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With Mother’s Day coming up on the 18th March, we’ve got some great gift ideas if you want to say it with music this year.

Evoke Mio SRP £129.99

Bring a splash of colour to any room with this classic easy-to-use digital and FM radio, based on our multi-award winning Evoke-1S.

An easy-to-use compact radio with great audio and chic design, Evoke Mio comes in five striking two-tone colour schemes: teal, lava, grape, cherry and noir.

Featuring a kitchen timer, alarm and auto-dimming OLED display, Evoke Mio also has an input for your iPod and takes an optional ChargePAK rechargeable battery pack for portable listening.

Evoke Mio Orla kiely Abacus Edition SRP £149.99

And for a designer take on the Evoke Mio, the Orla Kiely Abacus edition is a stunning looking radio which we think any mum would be pleased to receive.

Featuring Orla’s Abacus Flower print in slate grey front and back, a mirror chromed folding handle, walnut veneered cabinet and cream fascia, the radio fits perfectly with Orla’s extensive homeware range and contrasts nicely with our existing Evoke Mio by Orla Kiely featuring Orla’s signature stem print.

One Classic Series II SRP £64.99

This digital radio not only sounds fantastic and is easy to use, it also has a new Listen Later feature which enables you to save your favourite programme and play it back later. How handy is that?

The One Classic II has a smooth black or white satin touch finish  and has an input for iPod/MP3 players and digital radio pause and rewind.

This cutie offers hours of portable listening per charge of the optional rechargeable ChargePAK C6L, reducing the cost to you and to the environment. Alternatively you can use six standard C size alkaline batteries.

Contour 100Di SRP £99.99

A compact and stylish iPod, iPhone and iPad dock, Contour 100Di has a small footprint but impressively powerful, detailed audio. Its contemporary design sits easily in most interiors and its beautifully engineered revolving dock will accommodate iPod, iPhone and iPad models.

 Perfect for an office, kitchen or living room shelf, this sleek dock delivers big sound. The Contour 100Di features both DAB and FM radio

 If you want to listen to internet radio then simply download the Pure Lounge app onto an iPod/iPhone and gain access to thousands of radio stations, tracks and ambient sounds as well as all the music you want wherever you want it via the Pure Music subscription service.

 There’s a slimline remote which attaches neatly to the back of the unit (magnetically) and the dock itself rotates seamlessly to be tucked away from dust particles when not in use.

Move 2500 SRP £89.99

A compact, light personal DAB digital and FM radio, Move 2500 is ideal if she loves radio on the move.

With its sleek aluminium fascia, mirror finish casing, recessed controls and the latest in-ear headphones it might seem a shame to hide Move 2500 in a pocket. 

Not only does it look great but Move 2500 sounds fantastic too thanks to its in-ear, noise-isolating headphones and separate bass and treble controls.

Move 2500 is ideal for the commute or a trip to the gym and if she’s off on holiday it’s an ideal travel companion as its multi-standard digital tuner will pick up local digital stations wherever she goes.

Jet lagged and tired we look back at a successful CES 2012, Las Vegas, and thank all of you who stopped by to see the unveiling of our new brand identity to celebrate our 10th Anniversary and two new additions to the product range.

The week started for the Pure PR team at the CES Unveiled press show in the Venetian Hotel where journalists had a first glimpse of Sensia 200D Connect and Contour 200i Air.

Contour 200i Air is a powerful and stylish wireless audio system with Apple AirPlay that allows you to play your music wirelessly via a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch without the need to dock the device. Contour 200i Air will be available in the UK at the end of January at an SRP of £199.99.

Guests to our stand were also drawn to Sensia 200D Connect thanks to its colour touchscreen and iconic design. Available in the UK in the first quarter of 2012 for £249.99 this second generation Sensia has upgraded performance, room-filling audio and one touch and timed USB recording.

Pure’s new brand identity was most prominent at our booth in the Las Vegas Convention Centre, South Hall. Many new contacts were made just from people being attracted to our fresh new look and of course our exciting new products!

Thanks to everyone who came to view our products and get to know us better and we look forward to seeing you again next year!

For more information about our new products and branding please visit www.pure.com. For high res images and review samples please contact chloe.atkins@pure.com.

10th January 2012, PURE –  the world leading maker of wireless music and radio systems – is celebrating its 10th anniversary by unveiling a colourful new brand identity at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Says Paul Smith, Pure’s general manager: “In the past ten years, Pure has evolved from a relatively niche UK radio manufacturer, to an internationally recognised consumer electronics brand. To launch Pure into its next decade, we felt it was time to take the brand to the next level, building on our strengths from the past ten years but also reflecting the exciting future ahead.”

Colin Crawford, Pure’s director of marketing, continues: “We worked with leading London design agency Lambie-Nairn to come up with a distinctive and contemporary take on the Pure logo and a series of bright, colourful ‘expressions’ which will be used across everything we do. The new brand identity celebrates Pure’s classic design heritage, while illustrating the rich and vibrant content experience that our products and services deliver.”

