Solus
Images, Stock Media Corporation Form
Alliance
LOS
ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - June 15, 2001 - Solus Images
and Stock Media Corporation have formed a strategic
alliance to market photography and multimedia
content through their respective Internet
distribution channels. This is the first agreement
between two business-to-business portals with
similar strategies in the stock photo industry. The
companies will combine sales networks and
inventories on two continents to license content to
commercial print and digital clients for editorial
and advertising use.
GlobalPhoto
SA (www.globalphoto.com), a French editorial portal
that represents high quality images from over 450
independent photographers and 25 stock photo
libraries, primarily services a broad range of
print publications that includes Paris Match, Bunte
and Time.
Stock
Media Corporation (www.stockmedia.net), operating
from its international headquarters in New York
City, is a digital source of content for web
designers, online publishing entities and broadcast
brands.
Stock
Media CEO Randy Taylor says of the alliance,
"GlobalPhoto's strength in Europe will serve our
contributors by enabling rapid expansion in key
growth markets online." Adds Floris De Bonneville,
President of GlobalPhoto SA, "The strong
technologies and photos of our companies make a
solid foundation for increasing our respective
shares of the American and European
markets."
Stock
Media is a registered trademark of Stock Media
Corporation, a privately held company, whose brands
includes the active web sites StockMedia.net,
StockMedia2000.com and StockFotos.com, together
with 60 domain names that begin with the word
"stock" that are scheduled for future
launch.
GlobalPhoto
SA, a privately held company which has completed
its first round of venture capital, has offices in
Paris, Dijon, London, New Delhi and New York. It
incorporates the companies of FDB and A'XEL photo
agencies.
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