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Perfect Corp.’s YouCam Apps Unveil Festive Features for Billions of Creative Users News Updates 

Perfect Corp.’s YouCam Apps Unveil Festive Features for Billions of Creative Users

Perfect Corp., a leader in AI and AR-powered beauty and fashion tech solutions and the creator of the YouCam app suite, with more than 1.1 billion downloads worldwide—is celebrating the holiday season with an array of new features. This holiday season, YouCam apps deliver an exciting suite of features tailored to make the holidays more vibrant, creative, and personal: AI... Read More
Claranova reports strong shareholder support for new strategy News 

Claranova reports strong shareholder support for new strategy

Claranova, the parent company of PlanetArt and Avantquest, reported strong shareholder support for it’s new “One Claranova” strategy, following its Dec. 4, general meeting. The company said 41.7% of the shares were represented at the meeting, one of the highest levels in recent years. During this meeting, which took place in a serene atmosphere, Eric Gareau, the recently appointed CEO... Read More
ME Group shows growth in 2024 fiscal year update Earnings reports News 

ME Group shows growth in 2024 fiscal year update

ME Group International plc,  the instant-service equipment group, announced a post-year end trading update for the 12 months ended Oct. 31, 2024. Building on the positive trading momentum throughout the first half of 2024, the group reported continued growth and expects to report FY 2024 as a year of record profit and financial performance in line with the board’s expectations. The... Read More
NRF: 197 million consumers shopped over Thanksgiving holiday weekend Market research News 

NRF: 197 million consumers shopped over Thanksgiving holiday weekend

The five-day holiday weekend from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday saw an estimated 197 million shoppers, according to the annual survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. The figure is the second-highest number in the survey’s history after last year’s record of 200.4 million, and surpassed NRF’s initial expectations of 183.4 million shoppers. “Thanksgiving weekend retains... Read More
Profoto debuts Pro-B3 battery flash New Products News 

Profoto debuts Pro-B3 battery flash

Profoto has introduced the Pro-B3, a 750ws battery flash designed to meet the demands of action and extreme sports photographers. With its heavy-duty casing and industrial-grade components, it is engineered for photographers who capture professional images in the most remote and challenging locations, the company said. “The unique combination of features that the Pro-B3 brings ensures that you will always... Read More
Imaging Solutions AG announces spin-off of silver-halide business to new company, GRETAGX News Partnerships 

Imaging Solutions AG announces spin-off of silver-halide business to new company, GRETAGX

  Imaging Solutions AG (ISAG), the Switzerland-based maker of industrial photo printers and processors for silver halide technology, today announced a strategic initiative to spin off its printer and processor manufacturing and sales division into a new company, GRETAGX. This move aims to expand participation in the post-processing market and strengthen collaboration with the rapidly growing digital printing sector. GRETAGX will... Read More
Stephanie Hayes appointed executive director of School Photographers of America News People on the Move 

Stephanie Hayes appointed executive director of School Photographers of America

The School Photographers of America (SPOA) announced the appointment of Stephanie Hayes as its executive director. With more than a decade of accomplished leadership in nonprofit management, event planning, and community engagement, Hayes joins SPOA with a strong commitment to advancing the organization’s mission of promoting, educating, advocating for, and protecting the traditions of school photography and yearbooks, the organization... Read More
Tamron firmware update enhances AF performance for Sony compatible lens News Updates 

Tamron firmware update enhances AF performance for Sony compatible lens

Tamron announces a new firmware update for the TAMRON 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VC VXD G2 (Model A065) for Sony E-mount. With this new firmware update, AF performance during zooming is improved when shooting videos and still images in AF-C mode. Additionally, with the Sony α9 III, when the focus mode is set to AF-S, DMF, or MF, the lens... Read More
Eastman Kodak prepares to terminate U.S. pension plan Investments News 

Eastman Kodak prepares to terminate U.S. pension plan

Eastman Kodak Co. is preparing to terminate its overfunded U.S. pension plan to unlock value from the fund, according to the Wall Street Journal. The defined-benefit pension has 35,000 participants, and the move could ultimately result in a cash gain of as much as $585 million that Kodak would use to reduce debt and invest in its business, executives said,... Read More
Circana: Consumer electronics holiday outlook highlights mixed signals with opportunity Market research News 

Circana: Consumer electronics holiday outlook highlights mixed signals with opportunity

The 2024 holiday shopping season presents a complex landscape for consumer electronics, with overall tech spending intentions reaching a four-year high despite significant demographic variations and economic concerns, according to a blog post by Paul Gagnon, vice president, industry advisor, Consumer Technology, Mobile, at Circana. The shopping season will be more condensed around the core Black Friday to Christmas Eve... Read More
Captura is the new name for volume photography leader ImageQuix, Fotomerchant, and more Marketing News 

Captura is the new name for volume photography leader ImageQuix, Fotomerchant, and more

The company formerly known as ImageQuix – which through years of various acquisitions acquired numerous brands under the ImageQuix, PhotoLynx, Skylab, Fotomerchant, and Simplephoto labels – has consolidated under a unified brand: Captura. In a press release, the company said this “new name reflects our unified commitment to empowering our customers to Make more—more revenue, more impact, more time—by bringing... Read More
Industry insight: Wall decor outperforms the apparel category in dropshipping e-commerce profit Market research News 

Industry insight: Wall decor outperforms the apparel category in dropshipping e-commerce profit

Data released by print-on-demand (POD) company merchOne reveals wall art offers e-commerce sellers using dropshipping services a significantly higher profit margin compared to apparel, allowing them to earn more per sale. After analyzing more than 311,000 orders users have sold using merchOne’s dropshipping service, the company discovered that wall art has an average profit margin of 74%, compared to 60% for... Read More
Eastman Kodak pausing film manufacturing to modernize equipment News 

Eastman Kodak pausing film manufacturing to modernize equipment

Citing increasing demand and the need to modernize its production factories, Eastman Kodak Co. temporarily paused all film production this month at its factory in Rochester, N.Y., according to company executives during last week’s quarterly earnings call. “Our film sales have increased in motion picture and in still film and other films. So on film, right, we’re doing a shutdown... Read More
Venus Optics releases 60mm S35 1:2 Macro Anamorphic Lens News 

Venus Optics releases 60mm S35 1:2 Macro Anamorphic Lens

Venus Optics presents the first 60mm 1:2 Macro Anamorphic lens for S35 sensors – Nanomorph 60mm T2.9 1.5X S35 Macro 1:2. This lens offers a close focus distance of up to 24cm/9.45” and produces a 0.5x magnified image, breaking through previous technological constraints and surpassing lenses in the market of similar focal lengths. The US price for the Laowa Nanomorph 60mm... Read More
Advertek commemorates 25th anniversary, move to expanded facility Acquisitions Feature News 

Advertek commemorates 25th anniversary, move to expanded facility

Advertek Inc. recently commemorated its 25th anniversary and its move to its single 77,000-square-foot facility with an open house celebration attended by business leaders, vendor partners, and customers. In June, Advertek announced the acquisition of Custom Colour Imaging (CCI), a Toronto-based photo lab and print-on-demand company. As part of the acquisition, Advertek’s corporate offices, Print on Demand, Small and Large... Read More