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December 19, 2005
New Alliance With Isifa
New Alliance With Isifa
NEW YORK, December, 2005 – Index Stock Imagery, www.indexstock.com, continues to remain The Independent Choice For Your Imagination, and enjoy new alliances with impressive agents such as Isifa Image Service of the Czech Republic. Index’s top quality Rights Managed and Royalty Free images, along with its successful high resolution subscription product, Index Open (www.indexopen.com), will be expanded into the Czech and Slovak Republics.
“The Czech Republic is arguably the most Western-oriented economy in the former Soviet Republic, and has very good stock photo sales potential,” according to Peter McClusky, VP of Distribution at Index. He says, “We are confident that Isifa’s strong customer service, combined with Index’s ever-growing and diverse image collection, point the way to a very successful partnership.
Isifa is the “largest independent photo agency in the Czech and Slovak Republic,” and has been operating for ten years in both countries, with its head office based in Prague. According to Georg Hodek, CEO of Isifa: “The agency offers an extensive database of Rights Managed and Royalty Free imagery and editorial/press images. Isifa is the only media library in the Czech Republic with a unique archive featuring themes relating to Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia. The portfolio extends to film footage, produced from 1948 to 1989 in the Czech Republic. The company’s broad reach of 1.5 million images extends to advertising agencies, magazines, newspapers, and corporations, including bill boards, posters, print advertising and annual reports. Our goal is to be the #1 photo agency serving Central and Eastern Europe, in order to gain international brand recognition and to develop and distribute content worldwide. We are partners with about 70 agencies around the world and enjoy work from over 100 photographers mainly from the Czech Republic.”
Other points of interest on Isifa are its expansion plans into Poland next year, and its broad sales reach into Romania, Hungary and Slovenia. It is a brand known for quality and offers frequent promotions, client visits and bonus programs to interest customers. It maintains the only commercial film archive within the Czech and Slovak Republic; it is a partner of the Czech association of photographers known as “AF”; it is a partner and sponsor of the Czech Art Directors Club and the Prague House of Photography; it helps with distribution and production of “Lidove Noviny,” the second largest Czech newspaper, and it represents the Czech short film and documentary archive, “Kratky Film.”
George Hodek, CEO, founded Isifa in 1995 after enjoying management work for the Mitsubishi Automotive Corporation. Peter McClusky, VP International at Index, says: “We enjoy working with such forward thinking international companies as Isifa, and look forward to a long and prosperous relationship. This is a market that is growing rapidly for us, as the world becomes smaller and the image industry more interconnected.
About Index Stock
Index Stock Imagery, Inc.™ The Independent Choice For Your Imagination, is an award winning and innovative supplier of photographs, illustrations, and digital images. It represents over 1,700 professional photographers and 80 independent still image providers and has agents in 55 foreign countries. It represents dozens of domestic collections and has 1,000,000 images available online, of which 250,000 are Royalty Free images. Index was the first stock agency to begin storing and distributing images electronically. It started scanning its collection in 1992 and launched its first e-commerce site in 1994. Index’s million-image library is one of the largest and most complete collections of commercially available images in the world. Its four major Web sites, www.indexstock.com, www.indexopen.com, www.photostogo.com, and www.photostogounlimited.com, support emailable lightboxes, e-commerce shopping, prints, posters, postcards, cell phone wallpapers, and customized price grids and high-res comps, for qualified customers in the high end design, Web marketing, small business and consumer marketplaces.
Index Stock Imagery, Inc. and Photos To Go are registered trademarks.
Contact:
Pat Hunt
path@indexstock.com
Posted by Pat at December 19, 2005 10:43 PM
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