NEC Honored For Digital Signage Solutions

"NEC Display Solutions has successfully exploited its ability to provide new products and enhanced services, while capitalizing on its global footprint," said Abhigyan Sengupta, an industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan, in a statement. "The company has also displayed an uncanny ability to understand customer requirements and service customized solutions, thereby delivering on customers' expectations."

According to Frost & Sullivan, the San Antonio-based business research consultancy, the award is "presented each year to the company that has best demonstrated the ability to expand its customer base while maintaining the existing one, with more innovative value creation and enhancement strategies than competing vendors."

"It's an honor to be recognized for all facets of our digital signage solution," said Pierre Richer, NEC's president and COO, in a statement. "This award recognizes these differentiating qualities and is further proof of our customer-centric strategies aimed at offering a total solution."

Earlier this fall, NEC Display had an impressive showing in the 2008 VARBusiness Annual Report Card, turning in the second-best performance in quality (a score of 105, tying it with Toshiba and EMC) overall in the ARC survey. In the display category specifically, NEC bowed to Samsung by only one point, though it did see a slight loss in the partnership subcategory and specifically Partner Portal and Communication.

It's been a busy season overall for the Itasca, Ill.-based display maker. In October, NEC announced it was discontinuing production of large-format plasma screens to focus on LCD technology for conference room and digital signage products. Richer told ChannelWeb at the time that LCDs accounted for about 95 percent of NEC's large screen sales, and plasma only 5 percent.