American Audio Visual Center, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with satellite locations and regional operations throughout the United States. Since the company’s inception on March 13th, 1993, American Audio Visual Center has grown into one of North America’s premier hospitality audio-visual, multimedia event staging, and creative content companies. Trademarke
d as the Extreme Customer Service® Company,
American Audio Visual Center sets itself apart from the average audio-visual vendor, through its systems and culture. The company’s ownership, Jim Carlson, believes that service and core values should always be the cornerstone of a great company. By offering Extreme Customer Service® and creative, outside-the-box solutions for his customers, Jim Carlson has helped turn American Audio Visual Center’s hotel division into the chosen partner for many of the world’s most prestigious hotel and resort brands, as well as management and ownership companies. Since the company’s first hotel relationship, American Audio Visual Center has branched out to become the premier audio-visual service provider for hotels and resorts throughout North America. The company’s hotel and resort portfolio now includes the Ritz-Carlton, Fairmont, Westin, Sheraton, Radisson, Marriott, Hyatt, and Hilton brands. In 1998, American Audio Visual Center was recognized by Inc 500 Magazine as one of America’s fastest growing privately held companies. American Audio Visual Center is known by hotels and resorts as a highly-innovative company due to its proprietary sales and marketing systems and additional revenue streams created through the company’s national staging and high-definition content division, Blue Avenue Studios. American Audio Visual Center’s unique Magnet Sales System ™ has driven revenues and assisted hotels and resorts in accurate forecasting. The Magnet Sales System ™ increases dollars to the bottom line and has earned American Audio Visual Center many new and loyal hoteliers. It is a key element to the company’s successful growth. Blue Avenue Studios is known as one of the world’s most dynamic show and event staging groups. Blue Avenue Studios and their turn-key approach to world-class show design and execution of live events has earned American Audio Visual Center the reputation as one of the industry’s top traveling multimedia production companies throughout North America. Blue Avenue Studios is also a key element in securing business and driving new revenue streams at the company’s hotels and resorts. Blue Avenue Studios is also American Audio Visual Center’s creative division. Blue Avenue Studios is a great marketing partner as evidenced by assisting hotels and resorts in their marketing efforts through turn-key, high-definition video, web-based multimedia content design, and production. History has shown that American Audio Visual Center has grown to be the undisputed leader in customer service as well as an innovator of creative solutions and systems for the corporate presentation and hospitality industry. The future of American Audio Visual Center’s success will be decided by the company’s customers as American Audio Visual Center continues to create new ways to deliver value beyond normal, which some may consider Extreme.
