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Gary Pageau is principal of InfoCircle LLC, continuing his marketing communications career. InfoCircle LLC is a marketing and communications consulting firm, specializing in business-to-business markets. For nearly 25 years, he was with PMA International, serving most recently as Publisher, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives. His primary responsibilities included overseeing the Association’s editorial department, marketing research unit, education and corporate relations department.

Glossy Finish to license GF Crew technology platform News 

Glossy Finish to license GF Crew technology platform

Sports and event photography company Glossy Finish announced it has begun offering its full technology platform for those photographers that want to grow their business photographing tournaments in a similar way as Glossy Finish. The current GF Crew app offering, popular among weekend photographers and pros, will remain. The company said the GF Crew/Pro platform is the same model used... Read More
Kodak photo paper and chemicals fade from the market News 

Kodak photo paper and chemicals fade from the market

Sino Promise Group, the China-based maker of Kodak-branded photographic paper and chemicals for professional and amateur photofinishing, notified customers the company will “no longer be offering” the products, according to correspondence provided to the Dead Pixels Society. Sino Promise has not responded to requests for comment. Unconfirmed reports from photo labs say the sales team has already been dismissed. The... Read More
Profoto’s first-quarter sales up 16.5 percent; organic growth flat News 

Profoto’s first-quarter sales up 16.5 percent; organic growth flat

Swedish lighting company Profoto said first-quarter net sales totaled SEK 229 million (compared to 196 million), an increase of 16.5 percent. Organic growth totaled 0.0 percent, the currency effect was 7.3 percent, and the effect of acquisitions was 9.1 percent. Key ratios, Group Jan–Mar 2023 Jan–Mar 2022 Apr 2022– Mar 2023 Full year 2022 Net sales, SEKm 229 196 880... Read More
Shutterfly appoints Sally Pofcher as CEO People on the Move 

Shutterfly appoints Sally Pofcher as CEO

U.S. photo personalization giant Shutterfly announced experienced retail executive Sally Pofcher has joined the privately-held company as Chief Executive Officer. Hilary Schneider, Shutterfly’s CEO since 2019, will transition to a strategic advisor to the Company’s Board of Directors, the company said in a statement. Pofcher joins the Shutterfly executive team with more than 30 years of experience in growing and... Read More
White Wall debuts fine art prints laminated on Alu-Dibond News 

White Wall debuts fine art prints laminated on Alu-Dibond

High-end photo lab WhiteWall debuted fine-art prints on Alu-Dibon, featuring high-resolution and solvent-free fine art prints on four papers available from Hahnemühle and Canson. The stable Alu-Dibond backing is particularly suitable for very large formats and is, therefore, the best choice for special presentations, the company said. This product does not need glass or acrylic sealing, so offers a clear... Read More
Third ImagingExecutives@PHOTOPIA set for Sept. 20 News 

Third ImagingExecutives@PHOTOPIA set for Sept. 20

C.A.T.-Publishing Thomas Bloemer GmbH announced the third ImagingExecutives@PHOTOPIA conference, taking place Sept. 20, 2023, in the Chicago room of the Hamburg exhibition center. To avoid conflict with the main PHOTOPIA Hamburg event, the executive conference will be held a day prior to the Sept. 21-23 run dates of the show. Event organizer Thomas Bloemer advises the event will run from 9:00... Read More
Felix Schoeller Photo Award winners announced Events News 

Felix Schoeller Photo Award winners announced

This year’s winners of the Felix Schoeller Photo Award were announced at a ceremony in Osnabrück on May 4. Alain Schroeder (Belgium) won in the “Photojournalism” category with his work “Muay Thai Kids”, the “Sustainability” prize went to the Italian photographer Simone Tramonte for his series “New ways to the future” and the popular prize in the “Portrait” category went... Read More
Creating community with a camera store, with Mark Comon, Paul’s Photo Podcasts 

Creating community with a camera store, with Mark Comon, Paul’s Photo

Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talked with Mark Comon, Paul’s Photo and Creative Photo Academy, Torrance, Calif. In this interview, Comon talks about being a second-generation camera store owner, building relationships in a community, and using creativity as Paul’s Photo in Torrance, Calif., which has been an area fixture since company founder Paul Comon started selling cameras in 1961. Today, the store offers top... Read More
SPOA adds Bambee as HR partner News 

SPOA adds Bambee as HR partner

School Photographers of America (SPOA) announces a partnership with Bambee, a leading U.S. human resources company providing small businesses the ability to simplify human resource management by automating HR tasks and providing a dedicated HR Manager to navigate employee and business compliance complexities. Bambee’s features go beyond essential HR management and payroll processing. Bambee helps businesses comply with HR regulations... Read More
Register now for the Creative Path seminar Events News 

Register now for the Creative Path seminar

The Dead Pixels Society presents “The Creative Path,” an innovative webinar showing how harnessing creativity can drive your business. As the business has grown more transactional, it’s imperative to counterbalance that instinct with creative and emotional thought. In the coming Imagination Age, where creativity is the new currency, the only avenue of true connection is on an emotive level—a position... Read More
Emerald Holding reports 17% year-over-year organic revenue News 

Emerald Holding reports 17% year-over-year organic revenue

Emerald Holding, Inc., America’s largest producer of trade shows and their associated conferences including WPPI, reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023. The company reported revenues of $122.3 million for the first quarter 2023, an increase of $23.8 million, or 24.2%, primarily on growth in events that staged in both Q1 2023 and Q1 2022, and... Read More
Mediaclip adds new product line from Tracer Imaging New Products Partnerships 

Mediaclip adds new product line from Tracer Imaging

Mediaclip announced the addition of both in-store retail and fulfillment wall décor product lines from Tracer Imaging LLC. This product line includes the new TilePix Frames and TilePix Corning Gorilla Glass panels which use an innovative self-adhesive “Stick&Slide” magnetic wall hanging system that enables consumers to easily display their wall art without the need for nails or screws. With the... Read More