DVA Backs Future-Forecasting Media-Mogul Conference

Studio executives forecast the future of home-media industry and shed light on its direction at a two-day conference in Century City, California.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 3, 2007 -- Ryan Kugler, President and Co-Owner of Distribution Video & Audio (DVA), the largest home-entertainment closeout buyer in the United States, is proud to lend his support as a sponsor of this year's Entertainment Supply Chain Academy (ESCA) conference - a two-day program attended by senior executives from all major home-entertainment studios and designed to indoctrinate senior management on the changing dynamics and technologies in the entertainment supply chain industry.

The event, which will be held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on June 27th and 28th, 2007, will bring together key figures from the home-video, audio and gaming industries with leading supply chain professionals and retailers for a much-needed forum on - and platform for learning about - the latest opportunities in the delivery of current and emerging packaged and downloadable entertainment formats.

In addition to invaluable updates and insights from representatives of all sectors in the entertainment supply chain about issues such as forecasting, returns, RFID, retail data, emerging channels and new formats, this year's event will present experienced knowledge about how leading content holders and retailers are building their own "digital supply chain" infrastructures for the next era of virtual content delivery. This companion program, entitled Digital Supply Chain Developers Conference, will run commensurate with the ESCA event and at the same location.

About Ryan Kugler

Ryan Kugler, President and Co-Owner of Distribution Video & Audio (DVA) and First National Pictures (FNP), is an authority on the video closeout world. His unique blend of creative and operational strengths as well as his exceptional skills in sales assisted him in founding the Closeout Division and growing DVA into the largest home entertainment closeout buyer in the United States.

Ryan has developed exceptional relationships with practically every major movie studio, from whom he buys excess inventory to service his 350-plus accounts whose storefronts number some 24,000. With his impressive account base, including the likes of Best Buy, Target, Musicland and Circuit City, Ryan has expanded the Closeout Division to more than 30 employees and moves in excess of 15 million units per year generating over $20 million in annual sales.

First National Pictures (FNP) was founded to release content previously unavailable on DVD. Ryan resurrected the FNP name in homage to the early twentieth-century movie studio (responsible for such classic films as "The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin and "Tarzan of the Apes"), which in 1927 was bought by Warner Bros.

Ryan is currently collaborating with best-selling author Eric Sherman on a book that details his vast experience of the home video business.

Fully aware of the direction in which the ever-changing video industry is headed, Ryan's latest endeavor is to develop a broadband video-on-demand website.

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