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Company Reports Record Revenue of $251 Million in 2006; Plans
Strategic Investments in 2007 Including Launch of Microstock Offering
SEATTLE (February 15, 2007) - Corbis (www.corbis.com)
today announced its financial results for the year ended December 31,
2006. The Company announced total revenues were more than $251 million
(2005: $228 million) for the 2006 full-year, outperforming other major
companies in the industry with an increase of 11 percent from the
previous year on a currency neutral basis. “2006 was a
significant year for Corbis as we began reaping the benefits of past
strategic investments to exceed our cash flow targets and stay on plan
toward achieving profitability,” said Steve Davis, CEO, Corbis. “Our
continued industry-leading momentum demonstrates that customers are
increasingly recognizing Corbis as a creative brand, responding to our
market positioning and benefiting from our innovative combination of
image licensing and creative services.”
2006 Business Highlights
In 2006, Corbis expanded its geographic reach, particularly in Asia,
with the opening of an office in Beijing and a new partnership with
IndiaPicture.com to better position itself in two of the world’s
fastest growing economies. Corbis also acquired Australian Picture
Library (APL) to expand its presence in Australia.
Over the past year, the company promoted Gary Shenk to the role of
president and completed the realignment of its sales force to
customer-focused industry segments. Corbis also continued to streamline
its business operation and integrate systems from past acquisitions to
reduce business costs, drive efficiencies, scale for future growth and
improve its website and customer service. The Company
maintained its focus on providing customers with the world’s leading
collection of creative imagery and motion footage, adding nearly a half
million new images and thousands of hours of motion footage to its
collections. Corbis began representing content from leading collections
such as Playboy, the Smithsonian Institution, Hollywood Licensing, dick
clark productions as well as key niche partners, and it acquired
BeateWorks to enhance its preeminent CorbisOutline entertainment
collection. The Company also invested heavily in the production of
wholly owned Rights Managed (RM) and Royalty-Free (RF) imagery and
motion footage.
Platforms for Growth in 2007
Building on our heritage of innovation, Corbis in 2007 is making
strategic investments to drive growth. The Company remains focused on
providing the best content in the industry. Corbis’ experienced
in-house Creative Intelligence department is helping to guide teams of
talented photographers and video producers around the world to generate
high quality RF and RM content that is relevant to what customers are
seeking. Corbis will also further enhance its world leading collection
of photography and improve its motion footage collection by actively
pursuing new partners across the content spectrum. Corbis is focusing
on expanding the scope, depth and geographic reach of its
industry-leading Rights Services offerings, including introducing a
tailored solution to meet the needs of the broadcast advertising
community, expanding the geographic reach of its Rights & Music
Clearances team and working more closely with corporate customers to
help them leverage entertainment content for new product innovation. Additionally, Corbis
will launch an innovative entry into the emerging microstock space,
full details of which the Company will announce in the second quarter
of 2007. “We are optimistic
about the year ahead and are focused on three growth priorities:
building the best pictures period, enhancing our industry-leading
Rights Services and launching a fresh microstock offering,” said Gary
Shenk, President, Corbis. “We’re excited to enter the microstock space,
and we view it as an attractive, complementary business given our
assets and expertise. We plan on building a substantial, fast-growing
and profitable business in this category.”
About Corbis
Corbis is a world leader in digital media. By providing the
industry's richest array of digital image licensing, rights services,
artist representation and media management, Corbis enables creative
innovation for advertising, corporate marketing and editorial clients.
Corbis is headquartered in Seattle, with 23 offices throughout North
America, Europe, Asia and Australia. |