Presentation of Avance Rapide Communication activities

1. Three specialized branches that will respond to all your various
challenges: communication, marketing, sales promotion, training
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2. Teaching, knowledge and technology
A teaching process tailored to the specific issues in high-tech
environments – A full catalog of training courses and customized modules
Courses dedicated to markets such as: Audio-visual – New media – Information
Technologies – Telco…
An added value to your technological advantage
This branch of Avance Rapide specializes in promoting products offering
a high technical or technological added value
Promoting new tools and solutions for creation and diffusion. Product launches, event
organization, road shows…
An added value to your image
Avance Rapide Communication is an agency specialized in creating and
communicating in the field of digital tools and media and information
technology.
Analyzing and providing quick answers to your problems in terms of product
launches, promoting new tools for digital creation and diffusion…
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3. Key figures
•Created in1986
•Permanent staff : 12
•30 regular collaborators: consultants, editors, graphic designers, webmaster,
multi-lingual expert instructors…
• Over 120 operations each year and 300 simultaneous events
• Over 40 calling upon the agency for various missions
• 2008 turnover: 2.5 million euros (3.5 million dollars, up 6 %)
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4. History & Background
Subsidiary, of Avance Rapide and managed as independant company, Avance Rapide
Communication works on several markets having a common point: technologies centred on
medias, entertainment, visualization or high-tech.
Its team of partners is fully dedicated to their customers, offering them tailor-made solutions.
Avance Rapide works with all actors on the market of new technologies, and its speed and
flexibility allow it to tackle projects or requests of any kind.
Avance Rapide Communication is more specifically geared towards the professional digital
market. It was founded by Stéphan Faudeux, a journalist specialized in the professional
multimedia industry, and who is also a consultant and instructor.
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5. The markets we are in touch with
DESIGN - AUGMENTED REALITY
Entertainment, Industry, creatives, multimedia agencies,
architects, designers OUR FRENCH DATABASE
Including French Speaking area EMEA
Belgium and Swiss markets
VIDEO GAMES - ENTERTAINEMENT
Event organizers, theme parks, museums, local organizations... 2070 Journalists ( Newspapers, TV, Blogs..)
CINEMA - BROADCAST 3500 Direct contact for Media & Entertainment
Distributors, cinema venue managers, producers, post-producers, markets ( TV, corporate , cinema, videogames)
directors, screenwriters, creators, cameramen, AV & 3D contractors, 50 schools and Universities specialized in the field of
broadcasters, telecom managers... Cinema Broadcast, videogames, design
COMMUNICATION & NEW MEDIA
Creatives, advertising-communication-multimedia agencies..
EDUCATION & CORPORATE
Professional schools and training centres, universities, students, teachers, online
training, university, ministry, public adminsitration...
LOBBIES
Associations, trade unions, users groups, ...
DISTRIBUTION
System integrators & experts, resellers stores, retailers,online stores...
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6. Taking part in your product and service development cycle...
AVANCE RAPIDE COMMUNICATION Goals
Technical watch
Counseling
Press relations &
Public relations
• To increase awareness of your brand
in terms of culture and opportunity
• To take an active part in the development
of your activity, with a focus on profitability Networking
and immediate return on investment. Counseling
Production
& • To broaden your company's influence in
Event Planning terms of culture and opportunity, Creating
synergies (our network becomes yours...)
• To unite and to promote your your
your know-how and your products
Publishing
Conferences Communication
Planning Web- video - Print
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7. Our services
The broad range of services we offer was developed to respond to the most exacting
demands, and to add more value to the communication of providers, users or
developers in the world of IT and digital tools and medias.