A market-leading and innovative British company, Pure was established ten years ago as part of Imagination Technologies (one of the world’s top three suppliers of semiconductor intellectual property) to showcase Imagination’s new technology areas. The Pure Evoke-1, which was the first high-volume sub £100 digital radio quickly sold out and had people queuing on London’s Oxford Street to get their hands on one, and now, over 70% of DAB digital radios are powered by Imagination’s technology.

Pure continues to effectively pioneer, drive and showcase products incorporating many of Imagination’s key technologies and focusses on designing better solutions that connect people to the things that matter to them. Its success in digital radio in the UK is now being replicated throughout Europe, Australia and North America, with over 4 million broadcast and wireless audio systems now sold.

Please visit www.pure.com or Pure’s new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pure for more information or contact jenny.robinson@pure.com

International CES 2012, Las Vegas, USA, 10th January 2012: Pure – the world leading maker of wireless music and radio systems – reveals Sensia 200D Connect, the enhanced follow-up to the multi award-winning Sensia, the world’s first wireless music system with a large high-resolution, capacitive colour touchscreen and advanced user-interface.

A fully featured wireless music and radio system, Sensia 200D Connect uses Wi-Fi technology to allow users to stream a wide range of audio including millions of songs through Pure Music*; music stored on a home computer or network storage device; tens of thousands of internet radio stations and hundreds of thousands of podcasts and on demand programmes; a wide range of ambient and natural sounds, as well as digital and FM radio.

Pure Music, Pure’s cloud-based on-demand music service and Pure Tag, a unique, free, tagging service, are seamlessly integrated into the Sensia 200D Connect. Pure Music allows subscribers to discover, explore and listen to millions of music tracks for a monthly subscription of £4.99, and keeps the user’s favourites and playlists synchronised across Pure’s range of wireless music systems, PCs, Macs and smartphones/tablets running the free** companion iOS or Android Pure Lounge App. Pure Tag is a free service that allows users to bookmark tracks they hear on the radio, and subsequently explore around those tracks via the powerful search and recommendation facilities of the PURE Lounge (www.thelounge.com), to discover more about the artists and their back catalogue, podcasts, or even branch out and discover similar and related artists.

At an SRP of £249.99, the PURE Sensia 200D Connect delivers upgraded performance, room-filling audio and one touch and timed USB recording, and a host of additional features. It will be available in the UK within the first quarter of 2012 but is being exclusively previewed at the International CES 2012 show in Las Vegas from January 10-13th.

For more information and review samples please contact jenny.robinson@pure.com

At International CES 2012, Las Vegas, USA: Pure presents Contour 200i Air, a powerful and stylish wireless audio system with Apple AirPlay* that allows the user to play their music wirelessly via a PC or Mac or via an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch without the need to dock the device.

 At an SRP of just £199.99, the Pure Contour 200i Air not only supports wireless streaming, but also includes a dock for iPad, iPhone and iPod for charging as well as music playback.

Says Colin Crawford, Pure’s director of marketing: “Some day we’ll wonder why we ever had to physically connect devices, and Apple AirPlay is leading that behavioural seachange. There is nothing to beat the convenience of sitting back in your armchair to control your music collection with your iPad or iPhone, while the music itself is played beautifully and powerfully by Contour 200i Air.”

Contour 200i Air connects simply to the user’s home network via Ethernet or WiFi, and produces 36W RMS of digital quality sound delivering an expansive, room-filling listening experience. The DSP corrected, high-efficiency audio amplifiers and custom designed 3.5 inch dual full-range speaker drive units ensure exceptional clarity and tonal richness.

Contour 200i Air is an ideal companion to the free Pure Lounge app which enables access to tens of thousands of internet radio stations, on demand content (podcasts and listen again programmes) and ambient sounds, as well as the ability to discover, explore and listen to millions of music tracks via the Pure Music subscription service*. All content from the Pure Lounge app including Pure Music, can be streamed wirelessly to Contour 200i Air.

 ‘Works with iPhone, iPod and iPad’ compliant, the Pure Contour 200i Air allows users to dock, charge and play their iPad, iPod or iPhone. When docked, music stored on the Apple device can be controlled using the supplied credit card style remote control. It is also possible to connect the Contour 200i Air to a home AV system using the digital audio ouput and there is an auxiliary input for connecting an MP3 player. A multi-coloured LED status indicator shows which source the Contour 200i Air is playing.

For high res images and review samples please contact jenny.robinson@pure.com

If white tech is up your street then PURE has a lot for you to choose from! Why not create your very own white Christmas with one of our snowy products?

ONE Mini Series II (SRP £49.99)

ONE Classic Series II (SRP £64.99)

ONE Elite Series II (SRP £84.99)

Sensia (SRP £249.99)

Oasis Flow (SRP £149.99)

Twilight (SRP £139.99)

For high res images and review samples please contact emma.penfold@pure.com.

