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Gallo Images and Touchline Photo Now Present a Complete Image Solution |
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Written by Press Release
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
The merger
this week of Gallo Images and Touchline Photo will provide customers in
the advertising, publishing, corporate and film production sectors with
a complete image solution encompassing Creative and News, Sport and
Entertainment content.
Added
to this, professional photo assignment and digital asset management
services will now also complement Gallo Images offer to sub-Saharan
African clients.
Bruce Stewart, Group CEO of Gallo Images,
says of the merger, "This exciting development at Gallo Images
accelerates the entry to market of attention-grabbing pictures and film
footage for advertisers, magazines and corporates who are under
pressure to reach their customers quicker. Where setting up a photo
shoot is time-consuming and costly, our clients can view an astounding
assortment of images within seconds of entering keywords or subjects on
www.gettyimages.com to match their brief exactly - without impacting
their budgets."
Gallo Images
will continue to operate out of Johannesburg and the existing Touchline
Photo offices in Cape Town, providing customers in sub-Saharan Africa
with a one-stop destination for the entire Getty Images Creative, Film,
News, Sport and Entertainment collections. Added to this customers now
have the benefit of Gallo Images' comprehensive, specialist collections
which are distributed worldwide under the brand names, Roots and
Cape-to-Cairo. Plus, Touchline Photo's renowned South African sporting
archive and daily wire service will continue to provide news customers
with coverage of local and international sporting events.
About Gallo Images
Gallo
Images is the leading provider of still and moving images in
sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East to the advertising, publishing,
film and corporate sectors. Gallo Images is Getty Images Master
Delegate in these two regions and also provides a comprehensive
specialist collection of images distributed worldwide under the brand
names Roots and Cape-to-Cairo.
About Touchline Photo
Touchline
Photo provides newspaper, magazine and book publishers in sub-Saharan
Africa with news, sport and entertainment images from Getty Images
Editorial and from their renowned South African sporting archive and
daily wire service of local sport and entertainment events.
About Getty Images
Getty
Images provides communication professionals with an indispensable
resource for searching, purchasing and downloading royalty-free and
rights managed images. From still and film imagery, Getty Images hosts
a wide range of innovative, world-class collections at
www.gettyimages.com. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 November 2006 )
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