadcast suites, post production facilities, sound reinforcement applications including churches and nightclubs, retail locations and on major musical tours. Mackie Designs' products are marketed by 54 distributors to more than 100 countries around the world.
For more information please contact: Mackie Designs Inc. • 16220 Wood-Red Road N.E. • Woodinville, WA 98072 • Phone: (425) 487-4333 • Fax: (425) 487-4337 •Internet: www.mackie.com.
About Sydec Audio Engineering NV
Sydec Audio Engineering NV is a new privately owned company founded by the former employees of Sydec NV, who have invented, developed and supported the Soundscape product line since 1991. Soundscape is well known in the pro audio industry as a professional, powerful and user-friendly Digital Audio Workstation. It most of all has an impeccable and uncompromised reputation of reliability. Soundscape products can be found in professional and project recording studios, video and broadcast suites, radio and post production facilities.
For more information please contact: Sydec Audio Engineering NV • Industriepark Noord 10 • B-9100 Sint-Niklaas • Belgium • Phone: 32-3-7650098 • Fax: 32-3-7650104 • URL: www.sydec.be
Mackie is a registered trademark of Mackie Designs Inc. in the United States and other all other countries. Soundscape is a trademark of Sydec Audio Engineering NV. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company's business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements due to numerous factors, including those described above and the following: changes in demand for the Company's products, product mix, the timing of customer orders and deliveries, the impact of competitive products and pricing, constraints on supplies of critical components, excess or shortage of production capacity, difficulties encountered in the integration of acquired businesses and other risks discussed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports. In addition, such statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions and growth rates, and general domestic and international economic conditions. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
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