• Press Relationslasting relationship with the journalists
Building a steady and
• Public relations brand through events and day by day communications
Cultivating our clients
• Event & Communication Productionbrand to developp your network and your
Tailor-made promotion of your products and your
notoriety
• Conference planning to your credibility and will relay your news
Gathering experts that will add
• Analysis and technological watch
Providing reference points on a fluctuating market
• Networking Counseling dimensional relationships with customers
Thinking and acting to build new
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8. Our priorities
•Give weight to your offering and boost your B-to-B sales
•Prospect and develop customer loyalty on converging markets and technologies
•Ensure maximum ROI
Enhancing your image
• Our strength
Avance Rapide's expertise enables us to respond quickly to all challenges when it
comes to launching, promoting and using new tools or products for design or
communication.
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9. Press Relations & Public Relations
• Some examples
‣ PR Autodesk Media & Entertainement
‣ PR ProConsultant Informatique
‣ PR for Doremi Technologies ( Digital Server )
‣ PR & BtoB Meeting DataDirect Network ( Storage )
‣ PR & BtoB Meeting Imago ( Visioconference )
‣ PR for Adobe to invite Broadcasters to discover Flash Video ( TF1, France 5,
France 2, M6, Canal+ )
‣ Corporate Video for website and launch events (Nexans, Apple, SATIS, Sony,
Waterman, …)
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10. Press Relations & Public Relations
• Some examples
‣ PR for SATIS ( Reed Exhibitions )
‣ Creation of the concept Apple Expo Remix, Organization of all animations, and
promotion ( Reed Exhibtions )
‣ RP & Conferences for FIMAC ( International Audiovisual Festival for Content for
Corporate Communication )
‣ IT’s Life ( website, blog, news, video ) to promote this new event
‣ Dimension 3 , International 3D Stereo Forum
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11. Sourcing, Publishing & Communication
• Some examples
‣ Newsletter Pôle audiovisuel du Nord parisien ( public association )
‣ Publishing white paper for Sony France about High Def
‣ Newsletter Apple Expert Solution
‣ Newsletter Groupe Image ( post house )
‣ Newsletter Avid Technology
‣ +1000 articles as journalists
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12. Conferences
• Professional Events
‣ Planning of an event for architects and engineers, dealing with visualization
and audio-visual integration (conference, VIP cocktail, guided tour)
‣ Conference on HD for TDF > Conception & Animation will all decision-makers on
the French audio-visual market
‣ Conferences for SATIS ( Salon des Technologies Audiovisuelles, Multimédia )
‣ Conference for CNC ( National Center of Cinematography )
‣ Management and animations on Sony’s booth at TV Forum
• Prosumer Events
‣ Digital Talents’ Agora (Apple Expo Remix ’08) - 33 conferences over 4 days,
with Event conferences
‣ Conferences on the Photography Forum
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13. Events
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14. 2009
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DÉCOUVERTE
Le Japon
créatif
SALON
Les avions
à la fête
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FESTIVAL NUMÉRIQUE EUROPÉEN
Tout un monde en 3D
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15. ?
Why we are different ?
• We are specialized in the field of Digital Tools and Media
• We have a strong Social Networking in France with media,
public institution, private company, opinion leaders, key
targets, event organizers …
• We are really experienced about editing writing and video with
multiple platform ambitions and synergies of content (We
capitalized more than 2000 interviews as Communication
agency and as Journalists – around 200 video contents for
Web, corporate events, advertising…)
• Reactivity and expertise are in our DNA ! ....
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16. Why we are different ?
• We have a systemic vision of our clients environment
which provide us flexibility
Information
Brand & Products
messages
Notoriety
Marketing
messages
We build with our client a
communication within an interactive
Networking environment, with the
consciensousness we need to
&
develop convergences between
Relationships several fields and with the ability to
adjust plans according unexpected
event…
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17. Adding value to your image
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MEDIA REL ATIONS
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PUBLIC REL ATIONS
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Agency for counseling, communication and press relations - Avance Rapide Communication specialized
www.avancerapide.com
in creation and communications services in the world of IT and digital media
Avance Rapide is the executive producer of Dimension 3 and the HD Film Festival
www.avancerapide.com // +33 1 41 14 05 70 // 5 rue Victor Hugo 92310 Sèvres, France
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