PURE is pleased to announce the winners of the second WildVerse poetry competition, which was launched earlier this year in conjunction with RSPB Wildlife Explorers, Fun Kids radio station, and Reading for Life.

The winning poems were selected from over 1800 entries by Lauren St John, author of Blue Peter’s Book of the Year 2011 – Dead Man’s Cove and patron of the Born Free foundation.The poems will be recorded by pupils from Woolenwick Infants School in Stevenage and will be played out on Fun Kids radio station between the 27^th and 31^st December 2011. The recordings will also be available on the RSPB Audioboo channel, the Fun Kids iTunes podcast channel and the PURE Lounge radio and media portal (www.thelounge.com) and PURE’s range of internet radios.

Lauren St John says: “The standard is quite astonishingly high, especially in the Under 8s category. How heartening that children of that age are producing such inspired, moving and literate work. Amazing.”

Thomas, age seven from London, was the overall winner in the under eights category with his poem, ‘Not an Otter Spotter’ about his otter spotting encounter, while Ian, age thirteen from West Lothian, won the over eights category with his poem entitled ‘The Kingfisher’.

Runners up in the under eights category included: ’Lockerbie Woods’ by Alasdair  (6) from Lockerbie, ‘My Autumn Friend’ by Joseph (6) from Thatcham, ‘Barden Lake’ by Lizzie (6) from Tonbridge and ‘The Compton Buzzard’ by Rosa (6)from Guildford. Runners up in the over eights category included: Flames of Green Epipactis Sancta by Aidan (12) from Thirsk, The Miniature World by Ellen (11) from Worthing, Urban Mission, Patrick (13) from Manchester and Phil the Pheasant by Olivia (10) from Portglenone.

The main winners will receive a PURE Sensia internet-connected digital radio with colour touchscreen and the runners up will receive a PURE ONE Flow internet radio so they can hear their winning poems being played on-air.

To listen to the winning poems,  listen to Fun Kids on digital or internet radio between the 27^th and 31^st December 2011. We will host the audio on the PURE Lounge (www.thelounge.com) in the New Year.

PURE Lounge App now available for Android

The award winning PURE Lounge App is now available on the Android Market Place. The PURE Lounge App delivers a gateway to a world of local, national and global radio content on the move with over 18,000 radio stations available to listen to, podcasts, listen again programme and ambient PURE Sounds. The Android App will also support PURE Music, PURE’s new cloud based on-demand music streaming service that allows the user to discover, explore and listen to over 15 million music tracks for a monthly subscription of £4.99, which is being launched in December.

The new Lounge App can be downloaded today for free at the Android Market Place in the UK, throughout Europe and in the US.

For high res images and further information please contact chloe.atkins@pure.com.

PURE has teamed up with Chessington World of Adventures Resort to bring the soundscape of Britain’s Wildest Adventure to its internet-connected digital radios and its radio and media portal, thelounge.com

Chessington World of Adventures pipe sounds of nature into their safari-themed resort hotel rooms after carrying out a survey that found that birds twittering and rainforest noises are amongst the most soothing sounds to help people get a good night’s sleep. The Chessington soundscape is now available through PURE’s range of eight internet-connected digital radios, thelounge.com and the PURE Lounge iPhone app enabling users to drift off to sleep at home or away while listening to monkeys calling and lions roaring.

David Smith at the Chessington World of Adventures Resort said “Families staying at our on-site hotel have really appreciated drifting off to our nature soundscape and we think it’s fantastic that PURE has added the sounds to their radios so that our guests can take a little bit of their Chessington experience home with them.”

To listen to the soundscape simply follow the link http://new.thelounge.com/uk/feature/chessington-zoo

Please visit www.pure.com/ www.thelounge.com/ or call 0845 1489001 for more information.

Smooth Radio has launched the UK’s first national Christmas radio station on the Digital One platform – Smooth Christmas.

Smooth Christmas started broadcasting on 1^st November, 2011 and will be playing non-stop Christmas music to get people in the mood for the festive season right up until 27^th December, 2011. If you love Christmas music this is definitely the station for you to listen to and it has the bonus of being completely commercial free!

The core Christmas songs that you can listen to on Smooth Christmas are:

• Band-Aid – Do they know it’s Christmas Time
• Mariah Carey – All I want for Christmas
• Jackson 5 – Santa Claus is coming to town
• Greg Lake – I believe in Father Christmas
• Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around The Christmas tree
• John Lennon – Happy Xmas (War is Over)
• Dean Martin – Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
• Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmastime
• Mud – Lonely this Christmas
• Pogues/Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
• Chris Rea – Driving Home For Christmas
• Ronettes – Sleigh Ride

Get a call from Santa on Christmas Eve!

Smooth’s ‘Real’ Santa will appear on air on Christmas Eve, bringing festive cheer to everyone. If you would like your child to receive a call from Santa visit the Smooth website and fill in your name, address and telephone number. The closing date to enter for Santa calls is 23.59 on Sunday 18^th December, 2011.