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STENHEIM, Centre du Parc, Rue Marconi 19, 1920 Martigny, Switzerland [email protected], www.stenheim.com Press Release New impetus for the Swiss loudspeaker maker Stenheim HIGH END trade show, Munich, 9th May 2013 – Founded in 2010, Stenheim immediately found its place amongst the leaders of the Swiss hifi industry. This came as no surprise as the company’s creators, a team of five young engineers, had worked together for several years at one of the world’s most renowned loudspeaker makers, the famous Goldmund company, before setting out on their own. Wishing to strengthen the commercial capabilities at the head of their company, they went looking for someone who could take it over and give their promising startup a new impetus. The five founders, JeanLoup Afresne, Antoine Petroff, Maxime Perrin, Sebastien Benz and David Jilli, would like to take the opportunity provided by the High End trade show in Munich to announce the changes which have just taken place. From now on it is JeanPascal Panchard who will take over the running of the company, though they will continue to provide their expertise to it. JeanPascal Panchard is also a fully qualified HES electronic engineer and a holder of an Executive MBA, but he has in addition a solid experience in both marketing and business development. He has worked in the electronics industry for many years and developed all sorts of activities in the area of highend audio. He has notably founded and run a business in this industry for 10 years, looked after a club for hifi enthusiasts for 15 years and worked for 5 years for the prestigious brand NAGRA, including one year as director of the High End department. JeanPascal will be assisted by Lucas Perrin, a young EPFL electronic engineer who was experience as a sound engineer and who has already worked with Stenheim in the past. Seamless development The founding spirit, which gave birth to Stenheim will be totally preserved and even strengthened. The idea is to keep the original and extremely rigorous approach to developing products. Stenheim loudspeakers are in fact made out of solid aluminium and the care that goes into their fine tuning is worthy of a Swiss watchmaker, such is the remarkable precision achieved in audio reproduction. One of their chief characteristics is the great stability, which is provided by the case, as aluminium is mechanically highly stable, and their total respect for the phase. Put together, these two qualities allow them to produce a highly realistic threedimensional soundstage. The brand has also become a specialist in custom finishes. According to the buyer’s wishes, it is quite capable of supplying models polished to a mirror finish, lacquered like a piano in any colour you like, or even covered in precious wood or ostrich leather… Stenheim will continue to produce the highly successful Alumine range and the bass unit, which can be used with these compact models. An entirely new product line, called Reference, is already being developed and will be presented in 2014. _____________________________________ To visit Steinheim at the HIGH END 2013 show in Munich: Hotel "Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski" Room Hofgarten II, www.kempinski.com. Contact: JeanPascal Panchard, tel. +41 79 220 02 22, [email protected]

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STENHEIM, Centre du Parc, Rue Marconi 19, 1920 Martigny, Switzerland

[email protected], www.stenheim.com

Press Release New impetus for the Swiss loudspeaker maker Stenheim

HIGH END trade show, Munich, 9th May 2013 – Founded in 2010, Stenheim immediately found its place amongst the leaders of the Swiss hi-‐fi industry. This came as no surprise as the company’s creators, a team of five young engineers, had worked together for several years at one of the world’s most renowned loudspeaker makers, the famous Goldmund company, before setting out on their own. Wishing to strengthen the commercial capabilities at the head of their company, they went looking for someone who could take it over and give their promising start-‐up a new impetus. The five founders, Jean-‐Loup Afresne, Antoine Petroff, Maxime Perrin, Sebastien Benz and David Jilli, would like to take the opportunity provided by the High End trade show in Munich to announce the changes which have just taken place. From now on it is Jean-‐Pascal Panchard who will take over the running of the company, though they will continue to provide their expertise to it. Jean-‐Pascal Panchard is also a fully qualified HES electronic engineer and a holder of an Executive MBA, but he has in addition a solid experience in both marketing and business development. He has worked in the electronics industry for many years and developed all sorts of activities in the area of high-‐end audio. He has notably founded and run a business in this industry for 10 years, looked after a club for hi-‐fi enthusiasts for 15 years and worked for 5 years for the prestigious brand NAGRA, including one year as director of the High End department. Jean-‐Pascal will be assisted by Lucas Perrin, a young EPFL electronic engineer who was experience as a sound engineer and who has already worked with Stenheim in the past. Seamless development The founding spirit, which gave birth to Stenheim will be totally preserved and even strengthened. The idea is to keep the original and extremely rigorous approach to developing products. Stenheim loudspeakers are in fact made out of solid aluminium and the care that goes into their fine tuning is worthy of a Swiss watchmaker, such is the remarkable precision achieved in audio reproduction. One of their chief characteristics is the great stability, which is provided by the case, as aluminium is mechanically highly stable, and their total respect for the phase. Put together, these two qualities allow them to produce a highly realistic three-‐dimensional soundstage. The brand has also become a specialist in custom finishes. According to the buyer’s wishes, it is quite capable of supplying models polished to a mirror finish, lacquered like a piano in any colour you like, or even covered in precious wood or ostrich leather… Stenheim will continue to produce the highly successful Alumine range and the bass unit, which can be used with these compact models. An entirely new product line, called Reference, is already being developed and will be presented in 2014. _____________________________________ To visit Steinheim at the HIGH END 2013 show in Munich: Hotel "Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski" Room Hofgarten II, www.kempinski.com. Contact: Jean-‐Pascal Panchard, tel. +41 79 220 02 22, [email protected]