Panasonic, a worldwide leader in Full HD 3D and Connected TV technologies, announced today the launch of the Panasonic Raise the Bar Tour– a seven-week, major market North American tour designed to give consumers a chance to experience Panasonic’s 2012 line-up of home entertainment, digital imaging, home appliance and personal care products, including the latest Full HD Smart VIERA® TVs featuring a vastly expanded range of interactive apps for gaming, fitness, live sports, video streaming and much more.
The first leg of the PanasonicRaise the Bar Tour will kick off this week at The Grove in Los Angeles and The Prudential Center in Boston from April 11-15. The tour will then make stops in major North American markets including Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, DC through May 27. (See specific locations and dates below).
The Raise the Bar Tourwill give visitors an opportunity to experience for themselves Panasonic’s critically acclaimed 2012 line of Smart VIERA HDTVs, VIERA Connect-enabled IPTVs, Blu-ray DiscTM players, LUMIX cameras, HD camcorders, home appliances including microwave ovens, and personal care products including men’s electric razors and women’s beauty products.
The display will also feature a 3D theater where visitors will be able to experience stunning 3D content from the Beijing and Vancouver Olympic Games as well as a sneak peek at the upcoming London Summer Olympic Games which will be broadcast for the first time in 3D via a partnership between Panasonic and NBC Sports. At each tour stop, visitors will also be able to record video messages for the Olympic athletes heading to London. Panasonic is a worldwide Olympic sponsor in the HDTV, Blu-ray DiscTM and Digital Imaging categories.
"For consumers, seeing is believing. We created the Raise the Bar Tour to give consumers across North America a personal look at all of our exciting 2012 products in home entertainment, personal care and home appliances," said Shiro Kitajima, President of Panasonic Consumer Marketing Company of North America. "Our 2012 product lines have truly raised the bar to a new level for consumers. From our new Smart VIERA® Full HD 3D TVs and 3D Blu-ray Disc Home Theater systems to our ever-expanding VIERA Connect IPTV features, LUMIX digital cameras and camcorders and our innovative personal care and home appliances products, visitors to our tour will be able to experience for themselves how amazing and easy-to-use they all are."
Visitors at the Raise the Bar Tour will also have exclusive opportunities to win1 2012 Panasonic products by tweeting product photos from the tour stops to the Panasonic #RaisetheBar hash tag. In addition, visitors that"check in" at Tour locations via Foursquare and Facebook Places will also win special commemorative prizes.
Also, in conjunction with the Tour, Panasonic will be giving away1 a trip for two to the London Olympic Games this summer.
For more information on the Panasonic Raise the Bar Tour, including addresses and tour hours of operation, please visit http://www.panasonic.com/raisethebarand click on the "Come See Them Live" banner.
About Panasonic Consumer Marketing Company of North America
Based in Secaucus, N.J., Panasonic Consumer Marketing Company of North America, a Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American Subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC) and the hub of Panasonic’s U.S. marketing, sales, service and R&D operations, offers a wide-range of consumer solutions in the U.S. and Canada. The Company’s portfolio of innovative consumer products ranges from VIERA Full HD 3D Televisions, Blu-ray players, LUMIX Digital Cameras, Camcorders, Home Audio, Cordless Phones, Home Appliances, Wellness and Personal Care products and more.
Panasonic is pledged to practice prudent, sustainable use of the earth’s natural resources and protect our environment through the company’s Eco Ideasprograms. Panasonic was the only Consumer Electronics company to be listed in the top ten brands on the Interbrand Best Global Green Brands 2011 ranking. Follow Panasonic @panasonicdirect, and additional company information for media is available at www.panasonic.com/pressroom.
For more information, contact: Chris De Maria (Panasonic) 201-348-7182 christopher.demaria@us.panasonic.com.
As a service to our readers, Around the Rings will provide verbatim texts of selected press releases issued by Olympic-related organizations, federations, businesses and sponsors.
These press releases appear as sent to Around the Rings and are not edited for spelling, grammar or punctuation.
20 Years at #1:
Últimas Noticias
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons
Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left the feeling that the Italian and the Spaniard will shape the great duel that came to help us through the duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era.
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024
She is the third in her sport and the seventh athlete to achieve it in the same edition; in Santiago 2023 she was the first athlete with disabilities to compete at the Pan American level and won a medal.
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris
Argentinian Rodrigo Isgró received a five-game suspension for an indiscipline in the circuit’s decisive clash that would exclude him until the final or the bronze match; the Federation will seek to make the appeal successful.
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years
The Kenyan received the maximum sanction for irregularities in his biological passport and the Court considered that he was part of a system of “deliberate and sophisticated doping” to improve his performance. He will lose his record and the bronze medal at the Doha World Cup.
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”
The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case of the 23 positive controls before the Tokyo Games that were announced a few weeks ago and shook the swimming world. “I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low,” he said.
